c o n t e m p o r a r y l a n d s c a p e s
Artist Statement
My inspiration is experience of landscape, an individual response to time and space. I am often reflective, finding solitary places emotional and providing me with time for thought.
Working with rough sketches and written notes made in the field, and often merging them together with half remembered landscapes and thoughts, these build into final works in the studio.
The work includes no human form or construction although lines worked may conceivably follow lines of some connection.
Many layers of paint and drawn media can be built up and removed in an ever changing image before it resolves itself to a piece that I feel has something to say.
Titles of my works often reflect the thoughts behind or beside the work, rather than having direct connection with what you see, thereby giving you an open page to fill with your own thoughts. A title as a starting point for you to have your own experience with the work.
“The viewer is left with an undeniable sense of being a bystander to nature, a spectator to its force and unpredictability. In her observations and execution, Zoe gives us a heightened reality and a very real feeling of movement and transience. An aesthetic celebrating the temporary alongside the ancient delivers works of commanding strength and attraction.’
- Howard Clegg, The Stratford Gallery exhibition catalogue 2017.
“Stormy, moody, calm and peaceful. We each seek and find our own place within them”.
- Sonia Pang, Gallery at Home ’In Other Skies’ exhibition 2019
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Biography
Born in 1957 in Staffordshire, England, Zoe’s artistic focus has always been landscape. She has an affinity with wild, wide views and infinite skies.
She renewed her love of paint following a City & Guilds textile course in the 1990’s where one of her tutors was an important influence.
Greatly encouraged by winning an RBSA Open painting award for her whole submission at the start of her painting career, she has gone from strength to strength and has been offered annual solo exhibitions at several galleries from 2017 onwards.
Her work is exhibited at various galleries throughout the UK and is held in private collections around the world.
Exhibitions 2023
Spring Tide - Livingstone St Ives, Clifton, Bristol April
AAF Battersea (with The Stratford Gallery) March
Selected Exhibitions 2013 - 2022
2022
Single person show The Stratford Gallery August 13
AAF Battersea (with The Stratford Gallery) March 10-13
Backdrop to Akiko Hirai and Ania Perkowska - Bevere Gallery - Feb
2021
Same Difference with Nik Taylor - Gallery at Home - November
The Landscape - Twenty Twenty Gallery - October
SEA - Portside Gallery - 25 Invited Artists - Sept
AAF Battersea ( with The Stratford Gallery) July
From Day to Day - Solo Show - The Stratford Gallery -July
2020
Christmas Show - Twenty Twenty - Winter
Hidden Gems - Gallery at Home - Winter
Ongoing : Pause - Solo Show The Stratford Gallery - Autumn
Conversations - Twenty Twenty Gallery - April
2019
In Other Skies - Solo Show Gallery at Home - October
Earthbound Skies - The Stratford Gallery -August
2018
The Stratford Gallery - Winter Exhibition
Boughton House, Lovelock Millar Gallery - December
Winter Landscapes - Twenty Twenty Gallery - Winter The Hampshire Art Fair Nadia Waterfield Fine Art - October
Featured Artist Bevere Gallery- Worcester - Autumn
SKY - Solo Show Stratford Gallery - August
Coast I and II, Twenty Twenty Gallery - June
Coast and Gardens NGS Open Garden - June
Fountain Fine Art, Llandeilo - (with Seren Bell) - May
The Lion Street Gallery - Mixed Exhibition - February
2017
The Stratford Gallery - Winter
Purple Gallery - seasonal show
Fountain Fine Art - Winter Group Show
Bevere Gallery for WOS - August
EXPANSE - Solo Show Stratford Gallery - August
Coast and Gardens NGS Open Garden
Purple Gallery - seasonal shows
2016
The Stratford Gallery - opening exhibition - November
'Glimmer' Little Buckland Gallery - Nov
'Coast and Gardens' NGS Open Garden - Jun
Broadway Open, Little Buckland Gallery
Stratford Art Fair - May
Purple Gallery - seasonal shows
2015
RWA Bristol 163 Open - Oct
Purple Gallery - seasonal shows
'A Sense of Place' Art Barn, Henley in Arden
Bevere Gallery - supporting ceramics Graduate Show
2014
Purple Gallery - Seasonal Shows
RBSA Friends - Autumn
RBSA Friends - Spring
2013
Purple Gallery - seasonal shows
RBSA Open All Media
RBSA Friends - Autumn
RBSA Prize
Bevere Show - supporting Ceramics Now
RBSA Open All Media - Spring
RBSA Friends - Spring
2012
RBSA Open All Media - Winter
RBSA Friends - Autumn
Toad House Open Studio
Gallery Representation
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N.B.
galleries may not have any of my work available so please contact myself or them before making a special journey
awards
2016
Broadway Arts Festival Open
- Very Highly Commended
2013
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
- Spring Friends Exhibition Highly Commended (whole submission)
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
- Autumn Friends Exhibition Highly Commended (whole submission)
2012
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize - Friends Exhibition