featured artists: Lucy Smallbone

British

The paintings by emerging artist Lucy Smallbone move between depicting both an ideal and uninhabitable place. The landscapes seem as though they are in a state of flux, an embryonic state that has not fully formed allowing for a fluid painterly reality to come to the fore.

From afar the paint marks appear as vegetation but the closer you get to the image the more they disintegrate into spots and splurges of colour. Certain marks give a feeling of being underwater or being in a place without air, especially the fluid un-naturalistic gestures that dance around the surface flattening the space behind them. The use of acrylic paint has helped this as the dead, matt colours make a synthetic surface that has deadening spatial qualities.

Education:
2007-2010       City and Guilds Painting BA 1st Class Hons
2006-2007       Falmouth and Exeter University Art and Design Diploma

Group Exhibitions:
2011           Art Shop Cooperative, London
                   The Creek Gallery, Newbury
                   The Catlin Guide Launch at London Art Fair
2010           City and Guilds Degree Show, London
2009           Interim show at Degree Art, Vyner Street, London

2008           The Electrician’s Shop, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

Awards:
2010           The Haworth Trust Award for Painting
2009           The David Ballardie Travel Award

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