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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Mirror
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Tower block
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Brushstrokes
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Square
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Cross
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Vent
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Panel
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Pipes
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 40cm.
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Stavanake
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Rock
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 30cm.
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Puddle
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Shed
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 40cm.
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Snow satellite
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Platform
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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Spider II
Acrylic paint and collage on artist's board
size: 30 x 20cm.
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