Landscape Artist, from St Ives, Cornwall

Bridget’s recent paintings are essentially landscapes, but the images are drawn from memories of walks and journeys, and imagination. This allows her to focus on and enjoy materials with more freedom, letting paint, media and surface lead the process, creating richly textural surfaces. She is looking to create a sense of ambiguity, movement, contrast and drama in the paintings. Figurative elements are taken from old family photographs and formal portraits.

Photo by Caroline Allard Photography

Biography
Studied Fine Art at Ipswich School of Art and Brighton College of Art
Porthmeor Programme, St Ives School of Painting, from 2015 to 2018

Exhibitions
Winner of British Rail Spirit of East Anglia national drawing competition
1984 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1988 Association of Illustrators Exhibition, Alexandra Palace, London
1991 Solo show, Adam Gallery, London
2016 Porthmeor Programme, The Crypt Gallery St Ives
2017 Sloop Winter Exhibition, The Sloop, St Ives
2017 Seven, Crypt Gallery, St Ives
2018 Porthmeor Programme, Penwith Society of Arts Gallery, St Ives
2018 Sloop Summer Exhibition, The Sloop, St Ives
2018 Reflections: Seeing Nature in a New Light, Morvah Schoolhouse, St Ives
2018 Associate Members Summer Exhibition, Penwith Society of Arts
2019 May Cornwall Open Studios
2019 Environments, Tate St Ives staff exhibition, Tate St Ives
2019 December Landscape solo exhibition, Greta Williams Room, St Ives Library
2020 April/May Rare Earth: paintings in collaboration with scientific research in Antarctica: Environmental and Sustainability Institute (Exeter University), Penryn Campus, Falmouth
2020 May Cornwall Open Studios
2021 Catalyst, online exhibition by Creative Exchange Environmental and Sustainability Institute (Exeter University)