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Our new exhibition starts on 18th Sept. featuring the varied and beautifully coloured work of Stephanie Wilkinson.
Influences
Stephanie is passionate about colour. Born in the north east of Brazil to British parents, she was surrounded by vibrant buildings, palm-fringed beaches, and almost constant sunshine. Years later she lived across the world in beautiful Indonesia, absorbing the visual language of batiks and intricate woodcarvings amid a backdrop of islands, jungles and volcanoes, contrasting with crowded cities and villages full of life. These influences have combined with a love for European expressionist and cubist art, Japanese woodblock printing, William Morris, and Josef Frank flavours to arrive at a style rich in colour and expression. Stephanie has a studio in Teddington, West London.
Exhibitions & Press
Stephanie’s work receives regular press, blog and exhibiting interest, including shows at London’s Barbican Library, Mall Galleries, the Brazilian Embassy, and The Lightbox Gallery and WWF in Woking, Surrey. She is a member of the Fountain Gallery artist gallery in Hampton Court and her latest painting will appear in the World of Interiors magazine in the October 2020 print edition.
Themes
For over 25 years her recurring themes have been Interiors, Still Life, Travel and Women. She usually works in acrylic paint on canvas for large work and Promarker pens for smaller graphic works on paper. These translate beautifully into products for the home: soft vegan suede cushions, heat resistant melamine placemats and coasters, blank greeting cards, fine art prints, and kitchen textiles. These are produced in the UK and are of the highest quality. The work shown here includes a group of paintings produced as an expression of motherhood and the home. Their loose semi-abstract style hints at mixed and contradictory, confused feelings surrounding the role that is common to many. Hence the title of one of them as ‘Woman in Chaos’. The aprons and oven gloves pick up the theme as her literal ‘to do’ list, making visible the often-invisible nature of the work performed in the home. Many women chime with this and they make good presents.
Still Life paintings are also a favourite theme and these are mostly painted from imagination, with some reference to objects seen at home or on her travels.
Stephanie is passionate about colour. Born in the north east of Brazil to British parents, she was surrounded by vibrant buildings, palm-fringed beaches, and almost constant sunshine. Years later she lived across the world in beautiful Indonesia, absorbing the visual language of batiks and intricate woodcarvings amid a backdrop of islands, jungles and volcanoes, contrasting with crowded cities and villages full of life. These influences have combined with a love for European expressionist and cubist art, Japanese woodblock printing, William Morris, and Josef Frank flavours to arrive at a style rich in colour and expression. Stephanie has a studio in Teddington, West London.
Exhibitions & Press
Stephanie’s work receives regular press, blog and exhibiting interest, including shows at London’s Barbican Library, Mall Galleries, the Brazilian Embassy, and The Lightbox Gallery and WWF in Woking, Surrey. She is a member of the Fountain Gallery artist gallery in Hampton Court and her latest painting will appear in the World of Interiors magazine in the October 2020 print edition.
Themes
For over 25 years her recurring themes have been Interiors, Still Life, Travel and Women. She usually works in acrylic paint on canvas for large work and Promarker pens for smaller graphic works on paper. These translate beautifully into products for the home: soft vegan suede cushions, heat resistant melamine placemats and coasters, blank greeting cards, fine art prints, and kitchen textiles. These are produced in the UK and are of the highest quality. The work shown here includes a group of paintings produced as an expression of motherhood and the home. Their loose semi-abstract style hints at mixed and contradictory, confused feelings surrounding the role that is common to many. Hence the title of one of them as ‘Woman in Chaos’. The aprons and oven gloves pick up the theme as her literal ‘to do’ list, making visible the often-invisible nature of the work performed in the home. Many women chime with this and they make good presents.
Still Life paintings are also a favourite theme and these are mostly painted from imagination, with some reference to objects seen at home or on her travels.
