About Me

Selected works available at Riverside Gallery Barnes, London.

Media

• Artter New York, 'Meet the Artist' Feature, Instagram. September.
• Saatchi Art, Artist Featured in a Collection' 2024
• The Artist, 'How To Paint a Still Life in Oils', December 2024 (online & print)
• Leisure Painter, Gallery Feature, September 2024
• Feature, Life Magazine (London Editions, August), 2023
• Interview, Behind The Artist, 2022
• Conde Nast House & Garden Art Edit, 2022

I’m Ingrid, a figurative & plein-air fine artist living in West Cornwall. I'm often attracted to capturing subject matter which embodies quiet, powerful energy and composition, and I love the experience of painting or drawing while fully immersed in nature.

Something which appears calm and serene, but has a sense of dynamism and 'bristling' just below the surface - whether a landscape or figurative composition - is irresistible to me and I often need to capture this very quickly before the feeling is lost, only later developing it during subsequent sessions if necessary.

Light - or the lack of it - really changes our perception of, and feeling towards things, and the dynamic between light, form, presence, mood and atmosphere underpins much of my practice.

My portraiture typically engages with deeper contemplative moments and quiet times. Although I don’t intentionally ‘direct’ viewers to a particular message in my work, I hope others may connect with, and relate to, these special fleeting moments and experiences which we all share as part of our human experience.

My land and seascapes focus on the light, colours, atmosphere, and feel of a place, experienced during times of self-reflection.

Inspiration is everywhere for me. I find great interest in people, animals - and things which I often look at absentmindedly in the home, while drifting off or absorbed in other matters. It could be a stuffed animal, a pile of towels, cushions, the living room sofa, anything - that comprises an intriguing composition or group of impactful forms. My eye is frequently caught by a scene in which I can see a kind of pattern or design, perhaps in the shape of someone's profile formed by their tensed or relaxed muscles, a striking composition in nature, or a section of an interior. I see patterns and shapes in many things.

I enjoy experimenting with composition within the confines of the canvas or support I am painting on, as I attempt to arrange subject matter in a simple yet striking aesthetic.

I specialise in oils and love working with all traditional media: graphite, watercolour, pastel and charcoal. I've exhibited with various societies at London's Mall Galleries, as well as Hampstead Art Society, Chelsea Art Society, in St Ives Cornwall and commercial galleries across the UK.

My work is held in private collections throughout the UK, Europe and in the US. I have donated pieces of art to the Art for Youth Charity in London, the Edward Hain Centre in St Ives, and also St Michael's Hospital in Hayle, Cornwall.

I welcome commissions, please contact me to discuss.

I hope you enjoy looking at my work, thanks for visiting.

• Hampstead Art Society 'Works on Paper'. Online. December.
• Sou'Sou' West Gallery, Dorset. 16 Nov-6 Dec.
• ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. 15-24 November.
• Art for Youth, Mall Galleries, London. 5-8 November.
• The Flux Review 'Creative Souls' Exhibition (virtual). 7 Oct to 7 Jan '25.
• Teravarna 11th Open, Los Angeles, California. September. Awarded 'Honourable Mention'.
• Artizan Gallery, English Riviera Summer Exhibition, Devon. Jul-Sept.
• Pensychnant Conservation Open Exhibition. Conwy, Wales. July to September.
• Selected, Colour Show, Open Art Spaces, Notting Hill London. June.
• Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition, London. June. 
• Selected, 'Feline-Thropic'. May-Jun.
• 'Spring Awakening', F.Y.S. May.
• Artizan Womens Open, Devon.  May-Jun.
• St Ives Society of Artists. Apr-Jun.
• White Chalk Gallery. 4-20 Apr.
• St Ives Arts Club.  Mar-Apr.
  Society of Graphic Fine Art (The Drawing Society), Mall Galleries, London. March.