About Me

Awards

• Honourable Mention, Teravarna 'Color', Los Angeles. 2024
• Honourable Mention, Teravarna 11th Open, Los Angeles. 2024

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

Hello and welcome. I’m Ingrid, a figurative & plein-air fine artist living in West Cornwall. I love life. I love the experience of being alive - it is a precious gift. Art allows me to express this, and to learn about myself.

I'm often drawn to quiet, everyday scenes, favourite objects and the experience of being fully immersed in nature. I love capturing these things in paint. Light plays a big part in all my work, whether figurative or landscape. Light - or the lack of it - really changes things, and this energy between light, form, presence and atmosphere underpins much of my work.

My portraiture typically engages with contemplative moments and quiet times, and my more formal pieces are usually set within a simple composition. 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.

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

Inspiration really is everywhere for me. I find great interest in 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. They all relate to my life, the things I use, see, enjoy, and live with.

My compositions usually show a simple background or a limited palette, aligning with the mood of the subject matter.

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 traditional media: pencil, watercolour, pastel and charcoal. I've exhibited at London's Chelsea Art Society, Mall Galleries, St Ives Cornwall and commercial galleries across the UK.

My work hangs 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.