About Me

 


Awards

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

Media


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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.

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


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Exhibitions:

2024: ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. 15-24 November.
2024: Art for Youth, Mall Galleries, London. 5-8 November.
2024: The Flux Review 'Creative Souls' Exhibition (virtual). 7 Oct to 7 Jan '25.
2024: Teravarna 11th Open, Los Angeles, California. September. Awarded 'Honourable Mention'.
2024: Artizan Gallery, English Riviera Summer Exhibition, Devon. Jul-Sept.
2024: Pensychnant Conservation Open Exhibition. Conwy. July to September.
2024: Selected, Colour Show, Open Art Spaces, Notting Hill London. June.
2024: Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition, London. June. 
2024: Selected, 'Feline-Thropic'. May-Jun.
2024: 'Spring Awakening', F.Y.S. May.
2024: Artizan Womens Open, Devon.  May-Jun.
2024: St Ives Society of Artists. Apr-Jun.
2024: White Chalk Gallery. 4-20 Apr.
2024: St Ives Arts Club.  Mar-Apr.
2024: Society of Graphic Fine Art (The Drawing Society), Mall Galleries, London. March.

2023: St Ives Society of Artists. Nov-Jan '24.
2023: Highgate Contemporary Art, (online).Nov.
2023: Art For Youth, Mall Galleries, London. Oct.
2023: St Ives Arts Club. Sept.
2023: Highgate Contemporary Art, London. Aug.
2023: Shortlisted, Women in Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London. September.
2023: Penwith Gallery, St Ives. Jul/Aug.
2023: New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London. Jun/Jul.
2023: Highgate Contemporary Art, (online). May.

2022: Highgate Contemporary Art, Postcard Exhibition, online. Nov.
2022: Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London. September.
2022: New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London. June.
2022: Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London. March.

2021: Penwith Gallery, St. Ives. Nov/Dec.
2021: Highgate Contemporary Art, online. November.
2021: Ferens Open, Kingston Upon Hull. Jul/Oct.
2021: Greta Williams Room (Solo), St Ives Library, Cornwall. July.
2021: Highgate Contemporary Art, online. May.
2021: Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London. April.

2020: Greta Williams Room: June.
2020: York, Rowntree Park, 'Notes from York: Rowntree Park Musings', February.

2015: Shortlisted, Pastel Society Exhibition 2016, Mall Galleries London.

Publications:
2024: The Artist Magazine, 'How to Paint a Still Life in Oils', December.
2024: Painters Online, 'TV On? Sketchbook Out!', December.
2024: Leisure Painter, 'Gallery Highlights'. September issue.
2023: Feature, Life Magazine (London Editions, August)
2022: Behind The Artist, Interview
2022: Conde Nast House & Garden 'Art Edit'

Education:
2023: Art Academy London. Portraiture Masterclass (2-day)
2023: Heatherleys School of Fine Art, Chelsea, London. Painting Day Course
20011-12: University of York, MA History of Architecture
2008-11: University of York, BA History of Art (1st Class)
2000: Matric Painting Final Year Exhibition, Cape Town, S.A. (Distinction)

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