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Mary West

Mary’s paintings have the energy of abstract expressionists like DeKooning or Kline, but channeled through the landscape tradition. Her paintings generate space through color and suggested terrain. Her Rococo color pallet combined with lose impressions of natural features evoke the fantasy worlds of Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Thomas Gainsborough, who often blended nature with romantic or pastoral scenes. Mary describes her work subjectively as memories of places and shared encounters and so the light and color of Mary’s paintings feel like a fantastic dream.

Country
United Kingdom
Discipline
Painting

Available works

All Available Work

Education

BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art 1998-2002

ARTIST STATEMENT​

My paintings explore light, space and texture through landscape. Blurring the lines between abstract and figurative painting, memories of landscape inspire every composition. Each painting is an emotional response to a place and shared encounters. I work in oils, allowing the paint to take on a life of its own through chance accidents and gestural mark making. I paint quickly and intuitively, creating a sense of movement while building layers.