About

Originally from North Yorkshire, Trish gained a degree in Fine Art Printmaking at Sheffield Hallam in 1983. Her career as an artist spans over thirty years and she has worked in film, photography, performance/spoken word, text, installation, 3D. Her focus now is on painting, printmaking and 3D work.

 

Paintings

Trish’s paintings are in response to the natural environment and she uses oils, acrylics, oil sticks, pencil and charcoal and to create rich layers of colour, marks, and textures. Trish’s work depicts different environments and also captures a ‘sense’ of them, such as changing light, weather, atmosphere and movement.

 

I also represent internal imagined spaces, which I often find and move into when in nature. One painting can incorporate different places, views, times and memory and reflect the sense of moving within landscapes, woodlands and valleys.

Sculptures

Trish’s sculptures of figures, birds and structures explore the fragility and vulnerability of the environment, and hence ourselves, evoking a sense of things being out of kilter and unbalanced…things toppling.

Each sculpture is created in a process of piecing together different materials collected and found. They are not planned beforehand…I begin, and they slowly emerge instinctively. They incorporate family heirlooms and objects and are made from an assemblage of materials that come to hand in my studio. Making something out of seemingly nothing. I believe they reflect how many of us are trying to piece things together, make sense of things, how we are often making things up as we go along.

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