Abigail’s work is concerned with memory and loss as she attempts to capture the emotional “edge of the rainbow”, where reality and imagination mingle. Conjuring up ghostly shapes that float in and out of our consciousness, she creates each piece by adding layer upon layer of volatile, emotionally-charged paint. Often the canvas is flipped and turned creating amorphous, ethereal shapes that are without boundary and appear to hum, float and breathe in the changing light.
Working without sketches, Abigail paints directly onto the canvas hoping to capture undiluted, the essence of the emotion. This means that every painting contains the ideas, frustrations, happiness and history of the process that created it. For this reason, she has chosen not to produce prints of her paintings, preferring that each piece remains a unique, autonomous object in its own right.
Abigail was born in Brighton and graduated in Fine Art (Painting) in 1996 from Chelsea College of Art. She is represented in London by the Hicks Gallery, Dar-le and the Bear in Woodstock and shows regularly in Sussex. She now ives in Brighton.
Read more about the artist here
Working without sketches, Abigail paints directly onto the canvas hoping to capture undiluted, the essence of the emotion. This means that every painting contains the ideas, frustrations, happiness and history of the process that created it. For this reason, she has chosen not to produce prints of her paintings, preferring that each piece remains a unique, autonomous object in its own right.
Abigail was born in Brighton and graduated in Fine Art (Painting) in 1996 from Chelsea College of Art. She is represented in London by the Hicks Gallery, Dar-le and the Bear in Woodstock and shows regularly in Sussex. She now ives in Brighton.
Read more about the artist here
