VICTORIA ANNE COLLIS
VICTORIA ANNE COLLIS
ABOUT
"I am a painter and printmaker residing in rural Somerset, UK, with early childhood memories of making potato prints with my mother, sisters and brother. This is where I found a love for the expression that making art provides. My first steps into education began at a Convent School. I furthered my creative aptitude by graduating with a BA Honours degree in Creative Arts from Bath Spa University, School of Art and Design. I began my Masters degree in Fine Art, specialising in Printmaking at Aberystwyth University in 2019.
It was during this transient time that my work began to reflect and become inspired by the changing and varied landscapes that I travelled through, resulting in works spanning the British, Welsh and Canadian landscapes.
For me, being an artist is a never-ending journey communicating with my own rhythms, and channelling these feelings onto paper. My work can be described as instinctive, free, gestural, semi-abstract, and figurative. I have chosen mono printing as my preferred technique, as it captures my painterly lines and mark making, in a very immediate and spontaneous way, allowing me to work freely and intuitively.
Like all good images, my prints have a lyrical narrative which descends from the Romantic school – everything stems from nature. This I share with fellow kindred spirits – Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, W.B. Yeats, Alfred Tennyson and Joni Mitchell
Her work is instinctual, free, gestural, semi-abstract, figurative and partly from her subconscious; from what she sees around her; the external environment and her internal environment. Her work is connected to the spirit of nature, the stars, trees, sea, sun and sky.
It was during this transient time that my work began to reflect and become inspired by the changing and varied landscapes that I travelled through, resulting in works spanning the British, Welsh and Canadian landscapes.
For me, being an artist is a never-ending journey communicating with my own rhythms, and channelling these feelings onto paper. My work can be described as instinctive, free, gestural, semi-abstract, and figurative. I have chosen mono printing as my preferred technique, as it captures my painterly lines and mark making, in a very immediate and spontaneous way, allowing me to work freely and intuitively.
Like all good images, my prints have a lyrical narrative which descends from the Romantic school – everything stems from nature. This I share with fellow kindred spirits – Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, W.B. Yeats, Alfred Tennyson and Joni Mitchell
Her work is instinctual, free, gestural, semi-abstract, figurative and partly from her subconscious; from what she sees around her; the external environment and her internal environment. Her work is connected to the spirit of nature, the stars, trees, sea, sun and sky.
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