Short Bio

UK painter, love turquoise. Often inspired by architecture.

Statement

I paint townscapes in acrylic or oil. Cities are generally busy and overpopulated places. They’re somewhere many of us pass through and rarely stop to look. But many years ago I started to do just that. To stop and look at my surroundings, and what I saw surprised me. They’re invariably beautiful places, and at the right time of day they transform completely. My paintings are an attempt to look beyond the fast pace of life and contemplate the beauty of the built environment.

Most of my painting is done in the UK. The light here is soft and the period buildings which I’m attracted to are weathered. Those features have certainly influenced my palette, but also by removing the qualities that assault the senses I’m inviting people to relax and to see the urban environment in a new way.

I mix my own gesso surface using the traditional method, applying the mixture in layers. This is an integral part of my painting process both mentally and creatively, and just as enjoyable and as important as the painting itself.

Biography

In 2014 Camilla won ‘Artist of the Year’ in Artists & Illustrators Magazine, followed in 2015 by a solo exhibition of new work at the Jonathan Cooper Gallery in London. She won the ‘Chairman’s Prize’ at the Discerning Eye Exhibition in 2017 and in 2018, and the ‘Neil Meacher RI Award for an ‘Outstanding Watercolour’ at the 206th annual exhibition of the RI of Painters in Watercolours in 2018.She's been invited to exhibit at the Mall Galleries by the art collector and critic John Penrose and has appeared on ‘Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year’.