About

Celia’s paintings were previously predominantly based on the landscape around Niton on the Isle of Wight, having lived in the area for many years, but during the last few years have also reflected her travels to various countries.

She avoids immediate visual representations and paints from memory, enabling her to capture the essence of a time and place, but Celia likes to give the viewer something to contemplate and adds her emotional attachment to that place.

Her influences include Patrick Heron, Paul Nash, Ivon Hitchins, Peter Lanyon, Paul Klee and Picasso among a host of others. These artists, she feels, have broken traditions of landscape painting with their very individual styles. She too is interested in the process of deconstructing the landscape and piecing it back together, so from a distance it is partly recognisable but the closer you get, the more it becomes about the painting process – drawing the viewer in to a riotous world of marks, textures and colour.

Celia attended Central School of Art for her Foundation and went on to take her BA (Hons) Fine Art at St Martin’s School of Art, London. She lived and worked in London until 2001 when she moved to the Isle of Wight.

EDUCATION AND EXHIBITIONS
History of Design – Brighton College of Art – 1981-82
Foundation – Central School of Art – 1985-86
BA Hons Fine Art Painting – St Martins School of Art – 1986-89
Undertook several commissions while raising family 1989-97
Leased studio in Camberwell 1997 and has been painting full time ever since.
Moved to the Isle of Wight in 2001 where she lives and works.

EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
1998
Royal Academy Summer Show
Sun and Doves, London

1999
Tate Bankside, Bankside Browser, London
Blue Elephant Theatre, London
Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, London

2000
Chase, Royal College of Art, London
Candid Arts Trust, Islington, London
Wills Art Warehouse, London

2000-2010
Affordable Art Fair with Wills Art Warehouse (London, Glasgow, Bath, Bristol, Sydney)

2000-2012
Karen Taylor Contemporary Art, London

2001
The Corporate Connoisseurs, Conigsby Gallery, London

2002
Chase Art, Cornwall
Luscious Conceptions, Windsor

2003-2015
Kendall’s Fine Art, Cowes, Isle of Wight

2003-2010
The Wonderwall Gallery, Cirencester

2002
Artclimbers, Suffolk

2003
Solo Show, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight

2003-2010
Pantiles Edge Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

2003
Homes and Gardens, Earls Court, London

2004-6
Regular galleries and Art Fairs

2006
Commission of eight paintings for St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight

2007-10
Regular galleries and Art Fairs

2010-2012
Took two years from exhibiting to develop painting further

2011
Karen Taylor Contemporary Art, London

2012
Started as Art Director for Hillside, Isle of Wight
Hillside, Ventnor, Isle of Wight
Brighton Art Fair
2013 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Solo Show, Red Earth Gallery, Devon
Moncrieff Bray Gallery, Petworth
The Art Café, Whitby, Yorkshire
Open Studios, Isle of Wight
Fulham Art Fair, London
Brighton Art Fair
Webbs Fine Art, London
Hillside, Ventnor, Isle of Wight
Isle of Arts Festival, Isle of Wight
Bembridge Sailing Club, Isle of Wight

2014
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The Art Café, Whitby, Yorkshire
Hillside, Ventnor, Isle of Wight
Isle of Arts Festival, Isle of Wight
Open Studios, Depozitory, Isle of Wight
Foal Arts Salon, Depozitory, Isle of Wight
Webbs Fine Art, London
Clifton Fine Art, Bristol
Winter Salon, Depozitory, Isle of Wight

2015
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
Frames Gallery, Perth, Scotland
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford
Oil and Water Gallery, Wandsworth
SEEART Fair, Kent. Claremont Gallery
Foal Arts Summer Salon, Depozitory, Isle of Wight
Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford
Beaux Arts Bembridge, Isle of Wight
Binnel Studios Open Weekend, Isle of Wight
Cambridge Art Fair, Robert Fogell Gallery

2016
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford
Claremont Gallery, Sevenoaks
Solo Show, No Naked Walls, Chertsey
Byard Art, Cambridge
Binnel Studios 2nd Summer Exhibition

2017
No Naked Walls, Bramley
Claremont Contemporary Art Gallery, Sevenoaks
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford
Byard Art Gallery, Cambridge

2018
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford
No Naked Walls, Bramley
Claremont Contemporary Art, Sevenoaks
Tiny Gallery, Henley on Thames
John Noott Gallery, Broadway
Gallery 6, Newark
Wills Art Warehouse, London
Binnel Studios

2019
Robert Fogell Gallery
No Naked Walls Gallery
Wills Art Warehouse
Gallery 6
John Noott Gallery
Claremont Contemporary Art Gallery
Bircham Gallery, Holt
Dart Gallery, Dartmouth
Binnel Studios

2020
No Naked Walls Gallery
Robert Fogell Gallery
Gallery 6
Claremont Contemporary Art Gallery
John Noott Gallery
Bircham Gallery, Holt

LINKS
Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford
http://www.robfogell.co.uk/

Bircham Gallery, Holt
https://www.birchamgallery.co.uk/

No Naked Walls, Bramley
https://www.nonakedwalls.co.uk/

Gallery 6, Newark
https://gallery6newark.co.uk/

Claremont Contemporary Gallery, Sevenoaks
http://www.claremontcontemporary.com/

John Noott Gallery, Broadway, Cotswolds
https://www.john-noott.com/