Born
in Oxford in 1962, Victoria grew up in a beautiful and remote part of Scotland
where she was greatly inspired by the surrounding wilderness. She exhibited a
wildness of spirit at a young age, painting the garden statues in her family
home pink and later travelling the world in search of inspiration. By 19 the
young Victoria knew she needed to go to art school, and armed with a portfolio,
she left home for London with a determination to find a school that would permit
entry. Even though term had already begun she won a place at City and Guilds to
study painting. After graduation her wanderlust took her through Asia, and
eschewing a camera, she recorded her travels with a sketch book and
watercolours.
For several years she funded further travels through
commissions in London and abroad, living in Scotland, the West Country and
Morocco before settling in an artists’ community in Southern Spain where she now
lives with her daughter in a house she built herself. |
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Artist’s statement: 2009
LIGHT ON ANDALUCIA
My home is on the slope of a mountain seven
hundred metres above sea level. My
present inspiration is the mountains and beaches of southern Andalusia. These
paintings are about light and atmosphere, not the physical landscape, but how
the circumstances of the moment, light, weather and time of day affect my vision
of it.
When the clouds are below the horizon and a
small patch of sunlight breaks through a dark and moody sky to touch the
mountainside I am inspired; a fire burning in a valley of green, or the first
rays of sunlight on the windmills, a sea
glittering between a dark sky and a still unlit land.
I invite you to drift and meditate on this wild
and natural landscape, to escape from a crowded and highly stimulated world, to
capture a quiet feeling of space and wonderat nature's power, occasionally
punctuated by man's intervention.
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