INSIDE OUT
An exhibition by Amanda Blunden
Tuesday 27th July to Saturday 8th August 2020
Open Monday - Saturday 11am to 5pm
Facebook Live video on Monday at 5pm - visit @amandablundenart
An exciting exhibition of paintings and beautiful paper vessels by Amanda Blunden will be on show in Sprout from Tuesday 27th July to Saturday 8 August. She’ll be there most days between 11am to 5pm - only two people at a time and please wear face coverings.
Amanda lives locally and has exhibited her work in galleries across the country, on TV and in press. "Inspiration comes in many forms. Mine comes mostly from the landscape around me. I love the sea and whilst a part of me wishes I was in a studio overlooking the ocean and rocky shores, I find myself also drawn to more urban landscapes – I do live in London after all!"
Although there will be no member’s Private Views in Sprout at the moment Amanda is hoping to do a special Facebook Live video on Monday at 5pm - visit @amandablundenart pour yourself a glass of something and feel free to ask her any questions!
‘Inspiration comes in many forms. Mine comes mostly from the landscape around me. I love the sea and whilst a part of me wishes I was in a studio overlooking the ocean and rocky shores, I find myself also drawn to more urban landscapes – I do live in London after all!
I love this city. I love its concoction of old and new, beautiful and ugly, colour and grey. I love its history and its stories. Everywhere you go you find something to peer at and wonder. Most of all I love its great arterial river and the Thames features heavily in my work. I like to spend time on its shores and bridges gazing at the life and the soul of its being. When I take photos or make sketches I am looking at those elements that make it so special – the lines, textures and shapes. Through those elements, I want to convey the subtle conflict between the beauty and the brutalism of the landscape and how that makes us feel.
Shapes and form are a big part of my work, as seen in my ‘Vessel’ series. I think a form can breathe a life of its own and exude a distinct feeling. When I look at them I feel comfort and ease but with an edge of something slightly subversive too.
I’ve also been working on a series – ‘ Faded Memories’ – exploring images from my childhood from holidays and experiences. Planes feature quite strongly and other vehicles but also ‘snaphots’ of moments. I’ve tried to convey the almost rose-tinted, hazy and other-worldly view of those memories through my choice of colours, texture and distressed image transfer from photographs onto painting.’
After gaining her Fine Art Honours degree from Leeds in the mid 80s, Amanda has led a varied artistic career.
Based in SW London, where Amanda lives and works, her work has over the years, been shown in galleries and fairs both in London and nationally; on TV and media including craft and design publications and on fashion designer clothing for high end retailers.
Her work has included public space wall murals, surface pattern design, papier-mâché grandfather clocks, and more recently mixed media printmaking and painting.
Her recent work combines mono-printing and painting. Her mixed media monotype, ‘Night pool’, won the Intaglio Printmakers Prize at the National Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery in September 2017.
‘City Beach’ another piece won a place at the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition in March 2018 , ‘Vessel 1’ at the 2019 exhibition and again in 2020 with ‘English Winter 1” also at Bankside Gallery.
Two paintings have been accepted by The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour for their 208th Exhibition at the Mall Galleries to be shown in September 2020.
Amanda has also exhibited locally to her home in South West London, both in solo shows, art fairs and through local group shows in galleries.
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