Celia Wilkinson

Celia Wilkinson born in Bristol, UK, lives and works in the Isle of Wight off the South coast of England. She has an MA degree Central St Martins University of the Arts London and a BA from Brighton College of Art. 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.