Artist Statement:

These works have been painted directly from the nude model. On a formal level they comprise a synthesis of colour and line to describe volume and structure, presenting a counterpoint to contemporary celebrity-driven culture by depicting ordinary people with their myriad physical imperfections. The isolated figure; vulnerable and self-absorbed, is often observed as a foreshortened scape in which peculiar details have been carefully depicted; the asymmetry of a pair of ears, the angle one toe makes with its neighbour, the pull of flesh between finger and thumb, the sideways fall of a breast under its own particular weight.

Curriculum Vitae:
Occupation
1982-present Artist; portraiture, figure, landscape, still-life

1988-91 Scenic Artist; BBC Television Scenic Art Department, TV Centre
1991-present Freelance Scenic Artist; film, television, exhibition
Group Exhibitions
1989 Arthur Anderson Leeds
Open Studios; Carpenters Rd. Studios, E15 London
1993 “Building on Art” Bank Ho. Manchester
1996 Clifton Gallery, York
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
1997\99 The Gallery, Virginia Water
Chertsey Artists;
1998\02 Weybridge Art Society; Weybridge and Walton on Thames 1998 Smith Gallery, Teddington
1999 Taunton Open Drawing; Brewhouse Gallery, Taunton
“Naked” Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury
Studio Art Ho. Gallery, Leatherhead
2000 Perspectives; Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury
Atrium Art Gallery; Whiteleys, Bayswater, London
“NYAD 2000” DFN Gallery; Broadway, New York, NYC 2001 “Paintings From Life” Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury
Henley Music and Arts Festival
Bank Gallery Farringdon, London
Chichester Open Edes Ho. Chichester
2002 “Flower and Field”; Assembly Room, Guildford Institute
Surrey Open Studios [June]
2003 “Life Works” Windsor St. Gallery, Chertsey
Surrey Open Studios [June]
Solo Shows
1984 Warminster Arts Centre; Wiltshire
Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight
1985 Arcade Gallery, Harrogate
1987 Derby Hall, Bury
1990 Black Bull Gallery, Fulham, London
1995 Alternative Arts [Marylebone] London
1997 Tubal Cain Art Centre, Harrogate
2001 “Tracks and Wires” Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury
2003 Landscape: Paintings and Drawings; Assembly Room, Guildford Paintings and Drawings; Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, Surrey
Untitled Gallery, Hampstead, London [Sept-Oct]

Forthcoming:
Exhibition Gallery, Trinity theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Jan. – Feb. 2004

Glenn Ibbitson