BIOGRAPHY
My recent work is a result of an empathy with the Ridgeway landscape of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire and seascape of the north Cornish coast and west Penwith peninsular, drawing on the primitive and sculptural qualities of these landscapes which are devoid of man-made objects although . My work begins with detail drawings and watercolour paintings on site. It is important that my work starts in the landscape from which it draws its strength and inspiration. I find I must leave the subject and work in the studio where the preoccupation with the materials and to a certain extent abstract concepts combine with the original stimulus of the land and sea, combining to produce the finished painting. These paintings are much concerned with the colour and sculptural quality of the land and sea together with an underlying sense of the primitive power of the natural order of things. Recently I have been working at the Rabley Print Studio exploring landscapes through print-making, mainly collagraphs.
Exhibitions include:
Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions
Royal West of England Academy Exhibitions
Bristol Guild Gallery - joint exhibition
Royal Beatrice Contemporary Arts
Manor Fine Arts - Cardiff
Norman Machin Gallery, Oxon
Rowley Contemporary Arts Gallery, Kensington
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath (Bath Society of Artists)
Reading Museum Art Gallery
Hexagon, Reading Exhibition
Solo exhibition Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St Anne’s College, Oxford
Wills Art Warehouse
Affordable Arts Fairs, Battersea and West 2001/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13
Maltby Fine Arts, Winchester
Over the Moon Galleries, Cornwall
Bristol Guild Gallery, Bristol Festival of Galleries
Longcroft Prize Bath Society of Artists open exhibition 2001
Laing Exhibition, Mall Galleries 2001
Works on Paper, Royal College of Art 2003
Chelsea Arts Fair 2004
Dulwich Art Fair 2004
Royal College of Art, Works on Paper 2005
Malvern Theatre 2005
Royal institute of Watercolour Painters, Mall galleries 2005
Chelsea Arts 2005
Rowley Contemporary Arts Gallery, Winchester, 2008
The Flint Gallery, Blakeney, Norfolk, 2009
The Steam Gallery, Beer, Devon, 2010 onwards
Wiltshire Magazine, Feature Article - "Power and Rhythm - The Atmospheric Landscapes of Amanda Ralfe" February/March 2011
The Jane Fuest Gallery 2011 onwards
The RWA, Open Exhibition 2012
The Black Swan Spring Exhibition 2013
Selected for the "Sketch2013" Travelling Exhibition 16 Sep 2013 through 22 April 2014
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