Sheilagh Jevons

BACKGROUND

Sheilagh was born in Newtonhill, Kincardineshire, Scotland.

In 1972/73 she gained an Art Foundation BA via the Open University, and became B.Phil in Counselling at Exeter. She continued her studies at Stourbridge college on the Foundation course in Art and Design, and has also completed a 1st year in Fine Art at Wolverhampton University.

She has had many solo exhibitions at venues including Dudley Museum and Art gallery, Burford House Gallery and the Ikon touring exhibition 'Digging up the Land'.

ARTIST'S Statement

I research the landscape for information about its locality:
the names of hills, streets, fields, house names.

I also draw attention to the notion of movement across landscape - walk, fly, migration.

These texts are hand-written and scratched into the paint surface in the different languages of Britain - Welsh, Gaelic, English.

I also create some of the motifs from my imagination, this may have been influenced by living or experiencing a specific place.

The paintings are made up of many layers of oil paint, so that scratching into the surface reveals the previously used colours and textures. The surface of the painting is often sanded down and reworked.

 

 

Gallery

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