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Trudy Willmott

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Trudy graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA(Hons). She obtained MPhil Economics/Land Economy in 1992; studied at L’Instituto per il Arte et Ristauro, Palazzo Spinelli, Italy; Kensington and Chelsea College and Wimbledon School of Art (from where she graduated with a BA Fine Art in painting).

Among the many awards she has won are the Princes Foundation Travel Award, the DLA Art Award, the Merrill Lynch Lansdowne Art Prize and the Florence Trust
Studio Award.

“For me the process of making a painting is an ongoing dialogue between the intention or ideas behind the work and the manipulation of the physical qualities of the materials used. All the thinking and making takes place on the canvas and as a result there is as much destruction as creation.

I use oil paint mixed with various mediums to create translucent layers which are laid down and lifted off creating a luminous and broken surface that often resembles a ceramic glaze. Recent paintings have their roots in the colours, textures and rhythms that characterise the landscape. The finished paintings are about this landscape and its elements rather than a description of it.”

Contact:
Telephone | 01643 841309
E-mail | trudywillmott@hotmail.com