Art for Ukraine

‘Taking the still, the ornamental and the static as raw artistic material, Cloutman uses her brush, pencil and pastel – in small, deft concentric motions – to animate her subjects. Sharp and deliberate lines differentiate the pools of soft colour characteristics of  the scenes she paints: a bricolage of textures, tones and moods that recall the hazy and unreliable dreamscapes of sleep. These images are often fractured between panels, or affixed to the more corporeal textures of steel or metal.’ – Arusha Gallery

Plum Cloutman (b.1995, UK), is a painter and printmaker working predominantly in soft pastel and oil. Educated at the Edinburgh College of Art, where she was awarded the Catriona White Prize, the Lyon and Turnbull Prize, and was featured in the 2019 Royal Society of Arts New Contemporaries exhibition. She has since exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally. Recent shows include The Views (Group, Moskowitsz Bayes, LA), Nine Lives (Group, Fortnight Institute, New York), Mini Solo (Althuis Hofland, Amsterdam), In Heat (Duo, Blue Shop Cottage, London), and Safe as Milk (group, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh).

Plum Cloutman lives and works between London and North Norfolk.

www.plumcloutman.com
@plumcloutman