Studio Sale | Olivia Mansfield

Made in 2021 on a small residency in Cornwall.

Olivia’s paintings are figments of fantastical imaginary worlds. They exist almost as portals, as arching doorways to fragmented realms which allude to and echo our own existence. Ethereal visions approach you with beguiling, unravelling narratives, bringing together splayed and mystical perceptions of a familiar yet altogether fictional place.

“My work looks to highlight a discourse between landscape, the wilderness, sublime nature and how we as human beings fit, mould, morph, move and adapt within it.  As I work I focus on intuition, on basic form and shape, allowing the fluidity of of the paint, the natural organic marks made by pushing and pulling within the viscose medium to lead me to an outcome. I see figures, flora and fauna, beasts and bodies manifested, swirling and floating through rays of light and dark, caressing, almost bleeding into the landscapes around them with loose flowing motions.

These territories celebrate luminosity and boldness of colour; they have a relationship deeply rooted within creation and destruction and they engage with forces of elemental power and sacredness of space.”

Accolades 

Foundation diploma in Fine Art from Central Saint Martens, UAL. 
BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice from Goldsmiths, UOL. 

Olivia has work coming up in no less than 4 different group shows across London this summer and will also be featured in Art on a Postcards Winter Auction later this year (2022).

She has exhibited in multiple online and physical group shows since restarting her practice full time in early 2021.Already showing with the likes of, London Paint Club, Holy Art Gallery, Paint Talk, Procrastinarting, Brushes With Greatness and most recently with Irving Contemporary. 

Olivia currently works from a home studio in Milton Keynes after a long stint in London, she is a freelance painter maintaining her practice along with her mothering duties.  She sells her work direct from the studio as well as from selected online galleries to her ever growing international collector base. 

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