Philippa Futrell
Art Forms
Mixed media, Painting
Exhibition and News
24th October – 2nd November BETWEEN AIR AND EARTH
Working towards my largest exhibition to date with Star Brewery Gallery, Lewes. I am sharing the space with five other artists Jade Taylor, Claire Gill, Tessa Holmes, Lorraine Singer and Joanna Terry. Joanna and Lorraine are ceramicists, Tessa is a print maker, Jade mixed media and Claire is a photo montage artists, so a wide variety under the banner of “Between Air and Earth”
Available for sale will be work from my Hiraeth, Frozen time, Conversations and Tamed wilderness narratives
6th – 8th November CRANBROOK ART SHOW 2025 Vestry Hall, Cranbrook, Kent (10 – 5 Thursday and Saturday 10 – 7 Friday)
30th year of this great show packed full of work from 27 artists -this looks like the show to come to. This is my first year and the line-up looks great even though I say so myself.
Biography
Having had a formative art education in Glasgow, I see myself as a colourist. After gaining my BA in Graphic Design from Middlesex I worked for a well respected self-employed London designer for two years. However, a life changing trip to Bangladesh and a dislike for the prescriptive nature of a design career convinced me that becoming a teacher was a preferable way to maintain my love for exploration of media and gave me the platform to produce my own work. 1990 saw me employed to teach Art at Benenden School having completed my PGCE at London University and through many summer holidays I painted, slowly developing and selling privately. Becoming Head of Department in 2015 put a halt to my own creativity. I have subsequently retired from teaching to concentrate on being a professional artist. Painting in all forms of watercolour is my preferred media, pushing boundaries between realism and abstraction, focusing on quiet wild spaces throughout the UK – light, colour and texture informing compositions.
Exhibitions:
SEOS, Rye Society of Artists, Star Brewery Gallery, Benenden art Fair, Linden Hall Studio, Sussex Contemporary, Rye Art Gallery
Contact
If you are interested in viewing my work but cannot make the dates for SEOS do contact me directly on pipvf404@gmail.com to make an appointment.