Pennie Elfick
Contrary to immediate first impressions Pennie’s paintings are firmly based in landscape. Specifically, she attempts to capture the transient nature of light. Her paintings reflect the veils of colour you might find in a winter sky or a summer field, expressed simply in shapes of colour which resonate with each other.
The simplicity of the designs contains a stillness that lies at the heart of something observed and experienced in the landscape, in this case the Somerset Levels that surround where she lives. Whatever the event the experience may have passed in the blink of an eye but the sense of it is retained through the artist’s choice of colours. The painting becomes a meditative experience itself for both the maker and the viewer. For despite the apparent simplicity of the images their making is quite the opposite, as each painting is made up of many layers of thin paint, each layer allowed to dry before the next one is applied. This is a slow process but it gives each painting the necessary depth of colour.
Pennie graduated from Wimbledon School of Art. Since moving to Somerset she has exhibited across the South West, The Barbican London and at art fairs in London, winning City Airport Art Award and Mercury Music Art Award. Her work is in private and corporate collections around the UK including the Royal Mint, Bromley Hospital and ABN AMRO bank.
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