PENNIE ELFICK

Contrary to immediate first impressions Penny Elfick’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 Elfick 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.

 Selected Biography
MA Painting Wimbledon School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art London Guildhall University
2001 Residency - Cill Railliag Project Co Kerry

Recent Exhibitions
2006 Barbican London
2005 Printers Inc, Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton
2005 Quartz, Queens College, Taunton
2004 Artists 303
2004 Millfield Open, Street
2004 Sherbourne House, Sherbourne
2004 Somerset Art Weeks
2004 Artmill, Plymouth
2004 Rook Lane Chapel, Frome
2003 Artmill, Plymouth
2003 The Meeting House, Ilminster (Solo)
2003 Nth Art @ OLS&CO London N5
2003 International Miniature Print Show
2003 Fingerprint
2003 Somerset Printmakers

Awards
Mercury Music Art Award
City Airport Art Award

Commissions
ABN AMRO Bank
Private

Public Collections
Bromley Hospital
Reed Publishing
Mercury Music Collection
City Airport
Shaw and Pitman
Shaw Park Plaza Hotel NW1
Royal Mint
Old Mutual
Anglo American PLC