About the Artist

Hi, my name is Abbey. I'm a contemporary, still-life oil painter based in London and Hertfordshire. 

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I create bold, statement still-life work, focusing on objects that speak to me and a contemporary audience and often create a sense of nostaligia. 

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My work combines traditional oil-painting techniques with pop-culture imagery; nothing is more fun than using arguably the word's most traditional and highly-esteemed mediums and pigments to paint bright lego bricks. This powerful and whimsical dichotomy is the quintessential ethos to my work. 

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With books and classic Hollywood cinema being beloved influences, as well as a long and happy career as a scenic artist for theater, TV and film, my work often incorporates hand-painted and carefully considered wording in quotation marks, bringing life to these inanimate objects in profound and emotive ways.

 

I love to play with depth of field, dramatic perspective and chiaroscuro, giving my work an intentional surreal quality, and creating a distinctive style that aims to bring a new lease of life to the genre of still-life painting.