VIKKY FURSE

Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]

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Whole tracks of my creative life have been funded by portrait commissions.
 
I love working far from home, where there are no expectations, where my work is immediate and personal in sketchbooks, or as small plain-air paintings.  My practice is grounded from these diverse and exciting opportunities made possible through intense and challenging Art Residencies in the Arctic and Antarctic.  In Greenland I experienced the unique opportunities to travel in the company of Inuit hunters and subsequently been fortunate giving a number of talks and have had articles written on these unique expeditions.
 
Yet the core of my work, the paintings, are done back in my studio in Kent.  I prefer to work in my own wilderness with no expectations, so I am able to ‘play’, experiment and just let the work lead me, informed by my travels and love of the natural world.  

Originally from an art school fashion, tailoring background, using any material that came to hand, I have transported this unconventional use of nontraditional ‘everyday’ materials into my sculpture, which in turn influences the structural mark making and intense and brooding colours in my paintings.

As one of the founding members of Ashford Visual Artists, I have seen it organically develop and evolve.  And as a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) who sat on the council for a number of years.  I exhibit annually at the Mall Gallery, London with the SWA and for many years with the Pastel Society.