Bringing in the Sheep, 12" x 12 ½", acrylic

VIVIENNE LUXTON, MA (ARTS) RCA

ARTISTS STATEMENT

“I note things in sketch-books, and take photographs. Later, in the studio, I work from the imagination, enjoying the animation of people at work and play, and interacting with their animals and children. I like to inject bit of magic into my pictures by using high-key colour and disregarding objective reality if it doesn’t suit the composition”.

I studied painting at St Martin’s School of Art, London. I then went on to study film and television at the Royal College of Art and was awarded an MA (1966).

After a career in the film industry it was not until I moved to Gloucestershire and started a family, that I returned to painting. I taught art at Stroud College of FE for 16 years. In 1992 I moved to Powys to combine farming and painting.  I have exhibited at the RA, the RWA, the Albany Gallery Cardiff, Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, The Fiery Beacon Gallery, Painswick, The Millfield School’s “open” where I was “highly commended", and at the Red Rag Gallery, Stow on the Wold. I have also exhibited in many local venues in Herefordshire and Powys.  My work has been bought by Stroud District Council, St Margaret’s Hospice, Westbury on Trym, Gloucester Hospital and Cheltenham Hospital, and is in many private collections in the UK and abroad. My work can also be viewed online at “Art UK”. www.artuk.org  

Recently my painting of a bonfire at night was used by “The Oldie” magazine.