Wendy McBride
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South by South West, 5-19 June
"Though I spent many hours as a child with a paint brush in my hand, I didn’t take art seriously until my youngest child began school. It was then I decided to go back to university and complete a mixed degree in art and literature. Since then painting has taken over.
"For much of my life I have lived in the West Country among the weather and shifting seasons. Nothing is fixed here, not for a day, not for an hour. But somehow, particular encounters with the natural world get stuck in my mind, and I think this is where the pictures begin.
"Back in the studio, the memory gets mixed up with mood and imagination and the scrape of chalk on board, so that I never quite know what will happen while the picture takes shape.
"I use pastels both for their translucent qualities, and because I like to work quickly. Degas was an early love, and Turner. Joan Eardley is a constant inspiration, as is Barbara Rae."
Wendy McBride
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Gallery Tresco, Scilly Isles
Somerville Gallery, Plymouth
Selected Group Exhibitions
White Space Art, Totnes
Byard Art, Cambridge
Mall Galleries, London
Affordable Art Fair, London
South West Academy of Fine Arts, Exeter
D'Art Gallery, Dartmouth
