About
I live and work in Hampshire from a small studio in the garden. Following my long career as a successful ceramic restorer I made a welcome return to full time painting, completing a period of extensive study with The Open College of the Arts to refresh my techniques.
My contemporary landscape paintings are reflective, impressions of places I know well or have visited, they are an expressive response to an observed situation, or to a fleeting moment. Working in oils, acrylic, or mixed media my paintings are visual echoes of my reactions to contact with the environment. I aspire to capture an essence of a place, how it seemed at a particular moment, and recreate that atmosphere in paint on canvas. I use a spontaneous impasto technique that builds colour and textured marks into contrasting quiet and vigorous passages, creating visual and tactile interest.
Much thought, study, sketching, and note taking on site, to enable me to create a spontaneous free flowing landscape painting. I relish the seasonal moods and changes of the landscape, painting in tune with the seasons.
My contemporary landscape paintings are reflective, impressions of places I know well or have visited, they are an expressive response to an observed situation, or to a fleeting moment. Working in oils, acrylic, or mixed media my paintings are visual echoes of my reactions to contact with the environment. I aspire to capture an essence of a place, how it seemed at a particular moment, and recreate that atmosphere in paint on canvas. I use a spontaneous impasto technique that builds colour and textured marks into contrasting quiet and vigorous passages, creating visual and tactile interest.
Much thought, study, sketching, and note taking on site, to enable me to create a spontaneous free flowing landscape painting. I relish the seasonal moods and changes of the landscape, painting in tune with the seasons.
Sherry Edmondson 07: 03:1946
2016 Diploma of Higher Education in Painting from University of the Creative Arts
2008 - 2015 Studied Fine Arts with the Open College of the Arts
2015 February 6th elected to exhibiting member Farnham Art Society
2020 August accepted as member of West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studio
Exhibitions 2024
24.02- 30.03 Andwells Brewery
01 04 -16.04 Appart open Godalming
05.04 -08.04 Spring exhibition basingstoke Art Club
01.05.30.05 WB&NH Open Studios
07.05-20.05 The Control Tower Greenham
17.08- 19.08 Odiham Art Society annual exhibition
17.08-24.08 hampshire Open Studios & artists + Proteus exhibition.
Exhibitions 2023
01.04- 15.04 AppArt Prior’s Field Godalming Surrey GU7 2RH group selected
14.04-16.04 Festival of arts and Crafts The Base Greenham group selected
29.04.-30.05 Open Studios West Berkshire & North Hampshire Insight at The base
19.08- 21.08 Odiham Art Group Annual exhibition
25.08-28.08 Hampshire open studios Group Exhibition Studio 9 at Sherborne St John19.08-21.08
25.08-05.09 Fleet art society annual exhibition.
2022
25.02 - 06.03 Retrospective Newbury City Arts group exhibition
05.04 - 19.04 Festival of Arts and Crafts the Base Greenham
22.04 - 24.04 Contemporary Art Fair 3day art fair Newbury Racecourse
07.05- 30.05 Open Studios West Berkshire & North Hampshire
Insight Exhibition, The Base Greenham Business Park
09.05-30.06 Arlington Arts Newbury Mary Hare School
19.09- 21.09 Odiham Art Group (Hampshire Open Studios )
29.09-29.09 Studio 8 (Hampshire Open Studios)
19.08-21.08 Odiham Art Group, annual exhibition
26.08-29.08 Studio 8 group exhibition (Hampshire Open Studios)
24.09-01.10 Local artists group exhibition Framemakers Newbury
03.09- 02.10 Hampshire countryside & villages group exhibition Basingstoke
17.11.22-03.01.23 Winchester Art Society annual exhibition
2021
28.05-29.06 The Allen gallery Alton
17.05-12.06 St Barbe Gallery Lymington
30.07.-01.08 Newbury Contemporary Art Fair
20.08-30.08 7 Artist + Proteus Creation Space.
21.08-23.08 Odiham Art Group.
21.09-28.09 WBNHOS Proteus Creation Space
1.10-10.10 Alton Art Group.
17.09-11.10 Insight at The Base Greenham Common.
25.10-26.11 Howarth’s Gallery Newbury
30.10- 14.12 Basingstoke Art Club The Willis Museum basingstoke
10.11- 14.12 Winchester Art Society Discovery Centre Winchester.
2020
14.12. - 10.01.21 Winchester Art Society Annual Exhibition awarded Acrylic Prize
2019
23.08- 26.08 Hampshire Open Studios held at my home. Colour Unlimited
05.10-09.11 Splendour of Nature Willis Museum Basingstoke
04.10- 13.10 Alton Art Society Annual Exhibition
11.10 16.11 Winchester Art Society Selected exhibition Discovery Centre Jewry Street
2018
October /January 2019 Winchester Hospital
August Hampshire open studios
March Sherfield gallery
2017
November Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London (open exhibition)
November Discovery Centre Winchester
August Willis Museum Basingstoke
August James Hockley Gallery Farnham
2016
September / October Discovery Centre Winchester: (Landscape prize )
2015
February Sherfield School gallery
September Discovery Centre Winchester
September Winchester Hospital
2013
August. Hampshire Open Studios
2016 Diploma of Higher Education in Painting from University of the Creative Arts
2008 - 2015 Studied Fine Arts with the Open College of the Arts
2015 February 6th elected to exhibiting member Farnham Art Society
2020 August accepted as member of West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studio
Exhibitions 2024
24.02- 30.03 Andwells Brewery
01 04 -16.04 Appart open Godalming
05.04 -08.04 Spring exhibition basingstoke Art Club
01.05.30.05 WB&NH Open Studios
07.05-20.05 The Control Tower Greenham
17.08- 19.08 Odiham Art Society annual exhibition
17.08-24.08 hampshire Open Studios & artists + Proteus exhibition.
Exhibitions 2023
01.04- 15.04 AppArt Prior’s Field Godalming Surrey GU7 2RH group selected
14.04-16.04 Festival of arts and Crafts The Base Greenham group selected
29.04.-30.05 Open Studios West Berkshire & North Hampshire Insight at The base
19.08- 21.08 Odiham Art Group Annual exhibition
25.08-28.08 Hampshire open studios Group Exhibition Studio 9 at Sherborne St John19.08-21.08
25.08-05.09 Fleet art society annual exhibition.
2022
25.02 - 06.03 Retrospective Newbury City Arts group exhibition
05.04 - 19.04 Festival of Arts and Crafts the Base Greenham
22.04 - 24.04 Contemporary Art Fair 3day art fair Newbury Racecourse
07.05- 30.05 Open Studios West Berkshire & North Hampshire
Insight Exhibition, The Base Greenham Business Park
09.05-30.06 Arlington Arts Newbury Mary Hare School
19.09- 21.09 Odiham Art Group (Hampshire Open Studios )
29.09-29.09 Studio 8 (Hampshire Open Studios)
19.08-21.08 Odiham Art Group, annual exhibition
26.08-29.08 Studio 8 group exhibition (Hampshire Open Studios)
24.09-01.10 Local artists group exhibition Framemakers Newbury
03.09- 02.10 Hampshire countryside & villages group exhibition Basingstoke
17.11.22-03.01.23 Winchester Art Society annual exhibition
2021
28.05-29.06 The Allen gallery Alton
17.05-12.06 St Barbe Gallery Lymington
30.07.-01.08 Newbury Contemporary Art Fair
20.08-30.08 7 Artist + Proteus Creation Space.
21.08-23.08 Odiham Art Group.
21.09-28.09 WBNHOS Proteus Creation Space
1.10-10.10 Alton Art Group.
17.09-11.10 Insight at The Base Greenham Common.
25.10-26.11 Howarth’s Gallery Newbury
30.10- 14.12 Basingstoke Art Club The Willis Museum basingstoke
10.11- 14.12 Winchester Art Society Discovery Centre Winchester.
2020
14.12. - 10.01.21 Winchester Art Society Annual Exhibition awarded Acrylic Prize
2019
23.08- 26.08 Hampshire Open Studios held at my home. Colour Unlimited
05.10-09.11 Splendour of Nature Willis Museum Basingstoke
04.10- 13.10 Alton Art Society Annual Exhibition
11.10 16.11 Winchester Art Society Selected exhibition Discovery Centre Jewry Street
2018
October /January 2019 Winchester Hospital
August Hampshire open studios
March Sherfield gallery
2017
November Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London (open exhibition)
November Discovery Centre Winchester
August Willis Museum Basingstoke
August James Hockley Gallery Farnham
2016
September / October Discovery Centre Winchester: (Landscape prize )
2015
February Sherfield School gallery
September Discovery Centre Winchester
September Winchester Hospital
2013
August. Hampshire Open Studios