about
Victoria is a Brighton-based artist who creates deeply-felt abstract paintings. Working mainly on large canvas, over months she accrues layers and stories of acrylic, sand and masonry paint to produce a tactile record of process.
She lives with each piece as it develops, waiting for it to reveal its contours. There is a balance between contemplative colour-mixing and then unselfconscious moments of impromptu design.
She uses large decorators’ brushes which leave dynamic marks alive on the surface. She appreciates serendipitous imperfection and is oddly inspired by the paint patches covering graffiti around the city.
Victoria is influenced by Jim Ede’s mid-20th-century curation at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, especially his ideas about appreciating the simple space and light of a room and then placing art within this situation.
Victoria conceives of her work as having a human-sized presence and gestural charge, enlivening a space with conscious shape, colour and energy.
Read more about Victoria’s work and find out about recent news in her journal.
biography
Victoria currently makes large somatic paintings featuring resonant colour and records of gesture. She has exhibited variously including at Brighton Art Fair, Atelier Beside The Sea and Sussex County Arts Club.
Victoria’s work and studies in the humanities cross-fertilise with her art practice. She is an English Literature graduate with MAs in International Cinema and Creative Writing. Her poetry appears in a number of print publications (writing as Victoria Grigg), including in leading journal, The Poetry Review.
As an artist, she is largely an autodidact, appreciating the opportunities this offers to seek out her own creative directions in an authentic way. She has undertaken mentoring with artist, Julian Vilarrubi, as well as training in various disciplines at Phoenix Art Space.
Her work is held in several private collections in the UK and she is based in Brighton, Sussex.