Celia’s paintings were previously predominantly based on the landscape around Niton on the Isle of Wight, having lived in the area for many years, but during the last few years have also reflected her travels to various countries. She avoids immediate visual representations and paints from memory, enabling her to capture the essence of a time and place, but Celia likes to give the viewer something to contemplate and adds her emotional attachment to that place. 

Her influences include Patrick Heron, Paul Nash, Ivon Hitchins, Peter Lanyon, Paul Klee and Picasso among a host of others. These artists, she feels, have broken traditions of landscape painting with their very individual styles. She too is interested in the process of deconstructing the landscape and piecing it back together, so from a distance it is partly recognisable but the closer you get, the more it becomes about the painting process – drawing the viewer in to a riotous world of marks, textures and colour.

Celia attended Central School of Art for her Foundation and went on to take her BA (Hons) Fine Art at St Martin’s School of Art, London. She lived and worked in London until 2001 when she moved to the Isle of Wight.

EDUCATION AND EXHIBITIONS
History of Design – Brighton College of Art – 1981-82
Foundation – Central School of Art – 1985-86
BA Hons Fine Art Painting – St Martins School of Art – 1986-89
Undertook several commissions while raising family 1989-97
Leased studio in Camberwell 1997 and has been painting full time ever since.
Moved to the Isle of Wight in 2001 where she lives and works.