I am an artist interested in light and strong form. The landscapes of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk alongside still life are my main sources. Within these subjects infinite possibilities seem to unravel as the rhythms of life are sensed through them. Bold colour I relish and find it the most direct and dynamic form of communicating. The winter is a wonderful time of dramatic contrasts.
All the paintings are titled, with measurements included. Prices range from £250-£2000. If you require further information contact me on the email link provided.
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Both my parents are artists. My mother taught me all I know about gouache and watercolour, and this early familiarity with art has helped free me of all kinds of myths and preconceptions about painting. In my teens I grew to love Paul Nash’s sense of place and love of the land in his work on the Wittenham Clumps and his painting of the Vernal Equinox. I am inspired by artists such as Vuillard, Matisse and Picasso. Living for fifteen months in Australia, I was struck by the immense spirit of the landscape and moved by the paintings of Sydney Nolan and Fred Williams.
“Each of Isobel Stemp’s pictures is as much a unique visionary inscape – or personal meditation – as it is a landscape or beachscape faithful to the ever-fluctuating rhythms and subtleties – and abstract harmonies – in the atmosphere of a particular place.”
Philip Vann
(Philip Vann is author of a number of books on modern British and Irish art, and author of the critically-acclaimed Face to Face: British Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century. He lives in Cambridge)
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