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Artist Biography -
Valerie Warren |
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main theme is a sense of place; the contrasts and harmonies of
colours, shapes and textures and the patterns made by rooftops,
walls, chimneys, towers and domes, and their relationship to the
landscape which fashioned them.
My favourite townscapes are in the
South: Tuscan hill villages, the contrast of desert and Souk in
Morocco, the vibrancy of colour and intricacy of shapes in
India.
I enjoy complex perspectives,
looking down on street patterns or upwards to silhouettes; I
often use mixed media, supplemented by scrumpled paper, to
reflect different textures in finished paintings, but am at my
happiest sitting in the sun with a sketchbook in my hand, just
recording.
After graduating and lecturing
in English Literature, I moved to Blackheath with my husband and
baby and switched occupations; designing jewellery, lecturing in
Art History, illustrating books, journals and newspapers with
topographical drawings.
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Morocco: Dyers Vats at Fez by Valerie
Warren |
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I learnt etching and joined
the Greenwich Printmakers Association, but gradually moved
towards watercolour, exhibiting with the Royal Watercolour
Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.
I became a Fellow of the Society
of Architectural Illustrators, Vice President of the Society of
Graphic Fine Art, later joining the Society of Women Artists and
the Royal Society of British Artists.
I exhibit across the UK, with
more local shows at Blackheath Halls, Greenwich Theatre and the
Stark Gallery, Lee Green. I have works in public and private
collections in Europe and the USA.
Examples of Valerie's art can be
found on her
Artists Page. If you are interested in buying any
of Valerie's artwork please refer to or Buying Art page. |
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