Venue address: The Green Room, The Victoria Institute, 10 Tarrant Street BN18 9DG
Colleen is a Sussex-based Landscape painter who has taught Art for 4 decades years and led an Art Department for 2 of them. She retired in 2020 to focus on her own work and has since exhibited regularly, being selected for several prestigious National Exhibitions.
Colleen’s inspiration comes from being ‘in nature’ and the heightened awareness of both that moment in time and of times past. She is fascinated by the way memories surface in response to the physical sensations of being in a place. Colleen is interested in both the broad expanse and the intimate close-up view; both natural and cultivated aspects of the landscape and how they connect us to our history. Colleen’s work is affected by the changing light, forms, and colours of the landscape through the seasons.
She paints while her experience of a place is still fresh, using sketches and photographs which are developed further through studies exploring composition, light, and colour. The resulting paintings are produced in series and executed quickly to retain the immediacy of the subject with expressive, gestural brush strokes.
Email: colleen_conti@hotmail.com