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Colin Willmott CV and Statement

I work in my studio near Petersfield in Hampshire. I have always painted and drawn and attended art college relatively late in life,  after an industrial and commercial career.

My art training includes life drawing at Chelsea Art College, colour study under Marian Bohusz-Schisko and Fine Art Appreciation and Practice, Farnham Art College (BA Hons), 1991-96.

I am motivated by paint, and I experiment quite a lot in trying to get the best out of it, when working on images that I find fascinating and which I want to express in my own way.

Much of my work is based on landscape, including ‘cosmic landscape', having studied NASA and Hubble images. I abstract from these and others on which I wish to base paintings, usually interpreted pretty loosely. Most of the paintings are in oil on canvas, but some are on wood panel using gesso, varnish etc. I also work on paper with tempera.

Some of the larger paintings may be more suited to the corporate environment, typically being 3 or 4 foot square (90 or 120 cm.), and some are larger still e.g Spinfinity  5 x 8 feet (150 x 240 cm). Some paintings are in private homes, but not necessarily with large wall space.

Exhibitions

                             Group:Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh           1997
                                          Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh            2000   
                                          Circles Gallery, Portsmouth                      2000
                                          Southside Gallery, Southampton             2000  (shared)
                                          Overbury plc Emerging Artists                 2004
                                          Chaussee de la Hulpe, Brussels             2006
                                          Spice Gallery, Southampton                    2008

                              Solo: Guildhall Gallery, Winchester                    2001
                                         Bergen, Norway                                          2004
                                         Winchester Cathedral                                2005 

Corporate Clients include   

                                         William Baird PLC, London
                                         Perkins Slade Ltd, Hampshire
                                         Abraham Wax, New York, lawyer

Private Clients          UK,  France,  Norway