Joan Prickett
Group Magic
£1,500.00
Oil on board
61cm x 76cm
A late starter to a career in art, formal training began at a summer course at Slade School of Art in 2011, followed by two years at Edinburgh’s Leith School of Art where, in 2016, I was awarded the school’s Figurative Painting Prize. Earlier careers including midwifery, health visiting and counselling, focused intensely on people. People and the human form, continue to be the major focus of my work today. I think of myself as an expressive representational painter. I aim to create an engaging image and something of what I feel and experience of the subject/s, rather than simply recording what I see. My preference is to work from direct observation but producing portraits of NHS front-line workers (#portraitsfornhsheroes initiative) during the pandemic forced me to think more positively about photography as a resource. I work in oils and/or mixtures of ink and wash.
