Sophie Rees
Based Bristol, UK
Welsh artist living in Bristol; graduated from the University of Brighton. I grew up near Abergavenny in Wales, UK surrounded by the Brecon Beacons National Park which instilled a love of nature and exploration.
Central to my work is a deliberate unsettling of our perception of pictorial space. The abstract qualities within the works relate to a history of art, which is about constantly coming up with visual metaphors for experience, much more than it is about narrating experience. Colour, shape and reflection all conspire to create a sense of a non-place. Within my paintings are natural and architectural forms and pattern: pattern obscuring, decorating, repeating, accidental and expressively: pattern as pattern and pattern as content.
Education
- 2008: BA hon’s degree fine art painting, University of Brighton
- 2005: Diploma in Art and Design, City of Bath College
Selected Exhibitions & Awards
- 2019: North Bristol Artists, Bristol
- 2017: Bristol Art Trail, Bristol
- 2015: Double Rainbow, Color Elefante, Valencia, Spain
Press
- 2012: Hackney Citizen Newspaper, ‘The Art of Simplicity
- 2007: ‘Mind Box’ magazine, July issue, ‘Artists profile’
- 2007: @Home magazine, Strutt & Parker, May issue,‘ Contemporary Art’
- 2007: Artists & Illustrators Magazine, May issue
- 2006: The independent newspaper, November 11.11.06 ‘ Brit-art the next generation’
- 2006: The Guardian Newspaper, December 06 ‘ Stuart’
Credentials
- Internationally exhibited
- Represented in international private collections
Purchase artwork by Sophie Rees
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Achievements & Goals
- Selling paintings to collectors all over the world
- To financially support myself completely through my paintings
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Genre & Style
- Abstract
- Contemporary
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Inspiration & Vision
- Colour
- Nature
- Pattern
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Sales & Trajectory
- Already sold works
- Self-funded through curating and writing
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Technique & Material
- Acrylic
- Oil
- Spray paint
