Sheila Marlborough

Art Training

1978-1982 Part-time courses at Brighton Polytechnic
1978-1985 Short courses at St. Ives School of Painting, Cornwall
Mainly self-taught and a member of several exhibiting art groups, I paint in watercolour, acrylics and collage. Since 1986, I have frequently had work shown in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. In 2002 I won the Royal Watercolour Society Award in the Watercolour C21 Open Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in London.
For fifteen years, I taught watercolour and painting in mixed media to students in Adult Education.

Artist Statement

Born and raised in Sussex, I have a deep love of the landscape and gentle contours of the South Downs. I wish to create a feeling of optimism for the viewer with my use of colour and integrated collage and rediscover the forms that have made up the ever changing shapes of our environment for hundreds of years.
My paintings grow with layers of colour, balanced between figuration and abstraction, until a faint breath of recognition is felt, a memory, a place, a different time?
Sometimes I draw on my memory and imagination to create a simplified and more personal interpretation, but ultimately the painting dictates the outcome.