Ffiona Lewis was born in Devon in 1964. She qualified as an architect before taking courses at Central Saint Martins and working in the props department at the National Theatre. Ffiona’s first major solo exhibition took place in 1993 and she has been selected for group shows including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Her new solo exhibition, Green Tapestry, features her largest and most ambitious paintings to date and runs until 29 January at The Redfern Gallery, London. www.redfern-gallery.com
FINDING NEW SPACE
Green Tapestry has been four years in the making and it has coincided with us moving to a dilapidated farm in Suffolk. The land was very rundown, so we’ve been building that back up with planting and hedging, and then working with Suffolk Wildlife Trust to reinvigorate the landscape. These paintings pretty much emerged as we worked on the farm and the land.
Moving into a new barn studio enabled me to work on the larger works in the show, which are these large foliage-based diptych canvases, like Puff Ball Potager. They are collages, if you like, of me walking through and being in the greater garden and pasture fields around us. When I’m out there, these glimpses of construction occur to me. They build up in my head and I carry them around until I get back to the studio, where they go down on paper very quickly. I keep drawing and redrawing the subject until I’m almost drawing it with my eyes closed and then I can build up the scale.
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