Rhiannon Young – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://rhiannonevetts.wixsite.com/rhiannonsworkshop

rhevetts [@] gmail.com

I am best reached by email – rhevetts[@] etc
I am happy to be contacted all year round.

Artist information

My artwork is “homegrown”, inspired by the people and places I love. Nature and family are huge inspirations of mine. The aim of my landscape paintings is to capture the soul of a place so that you feel as though you are walking amongst its trees, listening to water or walking through one of the many gardens of memory. The media and style I choose for the painting is always inspired by the place it captures and what the viewer sees and feels in that landscape. It fascinates me how two people can walk in the same place and yet see the colours and details completely differently.

I adore the texture of paint and the vibrancy of colours. Just blobbing some oil paint onto a paint-pallet (always a piece of cardboard from the recycling bin) brings me joy. Up until now, I have produced art solely for family and friends, so welcome to my art and I hope it makes you smile.

Mess into Art:

I tend to accidentally paint everything when I’m focused. This is partly due to my habit of holding spare paint brushes in my mouth or hair. I also love to jig whilst I paint. I cannot dance but I will happily jig about to an Irish reel or bit of fast fiddle music whilst the paint flies – much like how my rabbit used to skip around to play. This is the purest moment of the painting – when it begins to create itself. It’s the moment all planning ceases and the brushes and paint seem to go on where they need to – I’m no longer driving it but just the tool to let it happen. I can hold on, smiling, and let the painting from my mind seep onto the page with no thought as to how. It’s a bizarre, fast-paced, yet truly weightless, mindful moment. It’s the reason I paint even though I can’t stand the initial phases of marking it out…I’ve never been one for careful planning.

Exhibition information

As I am new to selling my artwork I am happy to take commissions on an individual basis and am producing prints of my work that I will be selling during Artweeks. I am displaying in my friend and colleague’s ceramics studio (we both work for the same nature conservation charity) as we have found that our inspirations and (even paint / slip splatters!) are wonderfully similar. Do come by and see us 🙂