Bridget Farrands
Bio
My professional life has been spent running my own business as a management consultant working around the world to help businesses develop collaborative teams and to support leaders in learning how to lead better.
My 2 sons are grown up with their own families; my husband is a professional photographer of landscapes so we enjoy touring this and other countries finding great places to sketch and photograph.
My own domestic landscape is my garden which I have created from nothing much and gives me as much pleasure as my art.
I support a local charity which provides help to students who are struggling with life at university or college.
Artist Statement
I have been painting for the last 20 years, learning from some great teachers as well as artist friends. All my life, I have looked at landscapes I am walking in and seen them as paintings. Then finally, 20 years ago, I decided to make them into real paintings. And that's where my own discoveries really started - how to show in a painting what I can see and feel and others may not? Now I try to interpret the mood, structure and feel of a landscape by illustrating the patterns and rhythms of hills and valleys, the light and the experience of being in that place. I feel I have succeeded in my work when a viewer looks at a painting and just wishes to be right there. I work in acrylics and oils, constantly experimenting with new ways of showing what I experience which is why not every one of my paintings will look like another. And that's the excitement and fun of discovery in being an artist.
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Bridget Farrands
I have been painting for the last 20 years, learning from some great teachers as well as artist friends. All my life, I have looked at landscapes I am walking in and seen them as paintings. Then finally, 20 years ago, I decided to make them into real paintings. And that's where my own discoveries really started - how to show in a painting what I can see and feel and others may not? Now I try to interpret the mood, structure and feel of a landscape by illustrating the patterns and rhythms of hills and valleys, the light and the experience of being in that place. I feel I have succeeded in my work when a viewer looks at a painting and just wishes to be right there. I work in acrylics and oils, constantly experimenting with new ways of showing what I experience which is why not every one of my paintings will look like another. And that's the excitement and fun of discovery in being an artist.
