Tabitha Wilson

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work initially is a document of the transformation of a landscape, whether this is the beauty of a plunging valley having been savagely ripped and carved by ice, leaving plucked rocks and rugged contours in its wake, or the layers of earth revealed by weathering and erosion.

I strive to capture the natural light as it dramatically saturates the landscapes, casting shadows or softening the landscape during the late summer, all dusky, warm and slightly flushed.

My interest is in the natural erosion and the impact it has on us. I am drawn to the landscape both man-made and natural, it might be the way a cloud forms and hangs waif-like, lingering, soft and harmless or how it can suddenly transform to smother, encroaching overhead, ominous and menacing.

I am amazed by the desolation of snow capped mountains, frozen and chilling, to meandering rivers and ox-bow lakes created by river erosion. The influence of weather, climate and sudden changes in the landscape are what inspire me and I am constantly looking and trying to capture this in my work.

BA(hons) in the Fine Arts from Winchester School of Art.
Associate Lecturer in the Arts, Design & Media at NHC, Centre for The Arts.
Artist in Residence, St. Francis' College, Independent boarding and day school for girls, Broadway, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire. 2011-2012.
Winner of James Willis prize for drawing. LAC Summer Open 2011.
Visiting lecturer to Kent Institute of Art & Design and Bournemouth College of Art & Design 2001 - 2005.
Judge for the National Photographic Awards for the Association of Photographers, 2004.
AOP Silver Award for Art Direction Nick Daly, 2002.

2020
Summer Open, Group Exhibition LAC

2017
Open Studios, Hertfordshire
Summer Open, Group Exhibition LAC

2015
Open Studios, Hertfordshire
Summer Open, Group Exhibition LAC

2014
I've never seen the Mona Lisa: a work in progress, The Foyer Gallery LAC

2013
Devonshire Business Centre, Foyer Show
Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City

2012
Summer Open, Group Exhibition LAC
Celebration of an Artist in Residence, St. Francis' College, Independent boarding and day school for girls, Broadway, Letchworth Garden City
'A Series of Landscapes' The Foyer Gallery LAC
Group Exhibition, Copper Beech Gallery, Wymondley
Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City

2011
Open Studios, Hertfordshire
Summer Open, Group Exhibition LAC