Labenne-Ocean, Aquitaine, France
Abi is an award winning artist who lost her sight but gained her vision. British born, she grew...
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Joined In 2019
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About the artist
Joined In 2019
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Abi is an award winning artist who lost her sight but gained her vision.
British born, she grew up in Hertfordshire and now lives in France near Biarritz since 2002 where she creates and sells her art on-line and exhibits on a regular basis.
She paints her abstract figurative female nudes and portraits with a variety of mediums.
She is always experimenting with tools, technics, styles and colour with her beloved chosen subjects.
These mixed media artworks often start with an ink sketch or a watercolour painting working with her model live and with photographs, before creating a larger canvas version.
Although continuously inspired by female wisdom, strength, beauty, and the natural world much of Abi’s unique style comes from her impaired vision, being blind in one eye and impaired in the other,
creating a pattern over everything she sees and causing foregrounds and backgrounds to often merge.
Her influences come from Picasso and his altered cubist reality, plus the wide variety of styles he innovated,
Henry Moore and his large mainly bronze sculptures suggesting the female form (having grown up near some and near where he lived) and
Klimt for his composition, symbolism, patterns and portrayal of t...
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
Bayonne France - Solo Art Exhibition
'Half The Story'
Galerie des Corsaines
2025
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Casildart d'ART Contemporary
Mayfair
London Feburary 2024
December 10 - 17 2023 Gallery 54 London, Mayfair
July 30 - 10 August 2019 Amou SW France
2019 Alexander Morgan Gallery, Epping, London
2018 Alexander Morgan Gallery, Epping, London
2017 Alexander Morgan Gallery, Epping, London
2015 Bergerac, france
2015 Salon de Contrntia St Jean de Luz France
2016 Circle de Marais Église des Forges France
2013 Circle de Marais Labenne France
2013 Galiery Bidart France
2012 Church Street Gallery, Saffrom Walden, United Kingdon
2010 Seignosse France
2009 Circle de Marais Labenne France
2009 Journée de la Femme Ondres France
2008 Macs Art Labenne France
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