Abi Wason

Abi Wason was born in Winchester, UK, 1978. After studying at both degree and MA level she travelled extensively around the world. On her return to the UK she worked for many years with the BBC (British Broadcasting Cooperation) before returning to painting full time during the pandemic. Abi lives and paints from her studio in the far west of Cornwall, UK.

Each one of Abi Wason’s abstract paintings are an explorative, bold, and colourful journey in which she uses the paint and canvas as her language to connect to the world. A space where shapes, form and colour become tools to navigate thoughts, emotions and musings. Layers of paint are laid down like memories, only to then be scraped back to reveal new untrodden paths. She likens these new - almost archaeological discoveries - to feelings of nostalgia, gentle stirrings of a captured but forgotten time in her life. Each piece of work is a fine tightrope between reigning in and letting herself go. Lines and symmetry give way to disorder and discord. Mainly working with abstraction, she is heavily influenced by her environment and some paintings are vaguely reminiscent of the landscape she lives in.

Abi studied Media & Visual Arts at Plymouth University (UK) and later an MA in Contemporary Visual Arts at Falmouth School of Art (UK).

Abi has exhibited at the Newlyn Art Gallery, (Newlyn, UK), Penwith Gallery (St Ives, UK), Exeter Phoenix (Exeter, UK), Harbour Lights (Southampton, UK) and Tom Cox Gallery (Crystal Palace, London, UK.) She was chosen by Saatchi Art to feature in their ‘New Collection’ during August 2023.