Four Sunflowers Painting

Stefanie Trow is a British artist who studied Visual Arts at Salford University, graduating in 2004. She now lives and works in Manchester, UK. I am a painter driven by my fascination of the natural world, human experience and materiality of paint. I creates multi-layered paintings that centre on fleeting glimpses from my life, looking at the relationship we have nature, the landscape around us and how we navigate through it. Intense bold colours are pulled and scraped across the canvas, creating an expressive language of their own. My brushwork gives way to movement. The paint just about holds onto the image, creating an ebb and flow of reality, taken away from us sometimes by abstraction. Like trying to grasp a memory, parts of the paintings remain vivid, whilst others drip and slide away from us, pooling into a new reality, ready for the viewer to unearth. My work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited across the UK at galleries such as the Albemarle Gallery (London), Contemporary Six Gallery and Comme Ca Gallery (Manchester). I have featured in Baaba Maal’s music video “Gilli Men”, a Boehringer Ingelheim TV advert and Sky Art LAOTY. Most recently I have been selected for the Jackson Art Painting Prize, ING Discerning Eye exhibition at Mall Galleries and elected as an associate member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts).