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Friend In Need Painting

zena blackwell

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 18.1 W x 48 H x 3.5 D in

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SOLD
Originally listed for $3,260

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Featured in the Catalog

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Showed at the The Other Art Fair

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Artist featured in a collection

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

*This painting was sold at The Other Art Fair, London, October 2022 My paintings investigate the highs, the lows, the anxieties and heightened emotions that come with being a parent and have been described as being beautiful and whimsical but also psychologically charged. The constant observation of my children, myself and the home provides the magical starting points and necessary stimuli for my work, which also incorporates pattern, animals and elements of landscape. I am very interested in patterns, high contrasting colours and interior design, and am also increasingly using animals in my work, considering the adage ‘never work with children or animals’. I am drawn to the innocence in the postures, facial expressions and behaviour of children and animals that has diminished by the lived experience in adults.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Oil on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

18.1 W x 48 H x 3.5 D in

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'The domestic setting is beautiful, still, and a touch awkward.' - Sacha Craddock - Art critic, writer, curator) 'Zena Blackwell is a must' - Carrie Scott, Art Historian and curator and founder of SEEN Zena Blackwell's awarding-winning paintings and drawings investigate the chaos, humour, and beauty of childhood. Zena is a painter based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She obtained her Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, and degree at Wimbledon School of Art, London. Returning to painting in 2016 following a break from the medium (during which time she explored sculpture, collage, performance and installation), she won first prize at the Cardiff MADE Summer Exhibition in 2017, presenting her first solo show consisting of over 30 paintings and drawings there the year after. The exhibition, ‘Seen Not Heard’, for which she was awarded a £5k production grant from the Arts Council of Wales, was included in a weekly list of the top 5 UK exhibitions by a-n (The Artists Information Company) and Wales Arts Review included it in a top 10 list of the best Welsh Visual Arts for 2018. In 2019 she won 3rd prize at ‘PAINT’, an open painting prize at PS Mirabel in Manchester. Zena was selected for the National Eisteddfod in 2018, '19, '22 and '24 and has exhibited widely. Her work is held in the National Library of Wales’ permanent collection and in private collections around the World. Zena was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2021 and the BEEP Painting Prize in 2022. In 2024 Zena won the Friends of the Glynn Vivian Prize at BEEP Painting Biennial. Zena founded the instagram blog Contemporary Cymru in 2017 and between 2003-2011, she co-founded a critically acclaimed live music event in London and also DJed nationally and internationally.

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Featured in the Catalog

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Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London

Artist featured in a collection

Artist featured by Saatchi Art in a collection

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