Sortie ; No Way Out Painting

An artist and maker, Ingrid has put the focus of her recent works on the surreal, fantasy, repetition and absurdity. The thread of the narrative conversation is a constant in her work.     Recently commended by Red Line Artwork for producing art that engages with global concerns, Ingrid’s creative process begins with exploratory work in collage, leading to ink drawings, often large-scale, and the final outcome is a canvas oil painting.   Regularly showing in UK and Europe, Ingrid’s large oil, ‘Afternoon Tea at the RAC Club’ was exhibited at Hauser&Wirth, Black Swan Open in Somerset in 2019. In the same year a large scale ink drawing “Cheese on the door, where’s my stew?” was featured at the Mall Gallery, at the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition. Her ink drawing ‘After the Berlin Holocaust Memorial’ was shown at Landmark Arts and her depiction of the Battle of Waterloo, a large mixed media work featuring lead toy soldiers and earth from the battleground, was shown at the Fine Art Society. Frequently adopting a historical narrative in exhibitions about The Somme, The Russian Revolution , Waterloo and Auschwitz , (working in mixed media , wax and 3D) Ingrid’s work this year turns, in addition, to issues surrounding us in the “now”. The wonders and mysteries before us get swallowed up by the ceaseless conversations of the mind. Although “presence” is a popular concept in this crazy, digitally obsessed, Brexit world we live in, hardly any of us actually manage to do it. We’re too busy worrying about why the soup is too cold. Ingrid’s process is collage, large scale exploratory ink drawings leading to the final outcome in oil paint.