Celia De Serra

Celia de Serra spent her childhood in rural Kent and West Dorset graduating from Exeter University with a Fine Art and English degree. Post degree her art practice was predominately concerned with abstraction but she retained an obsession and attachment to her rural roots and went on to produce a body of work investigating and responding to farming, tourism and the timber industries impact upon rural environments, from the West Country to Shropshire and Wales.

Celia is engaged intensely in the act of looking, and concentrates on a kind of visual scrutiny to which the viewer is drawn, generating a particular viewer involvement and a visceral sense of ‘being there’.

She is also a founding member of 'The Arborealists', a group of artists who exhibit together to promote the theme of trees in contemporary art.

Celia has completed commissions for both Somerset and Dorset NHS Trusts where a collection of her paintings now remain on permanent display. She has been granted awards for her drawings from the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust. Her work is also in private collections in the UK and Europe.

She continues to embrace the disciplines of drawing, photography and painting as a means to document and elaborate further the places ...

 
Exeter University, BA Fine Art and English Literature.
 
Newcastle University, Foundation year Fine Art

Selected solo exhibitions
2015
Threshold: Silk Top Hat gallery, Ludlow

2014  

Lifting the Canopy:  Silk Top Hat gallery, Ludlow.
Out of the woods: Two person show, Allsop gallery, Bridport  Arts Centre, Dorset

2013

Understories/Overstories  (2 person show), The Art Stable

2012        

Recent Drawings  Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow

2011        

Understories  Celia Lendis Contemporary, Gloucestershire

Recent Drawings and Paintings  Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow

Off the Beaten Track  Dorset County Hospital, Arts in Hospitals, Dorchester

Take care of the senses and the sounds will take care of themselves  The Art Stable, Dorset

2007           

Recent Paintings   Elder Froy, Dorset

2006        

Dorset Arts Weeks

2005        

Pit-stops & Beauty Spots  Dorset County Hospital, Arts in Hospitals, Dorchester

1998        

Recent Paintings  Atrium, Cork Street, London

1996        

Land   Exeter and Devon Arts Centre, Exeter

1995        

Recent Paintings  Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset

Selected group exhibitions
2015                                                                                Arborealists,The Art of Trees, National Trust, Mottisfont.             
Arboretum, Royal Wes...