Cheryl Perrett

Being a a painter for me is about constantly exploring, responding to the present and past, and expanding my practise.
It seems that at present I have 3 distinct approaches: Expressive movement inspired abstracts, large female subject based gestural paintings and detailed precise small technique orientated works again with the female as subject. This isn’t contrived but just intuitive, next week I could have 6 or 7 approaches: I don't want to restrict my work by pigeon hole-ing it.

Life interests me and the past fascinates me. I am always watching and absorbing via sketchbooks, notes and logging moments in my ‘head library’; recall of past events and sensations combine with themes to inform what and how I paint. I am a living sponge of art.

I see human form in landscape, we are part of it, we are it.

I cant say I had a very practically instructive degree training but I did find a most relevant context to work in as a woman artist.
Feminism is beautiful word and concept which engages me with my role of exploring my own position as a woman artist today, and peeling back the layers to reveal a long line of unrecognised talented past women artists. It is a word of politics and social context, a word for my life.

The Ita...

1984 to 1988 Leeds University BA Fine Art with History of Art 2:1 Social and feminist art history studies impacted my practise from then on

1998 to 1989 Bretton Hall Yorkshire PGCE in Secondary School teaching Art and Technology

1989 to 1992 Art teacher Ullswater High School Penrith Cumbria

1992 Awarded Business grant and Set up Cumbria Captured Holidays. Summer courses in drawing and painting

1992 to 1993 Anglesey Full time painting

1993 to 1996 Oxford part time painting working at framers and renovating houses 1996 to present Set up Parkfields Country House Initially running art courses. Now evolved into a weddings venue.

1997 Opening of Parkfileds Gallery selling contemporary art. relocated to Ross on Wye in 2004. Sold as going concern in 2011.