Toni Cogdell

Toni was born in 1979 and now works from her studio in Bristol England. She works mainly in oil on canvas or linen. ......

"As flickers of starlight in a constellation of living bodies, the figures in my paintings are solitary, but not alone. The inward moment they are captured in; their form fusing with paint, marks and textures, acts as a portal to spaces behind knowledge, a sensory sea of feeling, a self beneath our belief of the self. Us, simultaneously set in consciousness and clay.

Symbolised in paint are the comforting and familiar objects which reveal themselves through the haze of daily life. A repetition of natural reminders cutting through a technology-driven Age. The horizon in your periphery as you travel. The tree you see every morning unrewardingly standing as the backbone to your inner monologue. City lights floating on water at night, flowers scattered like fallen stars on the land, silhouettes of hills behind buildings, birds, blossom, branches, our own personal talismans of nature and living. Motifs and markers that guide us subliminally.

And like the movement of migrating birds we connect. Our dreams and designs launching into the cosmos, gravitating towards kin, leaving invisible threads with which to ...

EducationBath School of Art, BA Hons in Fine Art, Painting, 2002University of the West of England, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, 1999.

* SOLO exhibition, Ambition Bird. 30th Sept- 4th Nov 2023. Turner Art Perspective gallery, Chelmsford.
* Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham, April 2023 - Turner Art Perspective

* Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, March 2023, with Turner Art Perspective.
*Anonymous heArt Project Auction for Heart Research UK, 2022
* Affordable Art Fair, Battersea. Turner Art Perspective March 2022
* Traces of Us Solo Exhibition, Turner Art Perspective,
Shenfield Essex. Sept 2021
*Anonymous heArt Project Auction for Heart Research UK, 2021
* RWA 168th Open Exhibition, Until May 2021
* ING Discerning Eye 2020, 19th Nov - 31st Dec 2020
*Anonymous heArt Project Auction for Heart Research UK 6th Nov - 15th Nov 2020
• 2020 Aurum Gallery Opening Show, Aurum Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
• 2020 Artist in Focus at Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, January
• 2019 Art Pistol Gallery Winter Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland Nov / Dec 2019
• 2019 Edinburgh Art Fair, with The Art Agency, Stand D14, 21st - 24th Nov 2019
• 2019 Black Swan Arts Open 2019, Black Swan Arts, Frome
• 2019 The Anonymous heART Project, Heart Research UK Auction & 1-day exhibition at Northern Ballet, Leeds
• 2019 Fresh Art Fair, Ascot, With The Art Agency Gallery
• 2019 Cass Art Live Art Event and Exhi...