Carol Wagstaff

Biography
I was born in London and grew up on the borders of Hertfordshire. I trained as a hairstylist which also enabled me to pursue my love of travel, subsequently living and working abroad for several years.
In 1993 I moved to Sussex close to the South Downs National Park. With a life long passion for art I had joined art groups to paint and draw and decided as a mature student to embark on a foundation course followed by a fine art degree course graduating in 1998.
The driver in universities at the time was principally biased toward conceptual art which for several years I pursued, however, the draw of paint always a passion was reignited when I accepted a painting commission for a music company; since that point my work continues to occupy a more reflective expressive figurative place;
The portrait has become a recent preoccupation, fusing the figure and landscape in some images.The self portrait is also a genre that I have become interested in and in 2019 had my portrait selected for the Ruth Borchard portrait exhibition. Over the past two decades I have exhibited Nationally and Internationally in selected group and solo exhibitions and have work in private collections in the UK, Europ...

!991-1993 St Albans School of Art and Design.
Foundation in Art and Design
!993-1998 University of Hertfordshire
BA Hon's in Fine Art

2020

2019 - Selected - Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Exhibition
London
Group - Skyway Gallery - West Sussex
Selected - Sussex Art Fair - West
Group - Oxmarket - Chichester
2018 - Solo Retrospective - Horsham - Sussex
Selected - Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries - London
Selected - Royal Acadamy - Ulster - Belfast
Elected Member - Association Sussex Artists

2017- Selected - London Biennale - London.
Selected - National Open Art Exhibition - London
Selected - Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries - London.
Selected - Association Sussex Artists
2016 - Group - Gagliardi Gallery - Chelsea - London.
Selected - Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries - London
Association of Sussex Artists - West Sussex.
2015 - Two Person - ISSO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Selected - International Biennale - Italy.
Sussex Prairie Gardens, West Sussex. ( Sculpture)
2014 - Group - ISSO Gallery - Tokyo - Japan
Selected - Horsham Museum - Group Show
Sussex Prairie Gardens, West Sussex, (Sculpture)
2013 - Two Person - Narenj Gallery - London
Selected - London Biennal...