Amanda Wigglesworth

I build up my paintings slowly over time, layer by layer. Using my long-established process, I apply a coat of oil paint then scrape passages away to create an interplay of dappled colours and then continue adding more paint mixed with resin building up an image.
My ideas are to create an image based on chance. Physically, I use painting tools which limit my control of the medium. By using scrappers and household brushes, a random selection of marks emerge, including broad patches of colour. I then use a squeegee and wipe is across the image with a diluted oil mix. It creates distinctive variety of marks and broad patches of colour.
I don’t have a specific picture in mind when I start. I like the fact that it is not planned. The method of random choice and chance, its build-up and destruction produces an abstract image but never a pre-determined one.
The process takes a long time and many different images appear on the canvas and it is only at the end, when the final image crystallises, that I am satisfied with
the painting.

Lives and works in South Manchester, England.

Inspired by David Hockney, Sean Scully and Gerhard Richter.

Technique is layers of oil paint and resin which are built up over time to create lots of texture.

BA(Hons ) History of Art and Design with Practice Manchester UK

Member of the Society of Scottish Artists

Corporate Collections
Dell UK Headquarters
Govnet Communications, London

Prizes
Birmingham Royal Open, 2003
National Open Art Competition, Best Northern Artist ,2015

Flux Exhibition Greenwich Peninsula, 4th-27th November 2021
Solo on line exhibition, ,Hayhill Gallery 1st-30th November 2021
ExpoArt, Miami , December 2019
ArtExpo, Zurich, August 2019
Manchester Art Fair , October 2018
Wilmslow Art Trail, November 2017
National Art Prize,(shortlisted) Oxo Tower , London, November 2017 Art&, York Racecourse, 30th October, 2017
Flux Art Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art, 12th-16th July, 2017
Artbox Project, Basel June 14th-19th 2017
Art Project, Miami, December 2016
Art Below Winter Exhibition, Truman Brewery October27th-30th,2016

Group Exhibition, Hayhill Gallery, Baker Street London 13th-28th January 2015

East Cheshire Hospice Group Exhibition,Macclesfield, 2014

Art For Cure, Suffolk,May 2014

Wendy Levy Winter Exhibition, 2013





Solo Exhibitions

Portico Library , Manchester,2013
City Inn, Manchester,2008


Prizes
Northern Artist Award, NOA, October 2015

Birmingham Royal 2003