Olga Brereton

OLGA BRERETON

I am a British artist from Devon.
I always felt a great desire to create and currently work from my countryside studio near Dartmoor. I paint, draw and create and plant gardens and work with textiles.

My paintings explore my fascination with the connection between light, colour and movement - hence my horticultural background. It gives you a glimpse of the world through my eyes. My art is inspired by my passion for flora and the natural world and the ever-changing landscape of the Moors and the Atlantic Coast.

I am trying to infuse my work with light and air, bring it to live. So you can walk between the layers of brushstrokes in the landscapes and wriggle your hands the stems of my botanical paintings and drawings, with their sinuous yet hesitant and careful winding lines.
Despite their meandering quality I am inviting you to recognise my plants and their individual structures. The 'structure within anarchy' as I describe it, and the free handling of ink and paint coming together to re-create a cohesive whole with my eye-imagination-paint brush-surface process.

As a child I use to play with my grandfather's gold chain, lowering it onto the tabletop to create infinite configurations. It seems that there my f...