Lily Greenwood

Lily has been painting professionally since 2006, exhibiting widely throughout the UK during that time, and now features in collections worldwide - including Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Australia. Lily exhibited overseas for the first time in 2012, with two shows in Barcelona, and one in Amsterdam. She now works from her studio on a sheep farm in Cumbria, just to the north of the Lake District.

Lily's work reflects a love of nature. Her original paintings are often inspired by multitudes in nature (flocks, shoals, gatherings...) and the flow of that multitude, in glorified representations. Lily’s paintings usually employ an element of collage material, however rather than found material, Lily uses paper copies of her own painting or printmaking studies. Koi fish, for example, are meticulously hand-painted, then reproduced, cut, and arranged in a composition on the canvas. Washes of inks are applied, and sometimes additional painted or drawn details, before a clear gloss varnish secures the work and adds an opulent lustre.

Work is often oriental in style; Lily is greatly influenced by the colours and aesthetics of eighteenth century printmakers such as Hokusai and Hiroshige, and Japanese kimono design. Lily is...

BA (Hons) Interactive Arts
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

2020
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Dogtooth Gallery, Chester
Upfront Gallery, Cumbria

2019
Manchester Art Fair, Manchester Central
Stories Art Gallery, Mayfair, London
Royal Geographical Society, London

2018
Manchester Art Fair, Manchester Central

2017
Cumbrian Artist of the Year Exhibition, Rheged Centre
(Runner up, People's Choice Award)

2016
Enid Hutt Gallery, Kirkcaldy
Christo Gallery, Glasgow
Tallantyre Gallery, Morpeth
Mitchell Gallery, Warwick
Upfront Gallery, Cumbria

2015
Wall to Wall Gallery, Liverpool and Batley
Alpha Art, Edinburgh
George Thornton Art, Nottingham
Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Cheshire
Bristol AAF
Battersea AAF

2014
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
The Brick Lane Gallery, London
The Buy Art Fair, Manchester

2013
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at Manchester Piccadilly
Great Sheffield Art Show
The Buy Art Fair, Manchester
The Mercer, Harrogate - Shortlist for New Lights Art Prize

2012
Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Crafting History Exhibition
Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport
Barcelona Showcase, Casa Batlló, Spain
Untitled BCN, Grazia, Barcelona, Spain
The Art Market, Holmfirth
Amsterdam Showcase, De Oude Kirk, Amsterdam

2011
Sydenham Arts Festival,...