Lucianna Whittle

I am a process-driven painter, meaning that the creation of the artwork is entirely dependent on the moment that I share with the paints. I engage with the materials and the surface as if they are alive and we co-create the painting based on this real-time relationship. There is an element of laying down my ambition for the final image and instead entering a collaborative state where I can discern the direction of the composition and be led to create a painting that accurately embodies the time it was painted in. I work in oils, unusually on oil paper and all of my work is abstract. I work full time from my studio in Hove, UK and exhibit a few times a year in both solo and group exhibitions. You can read more about my artistic process on my blog.

MA Cultural & Critical Theory, University of Brighton, 2003 - Distinction
Thesis: Is the Aesthetic Experience Revelatory of an Exclusive Modality of Truth? This enquiry looked into the sublime and the potential of art to afford us ecstatic experiences which can reveal deeper truths of the nature of our existence.

BA Fine Art Painting, Bath Spa University, 2001

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 - 'Home' RCA graduate group exhibition at Regency Town House, Sussex UK
2021 - Group Show, Irene Mensah Gallery, Hove, UK
2019 - Lucid Unknowing, Gallery 40, UK
2019 - Where The Light Gets In, Irene Mensah Gallery, Brighton
2019 - Women Can Paint, St Peter's Church, Brighton
2018 - Moments of Truth, Brighton Festival, Brighton
2017 - Inside Experience, solo exhibition, Irene Mensah Gallery, Brighton
2017 - I Want to See, solo exhibition, Pie factory, Margate​
2016 - Super 8 Open House, Artists Open House Trail, Brighton
2015 - Awakenings, group exhibition, Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester
2012-2015 - Career break to have children
2012 - Solo show at Friese Greene Gallery, Brighton
2010 - Seekings, Group Exhibition, Brighton Media Centre
2005-2018 - Open Studio exhibitions at Studio 106 as part of Brighton Festival
2004 - Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2002 - Group Exhibition, Walcott Chapel, Bath