Lesley Oldaker

UK artist. Exhibited in UK, Switzerland, USA, China, France, Italy, Sweden, France, Bratislava and India.
My work explores the complex relationships, transient nature and our interactions within the shared spaces around us. Examining and incorporating current human conditions affecting us in todays society, creates a narrative within the work and by expressing a personal response to co-occupying the space communicates a common sense of displacement, a question of belonging, purpose and relevance within our continually changing urban environments.
Initial drawing, photographic and observational studies, enable me to abstract the essence of form, space and colour for my paintings and the main medium, oil paint, communicates more desirably the sense of continual movement and fluidity of the form within my work. A limited colour pallet and painterly mark-making helps to evoke a stronger suggestion of mood and place, encouraging the viewer to personally explore and interpret the painting further.

2017 HNC Fine Art Painting (OCA/University of the Creative Arts, UK)
2011 Foundation Dipl. in Art and Design, Bath City College/University of the Arts London UK (Distinction)
2013 Invited Artist Residency, Da Wang Cultural Highland Art Centre,Shenzhen, China011-14 Life Art classes under artist Alex Zwalen, Zurich (www.alexzwalen.ch)
2005-10 Life Art classes under artist Jackie Harding, UK (www.jackieharding.com)

2022
Crypt Gallery, London
D Contemporary Gallery, Mayfair, London
Art on a Postcard, London
Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham, UK
ArtSupermarket, Stockholm
2021
Flux, London
Manchester ArtFair
ArtSupermarket, Stockholm
2020
DF Exhibition, Paris
ArtCan with Love, London
Transient VR exhibition
2019/2020 Elevate 2, ArtCan, The Shard, London
2019
AAF Stockholm
Flux 6, National Army Museum, London
2018
Figure and Form, LingwoodSamuel Gallery, UK
Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD Gallery, Bath, UK (Peoples Choice award)
Flux 5, Chelsea College gallery, London
2017
Camaver Kunsthaus, Ottovolarte Gallery, Florence, Italy
44AD Gallery, Creativity Works, Bath UK
Flux 4, Chelsea College Gallery, London
Around the World in 7days, GBA, Claridges, New Delhi, India
2016
Edinburgh Art Fair, The Chimera Gallery
Flux 3, Old Truman Brewery, London
Tales of Art, GBA, 1AQ Gallery, New Dehli, India
Summer Exhibition, The Chimera Gallery , Ireland
Solar, Nude Tin Can Gallery, UK
Urban Experiences, Nude Tin Can Gallery, UK
2015
Flux 2 Exhibition/ RCA, London
Steiner Gallery(Vienna) summer exhibition, Kronen Gallery, Zurich
La Melia d'Oro, Lake Como, Italy (Camaver Kunsthaus www.camaver.it)
2014
Winter Pride Arts Awards 2014...