Trudy Montgomery

Joyful and uplifting, Trudy Montgomery's vibrant, abstract paintings portray a fresh aesthetic and a contemporary view of our relationship with the land and our origin of belonging. Her tendency towards pure, bold color, often on an immersive scale, is influenced by the light and space of California where she lived for 14 years. Drawing inspiration from her travels, both inner and outer, Trudy's work can be seen as inner landscapes or 'dreamscapes' depicting the unseen.

Georgia O'Keefe said, "the abstract is often the purest form for me to express the inexpressible." For Trudy, this holds true. Working from a meditative state of action, Trudy uses the expressive possibilities of paint to convey what is, so often, inaccessible via words.

Trudy Montgomery is one of the next generation of artists in Cornwall whose work is part of a direct line of British expressionist painting which has its roots in the ground-breaking abstraction of artists such as Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon. Recently returned to the UK after 14 years in California, she now lives and works in an idyllic corner of West Cornwall. Her work has been exhibited in London, Dubai, Los Angeles and Berlin and is in private and corporate collections including Nordstroms, Hard Rock Cafe and Laing O'Rourke.

Trudy Montgomery was born in Bristol, England in 1970 and has studied in the UK, France and USA.

Following a British degree in politics and economics, Trudy studied art history and painting with tutors from Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and Otis School of Art & Design in Los Angeles. However, she acknowledges the UK's Robin Child as her most influential teacher in painting. She has recently completed an artist residency at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Greece. In the UK, Trudy has completed two years of artist mentoring and painting programmes at Cornwall's Newlyn School of Art in the UK. She has a YouTube channel and mentors artists and others who wish to find their unique creative ...

2023
Fresh Art Fair, Modern Art Buyer, Cheltenham UK
2022
Spring Art Pop Up with Modern Art Buyer, Bath UK
Josie Eastwood Summer Collection, Eastwood Fine Art, Stockbridge, UK
2021
Presence of Absence at Mall Galleries, London, UK
Past, Present, Future: 125 Years of Newlyn Society of Artists at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance, UK
Fresh Art Fair with Modern Art Buyer, Cheltenham UK
Josie Eastwood Spring Exhibition, Stockbridge, UK
2020
Artist Residency at Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, Greece
Penwith Gallery Associate Members Exhibition, St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Spring Collection, Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Stockbridge, UK
Summer Exhibition, Cricket Fine Art, Hungerford, UK

2019
Colour : Spring Exhibition - Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Stockbridge, UK
Ex-Libris - Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, UK - curator Dr Ryya Bread,Kestle Barton.
2018
Autumn Exhibition - Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Stockbridge, Hampshire UK
Kober - Heseltine Gallery, Truro, Cornwall, UK
The Mothers & Daughters - Circle Contemporary, Wadebridge, Cornwall UK
Spring Collection - Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire UK
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London - Cricket Fine Art
Cypher - Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
2017
Monochrome...