Silvia Schaumloeffel

Studio Schaumloeffel - Contemporary oil painting in the Cotswolds.

Paint is to be relished on many levels, from the instinctual and emotional, to the sensual and evocative.

My thinking is centred on the activity of applying paint, and I feel as well as think through it.

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About Painting Paintings

I am interested in sharing my observations of my immediate surrounds and perceptions of the senses through the medium of colour, gesture and paint.
My paintings contain a sense of nature and of florals but are not depicting a specific flower or element in nature. While the observations and subsequent expressive marks are very personal, I entice the viewer along to visually explore, to find themselves engaged and identify with the painting on a personal level.

The joy and pleasure is in a swath of paint that leads you into the painting, in marks that have a physicality to them, a dominance then offset with some flirtatious flicks of colour seducing you to a smile.

My studio is filled with the smell of oil paint. You find big heaps of paint on my palette, stacks of art books and seductive colour-pops in the form of collected mementos, cards with dried clumps of discarded paints scraped from surfaces, small colour studies and fresh flo...

CV

- Turps Correspondence course 2020/21 and 2021/22
- Short Courses – expressive painting workshops with Sam Bassett, Gary Wragg, Simon Carter, Paul Wadsworth, Louise Balaam, UK
- Assistant tutor at The Norfolk Painting School, 2016 - 2018
- 12 month part-time “Oil Painting Atelier course” at the Norfolk Painting School, Tatterset Business Park, Norfolk, UK, 2015 - 2016
- Career in Motorsports Marketing - 2004 - 2018
- University of Bayreuth, Germany and Barcelona, Spain, - - Dipl Sports, Economics, Business Management and Law 1998 - 2003
- Gymnasium Ehingen, Germany, A-level, high school diploma - 1990 - 1998

Winter Exhibition, London, Lucinda Dalton Gallery, 06.12.23-21.01.24
Winter Exhibition, Burford, Brian Sinfield Gallery, 02.12.23-21.01.24
Manchester Art Fair, Manchester 17.-19.11.23
The Other Art Fair, London Shoreditch, 12.-15.10.23
Affordable Art Fair, Lucinda Dalton Gallery, London 10.-14.05.23
Open Studios, Oxfordshire 13.-21.05.23
Solo Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, 06.-20.05.23
Pop up in Notting Hill with the Lucinda Dalton Gallery, 23.-29.11.22
ING Discerning Eye 2022, Mall Galleries, 11.11.-20.11.2022
The Other Art Fair, London Shoreditch, 13.10.-16.10.22
Group Exhibition, Zari Gallery, London, 01.-30.09.22
Summer Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford - August 2022
The Lanesborough Hotel, London, May - October 2022
Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Clanfield - 21.-29.05.22
Solo Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford - 26.03.-16.04.22
The Other Art Fair, London - 17.-20.03.22
The Other Art Fair, London - 16.-20.10.21
Summer Exhibition, Brian Sinfield Gallery - August 2021
Open Studio, Oxfordshire Artweeks, Clanfield - May 2021