Val Lawson

Val’s expressive paintings share her fascination with colour, contrasts and shapes. A self-taught painter, her style is always evolving because she loves to experiment with new materials or different techniques. Each painting starts with intuitive mark-making, evolves with layers of mixed media, glazes or collage, and is then refined after a review to consider composition and design.
Colour is always a dominant aspect of each painting and she usually works on several paintings with a common motif and the same limited colour palette.
Val draws inspiration from diverse sources. It may be something tangible in the world around us; the colours, culture, atmosphere, buildings or scenery of somewhere she's visited; or the words of a poem or song. A recent series was inspired by the poem 'Evolution' by Rebecca Elson.
She runs a local community art group and is an active member of Herts Visual Arts Forum. Her painting ‘Reflections 4’ was Highly Commended in the SAA Artist of the Year competition in 2021.

Post-graduate Diploma in Management and Fellow of Chartered Management Institute.

‘Small Works Exhibition’, Art & Soul Gallery, St Neots – November-December 2023
Harpenden Art Club Annual Exhibition – 26-29 October 2023
Herts Open Studios, 'Arty Friends @ The Settlement, Letchworth - 9-30 September 2023
Hitchin Art Trail - 1-31 July 2023
Big Art Fair, Town Hall, Hitchin - 23-25 June 2023
‘By the Riverside' Art & Soul Gallery, St Neots - April 2023
'Wild and Free', Baldock Arts Centre - January-March 2023
Exhibiting artist Tecton Gallery, Fenny Stratford, England from July 2017-2019
First solo exhibition "The Colours of Spain", Denia Casa de Cultura, April 2017
Ongoing displays of paintings at Artisans in the Yard Gallery, Shefford; BTC Stevenage; Herts Chamber of Commerce, Hatfield.