Artist
Isabel Garfield
Isabel is a multi-media artist who recently completed The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School, working across painting, printmaking, drawing, and installations. Her work investigates the ways in which memories and dreams function and connect to our everyday lived experiences. She is interested in what constitutes a real, waking space and how this can weave reality and fiction together. The imagery in her work merges colour, pattern, objects, and the remembered frames and shadows of interiors.
In her recent studies, she became interested in combining observational elements with more imaginative work. She enjoys subverting mediums, such as printmaking in a painterly way which has added a new dialogue to her work as she has displayed these alongside paintings and installations. Through looking at German expressionist cinema she has developed an interest in the ways sets and spaces are constructed to form theatrical realities.
'I have been looking at interior and exterior spaces and the middle ground between these. Through using a combination of paint and pastels in transparent layers I have been playing with the shadows found in spaces and with the idea of trying to remember something entirely.' — Isabel Garfield
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In Praise of Home - An Online Exhibition
We're excited to present ‘In Praise of Home’, our new online exhibition.
“I’ve been looking into the everyday and home as something theatrical, like a stage set waiting for events to take place. I have been interested in the way rooms can hold memories and take on significance, holding symbolic qualities.” - Isabel Garfield
March Drop 2023
"This collection reflects my thoughts about the ways different places and timeframes overlap in memories. I’ve used transparent layers of paint to convey the feeling that memory is not solid and alters significantly with time. Colours and patterns are combined with landscapes and interiors. I’ve used structural devices like windows and shadows to show time in flux." - Isabel Garfield
The Artist Open Call Collection
'Isabel is full of surprises. With the technical ability of a classical landscape artist, she wants us to look at her work as a whole - like scenes from a film. Bucolic scenes turn into nightmarish ones when night draws in, and looming shadows and distorted shapes enter into her work, becoming more and more abstracted' — Georgia Spray, Founder of Partnership Editions
