Mary West is a painter based in London, who graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art. In the subsequent years she has worked in collaboration with another artist creating large scale murals in private homes, corporate and hospitality spaces and as public art commissions. Their book, 'Making Murals' will be published later this year. However, her first love has always been oil painting, enjoying the intimacy and immediacy of the studio and working on canvas. Her work is in private collections in the UK, USA, Denmark, Hong Kong and Australia.
Looking at a garden, it's blur of colour and form, is an experience emergent into abstraction: the loss of individual outlines of flowers and grasses in the cacophony of the whole. The garden is also the hybrid place of artifice and nature - as is abstract painting, in the work of Mary West. Ilse d'hollander, whose paintings also hang delicately between abstraction and representation of natural phenomena, said that "it is painting itself that always remains fundamental": like d'hollander, West is a painter's painter. As their often temporalising titles evoke, West's paintings are rooted in moments of personal experience. An achievement spans the work: the effect of simultaneity in the layers of paint. This texture contributes a naturalism: the paint appears to have been applied in exactly the place it should be.
Mary West is a painter based in London, who graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art. In the subsequent years she has worked in collaboration with another artist creating large scale murals in private homes, corporate and hospitality spaces and as public art commissions. Their book, 'Making Murals' will be published later this year. However, her first love has always been oil painting, enjoying the intimacy and immediacy of the studio and working on canvas. Her work is in private collections in the UK, USA, Denmark, Hong Kong and Australia.