Lot 284 - Christabel Forbes - Gardening Afternoon

Mixed media on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About

Christabel Forbes is a colourist artist who draws from her reality and memory to discover otherworldly, imaginative places. Drawing directly from life is crucial to her practice, which is then explored through printmaking and painting. She uses various materials, including oil pastels, watercolours, paint pens, and inks, to bring her artworks to life in a playful manner.

Education

2022-24

City and Guilds of London Art School, MA Fine Art

2014-15

Royal Drawing School, The Drawing Year (MA level)

2013

Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Erasmus

2011-14

Falmouth University, (BA) Hon Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Time & Place, Caversham Picture Framer, Caversham, UK

2022

La Couleur du Voyage, Millenn’Art, Paris, France

2021

London’s Green Spaces, Online

2020

Noirmoutier, Online

2019

Provence and Beyond, Blue Shop Cottage, Camberwell, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2024

Chelsea Art Society, Group Show, London

artEast, Suffolk, UK

City and Guilds of Art School MA Final Show, London, UK

Summer Group Show, The Violet Hour, Online

Chelsea Art Society 75th Annual Exhibition, London, UK

artEast, Suffolk, UK

2023

Royal Drawing School Summer Show, 21 June at Ralph Lauren Mayfair, London, UK

Chelsea Art Society, London, UK

artEast, Suffolk, UK

Nohohouse, Barcelona, Spain

Awards

2018

Wedlake Bell Award for a Young Artist at the Chelsea Art Society

Gallery Representation

RiseArt, UK

artEast, Suffolk, UK

Caversham Picture Framers, Berkshire, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

This artwork uses drawings from my sketchbook to revisit a comforting garden scene. It shows a person gardening, using vivid colours and expressive brush marks.