Lot 275 - Mandy Hudson - Flower and dragonfly

Oil on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Mandy's work is mainly still life oil paintings based on accidental arrangements she comes across in everyday life. These can be anything from things glimpsed in shop windows, objects left on the street or plants and debris seen on walks along the Thames estuary near where she lives.

Education
1986–1989
BA (Hons) in Illustration, Maidstone College of Art (KIAD), UK

1985–1986
Foundation in Art & Design, Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2016
Things, Coffeeismycupoftea Space, Dalston Cafe Projects, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2025
The Chair, The Lido Stores, Margate, UK

2024
Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
Lido Open 2024, Margate, UK
Room of One's Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK

Gallery Representation
Partnership Editions, Online Platform, UKWork most frequently exhibited at The Lido Stores, Margate, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Recently I have been painting random assortments of things seen in flea markets and junkshops. These four postcards are based on brooches, I find painting them interesting because of the resonance of their secondhand nature and the natural forms they are based on. Older women in my family did piece work for the hat industry and they remind me of embellishments added to hats which I saw as a child.