Lot 341 - Josie Deighton - By Candlelight III

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

About
Josie Deighton depicts figures as if transparent, pencil, brush or mouse weaving and darting around, inside out. Her works capture particular states of mind, how it feels, rather than how it looks.
Deighton has been awarded several scholarships and prizes; her work is in held in notable collections and she exhibits widely within the UK and abroad.
Deighton is a freelance artist and tutor in London and online. She has been facilitating life / live drawing since 2011. She is involved in and open to collectives, commissions and collaborations. Her work is held in notable and private collections, contact Deighton to arrange purchase of original art works or prints.

Education
2014-15
Postgraduate Diploma, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK

2011-2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK

2012
Erasmus Scholarship, Universitatea Arta si Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2009-2010
Foundation Diploma Fine Art, Sussex Coast College, Hastings, UK

Solo Exhibitions
2023
Drawing Inside Out, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Riverside Artists Group, Polish Social and Cultural Association, London UK,
Brighton Fringe Flicks, Lewes, UK
The Nave, Kruja Castle, Durres, Albania
Figuratively Speaking, ArtSect Gallery, London, UK
Creators Studio Concepts, CMDMSTUDIO ACAVA, London, UK
Passagi Atina, Aliso Beatrice, Atina, Italy
We Like 'Em Short Film Festival, Oregon, United States
Drawing Humans, XYZ Gallery, London, UK

2023
Borders, Polish Social and Cultural Association, London, UK
Creators Studio Concepts, CMDMSTUDIO ACAVA, London, UK

2022
Many Rivers to Cross, Riverside Studios, London, UK
Creators Studio Concepts, CMDMSTUDIO ACAVA, london UK
Postcards from the Rivers Edge, Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames, UK
It's a pattern, Art Car Boot Fair, online
The Electic Art Car Boot Fair, online

Awards
2015
Catherine Yarrow grant
2013
Pip Seymour Painting Prize

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
The 'By Candlelight' series is a continuation of collaborating with Emily Metalskin, friend, muse and artist. Created by building layers of depth with saturated watercolour, viscous black sumi ink and glazes. Dark and sensual, Emily directs her fearless confident gaze out at us even as she contorts her body into the limited composition. Challenging the semi-transparency of womanhood, fitting herself into the frame yet alluding to outside of it.