MEET THE ARTIST
“Her lively palette and use of loose brushstrokes is what initially drew me to her paintings, but digging deeper it is clear to see the force and vitality that goes into the very physical process of painting. Georgia never sets out with a plan and lets the act of painting guide her. She embraces elements of chance by allowing her chosen media to dictate the direction, whilst also ensuring that materials are pushed to their limits, creating new and unexpected possibilities.
Her paintings are multi-layered, heavy with paint, from which she scrapes, wipes and sands to excavate the layers underneath. This uncovering is completely intuitive and often reveals a subconscious memory of a place once visited, a mountain, a beach, a landscape. Even though these are her memories, Georgia encourages us the viewer to see what we want to see, to create our own stories and journeys.”
Nathalie Staples, Gallery Director, Cambridge Contemporary Art
ABOUT GEORGIA
Born; 1991 Buckinghamshire
Education; BA (hons) Illustration, Kent
Georgia worked as a freelance illustrator in Brighton for many years. After the birth of her daughter and a move back to her home town in Buckinghamshire (England), her studio practice shifted as she threw herself into painting large expressive landscapes.
CREATION
Georgia's contemporary landscape painting’s are bold and alive with movement. Inspired by vast, wild landscapes where she feels a great sense of freedom. She translates this expansive energy onto the canvas back in the studio.
Georgia relishes working on a large scale, using mops, brooms and discarded wood to shift the paint to its desired effect, building atmospheric, watery layers of paint contrasted by bold expressive marks.
“Each painting has it’s own journey, I never plan an image or a colour palette as this hinders me from painting with complete freedom, intuition and emotion.”
“When I go.. I really go. There might be 3 cups of tea before I start but once I begin the marks are fast and bold, the colours are liberated. I work on several blank canvases at once and bounce between them encouraging energy, movement and immediacy. As the painting builds layer upon layer, the process slows down and I see a landscape emerging. I persuade the viewer’s focus, encouraging this landscape to come through but never loose that boiling, wild energy of the painting’s underbelly - the boldness of the initial marks." - Georgia
AS SEEN IN..
Georgia's work has been seen in Good Housekeeping & InStyle magazine’s and a selection of her prints have been stocked in John Lewis. She works with multiple galleries and interior designers and had her first solo exhibition of 40 works at Cambridge Contemporary Art 2023. Her paintings have been collected across the UK, America, Europe and Australia.
Her painting 'Unforgiving Elements' (200 x 150cm) was exhibited at the Oxo Tower, London in 2023 as part of the Chaiya Art Prize and was long listed for the Jackson Painting Prize 2022. Georgia has built a loyal following in a short time and is considered an emerging artist to watch.
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GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
Ad Lib Gallery, London
Drift Gallery, Cheshire
The Art Buyer, Surrey
WHAT’S NEXT..
Duo Exhibition at Cambridge Contemporary Art: March 23 - April 13 2024 with brand new paintings by Georgia Elliott and Julia Whitehead.
Exhibiting at Manchester Art Fair November 2024
Large Scale Commissions - Georgia is excited to now offer large commission pieces for commercial & interior settings. Her expressive landscapes make a beautiful, bold statements on the walls of hotels, restaurants & commercial spaces such as boardrooms and stairwells. Email Georgia to find out more.
