ABOUT
Georgia’s contemporary landscape paintings are a vibrant and intuitive response to her surroundings. Inspired by the seasonally changing British landscape, Georgia’s paintings capture the energy and pace of nature.
Her work is alive with movement and colour. Impulsive, energetic mark-making infuse the paintings with urgency, while gentler swathes of paint create an atmospheric quality. Georgia enjoys the immediacy of working outside, en plèin air. Rapidly responding to the environment she captures the energy, earthiness and windswept feeling of the landscape.
Back in the studio Georgia relishes working large scale, she begins by searching for colours that resonate with her on an emotional level. Then, bouncing between multiple canvases, the paintings evolve as she responds to each move in an instinctive, frenetic dance.
“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 and emotion. I’m translating that wild, moving energy from the natural landscape, but also allowing intuition, emotion and colour to guide the work.’
Ultimately, Georgia aims to create a ‘sense of place’ through a language of marks and colour, evoking that raw energy and wild beauty she finds in our natural landscape.
Education
BA (hons) Illustration, University for the Creative Arts, Kent 2013
Foundation Art & Design, Bournemouth Arts University, 2009
Bio
Having worked as a freelance illustrator based in Brighton for many years, Georgia felt a need to create larger more expressive works after relocating to the countryside in Buckinghamshire (England) in 2018.
She regularly exhibits through a number of respected UK galleries, works with interior designers and shows at renowned art fairs. Including; The Affordable Art Fair (London), Manchester Art Fair & Surrey Contemporary Art Fair. Her work has been featured in Good Housekeeping & InStyle magazine’s and a number of her fine art prints were selected for John Lewis stores. She had her first solo exhibition (40 paintings) at Cambridge Contemporary Art in 2023; where after a painting demonstration in the gallery, her work was featured in ‘The Cambridge Critique’. Her next solo exhibition is scheduled for September 2026.
Georgia’s paintings adorn private homes and commercial spaces worldwide; including Europe, Canada, America and Australia. Her painting 'Unforgiving Elements' (200 x 150cm) was exhibited at The Oxo Tower, London in 2023, part of the Chaiya Art Prize and long listed for the Jackson Painting Prize 2022. To see a full list of exhibition click here.
Georgia exhibiting at The Oxo Tower, London.
A painting demonstration at Cambridge Contemporary Art
Exhibiting at Manchester Art Fair
“Her lively palette and use of loose brush marks is what initially drew me to her paintings, but digging deeper it’s clear to see the force and vitality that goes into the very physical process of painting.”
Natalie Staples
Director at Cambridge Contemporary Art
Selected Group & Solo Exhibitions
Duo Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, 2025 Affordable Arts Fair, Hampstead Heath with Ad Lib Gallery, 2025
Small Works Winter Exhibition, Spring Cheltenham, 2024
Affordable Arts Fair, Battersea with Ad Lib Gallery, 2024
Duo Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, 2024
The Oxo Tower, Chaiya Art Awards Finalist Show, London, 2023 Solo Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge, 2023 Summer Exhibition, The Art Buyer, Surrey, 2023. Winter Exhibition, Ad Lib Gallery, London 2023
Charity Art Auction, Highgate Contemporary Art, London, 2020
Achievements
2025 Live Painting Demonstration at Cambridge Contemporary Art, part of The Cambridge Arts Festival
2024 Shortlisted, Livingstone St Ives, Open Call, Cornwall
2023 Finalist, Chaiya Art Awards, Group Exhibition at The Oxo Tower, London, Painting selected ‘Unforgiving Elements’
2023 Collaboration, John Lewis, Art Print’s selected ‘Unforgiving Elements’ & ‘Shifting Skies'& ‘Side Swept’
2023 Live Painting Demonstration at Cambridge Contemporary Art, as part of my solo exhibition
2022 Long-listed, Jacksons Painting prize, paintings selected ‘Unforgiving Elements’
2021 Finalist, All She Makes & PXP Competition. 3 paintings selected for exhibition with PXP Gallery.
2021 Shortlisted, VAO21, Visual Art Open UK & International Emerging Artist Award.
2021 Finalist, Absent Gallery, 2 paintings selected, ‘Hope In The Air’ & ‘Seagrass’
2013 Shortlisted, AOI World Illustration Awards
Press
Interview with The Art Buyer: "Interview with artist Georgia Elliott" // JUN 2023
Article in Brand You Magazine: "3 Years, 2 Babies, 1 Solo Show" // JUN 2023
Article in The Cambridge Critique: "Georgia Elliott at Cambridge Contemporary" // MAR 2023
Work featured in Good Housekeeping Magazine //MAR 2021
Work featured in InStyle Magazine // NOV 2021
Work featured in 'The Independent Milton Keynes Christmas Gift Guide' by Sophie Etc // NOV 2020