Penelope Anstice

Born in Scotland and trained at Edinburgh College of Art, Penelope lived and worked in London for 10 years before moving back to her native Scotland. She has exhibited her work widely throughout Britain and in the USA and undertaken numerous commissions, both private and corporate. Penelope has travelled extensively to Morocco, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and the colour and energy of such countries has greatly inspired her work. She lived in Holland for 3 years and in Italy for a year, where she worked at the Verrocchio Arts Centre. She teaches privately and at the Heatherley School of Art in London.

"My paintings are direct emotional responses to the scene I'm trying to depict, whether it be a landscape in Scotland or a vibrant street scene in India. I am inspired by colour and energy and by the transforming and often fleeting nature of light.

The ever-changing tapestry of colour and movement in an Indian market or the continual shift of pattern in a cloudy sky; these things, by their nature, dictate the need to work fast, to try to capture the essence of something before it has passed. For that reason, I often work in watercolour on the spot, doing numerous studies later to be worked up into oil paintings in the studio."

Solo Exhibitions

2001
Friends Room at the V & A, London
2000
Wrightson & Co, North Yorkshire
1994
Art Moves, Amsterdam
1991
Piers Feetham Gallery, London
1989
The Studio Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

2006, 2005, 2004
Chase, Royal College of Art, London
2005
Rowley Gallery Contemporary Arts, London
2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1997
Great Western Studios Open Exhibition, London
2004
New Grafton Gallery, London
2003
Young Scottish Masters, Chicago
Landscape Into Art, Linton Court Gallery, Settle
Paintings From Morocco, Michael Parkin Gallery, London
2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998
Quantum Contemporary, London
2001
Panter & Hall Gallery, London
2000
Online Auction, Sothebys.Amazon.com
The Kiln Gallery, London
2000, 1999
Lena Boyle Fine Art, London
Michael Parkin Gallery, London
The Air Gallery, London
1999, 1998
Kensington & Chelsea Artist's Exhibition
The Gallery, Cork Street, London
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995
Aberdona Gallery, Alloa
1996, 1995
Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld
The Firth Gallery, Edinburgh
Contemporary Scottish Artists, National Arts Collection
1994, 1993
Annual Art Festival, Haarlem
Galerie Baumhaus, Edam
1994, 1993, 1992
Art Moves, Amsterdam
1991, 1990, 1989
The Studio Gallery, London
1988
Sue Rankin Gallery, London
Flying Colours Gallery, Edinburgh