Studio Sale | Amanda Blunden

AMANDA BLUNDEN

Amanda Blunden is a British artist living in South West London where she has her studio.

She has a BA Hons degree in Fine Art where she studied at Leeds Polytechnic and her artistic career has included murals; surface pattern design for companies including Manchester City Art Gallery and fashion designer, Jane Shouls Design; paper-mache furniture and grandfather clocks; and painting. Her work has been featured in leading Interior magazines, Sunday supplements and on TV.

Amanda is represented by Hicks Gallery in London, Murus Art and The Art Buyer in Surrey.

She has exhibited her paintings at the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition at Bankside Gallery, London (2018, 2019 and 2020) where her monoprint, ‘Night Pool’ also won the Intaglio Printmaker’s Prize at the National Original Print Competition in 2017.

Two paintings were accepted by The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour for their 208th Exhibition at the Mall Galleries shown in September 2020.

Amanda has also exhibited in London, both in solo shows, including ‘Inside, Out’ for Sprout Arts.

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

2021

Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon, SW London
Christmas Show
Regency Townhouse, Brighton and Hove - Group Show, 'Out of the Blue' Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London With the art Buyer

Hicks Gallery, London June Show The Art Buyer - Spring Show ( online) Mall Galleries, 208th RI Painters in Watercolour Exhibition
2020
Solo show, 'Inside, Out', Sprout Arts, London
RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2019
Roy's Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
Roy's Art Fair, The Barge House, Oxo Tower, London
RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2018
RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2017
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Winner of The Intaglio Printmakers' Award 2017

artist biography

'I feel that my paintings have evolved from the heavily textured and architectural paintings of art school days and years of constructing furniture and clocks from papier-mache to their current form - softer, emotive and ethereal in nature.
I strive for space but also tension in these emotional landscapes which are either based on memory or imaginings.
I am always 'chasing the sublime' in my own way - trying to create impact on the senses where words won't do'.

amanda.blunden@gmail.com www.amandablundenart.com