Ingrid lives and creates in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. She works mainly with acrylics, from thick bodied to inks, as the speed at which they dry allows her to work in many layers, and whether she is painting a landscape, figurative work, floral or abstract, she works into the surface, taking advantage of textures and transparencies and gradually building up the work."My main passion is colour, and I love to splash it around, pushing the colours on the substrate, watching the interactions and seeing where I can take them. I like it when the work tells me what it wants to be. I love to explore and experiment, and I am always looking for new and exciting methods and effects."
I am happy to accept commissions. If you like a particular work and would like something similar in a different size or colour combination please ask.
Selected works are available through:
https://bluethumb.com.au/ingrid-russell
Prints of selected works are available at:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/ingridr?asc=u
https://www.saatchiart.com
CV:
Dip. Teach 1999 Goulburn CAE, NSW Australia
BA Fine Art and Visual Culture, 2016, Curtin UT, Perth, WA, Australia
Finalist, Bluethumb Art Prize, Melbourne, 2018
Overall Winner, Penrith Regional Show, 2017
Commended, Blacktown Art Prize, 2009
People's Choice Award, Friends of Breamar Exhibition, 2005
Finalist, Blacktown Art Prize, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
Exhibitions:
Picturesque, BMCAN, Braemar Gallery Springwood, 2019
Bluethumb Art Prize, Melbourne, 2018
Dreaming, solo exhibition, Event Horizon Gallery, Katoomba, NSW. 2009
Blacktown Art Prize, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
Artpressions, duel exhibition, Breamar Gallery, Springwood, NSW, 2011
Collage of Artists, combined exhibition, Breamar Gallery, Springwood, NSW, 2003
Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre Annual Exhibition, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
Friends of Breamar Gallery Exhibition, Springwood, NSW, 2005
Statement
"My present body of work is an extraneous expression of remembered and imagined ideas. It is spontaneous and unplanned, developing on the substrate at will, and I am the conduit supplying the pigment and the energy to move it. I may have a notion of what I want to say when I start, but usually the work takes over and evolves, often into the unexpected. Inspiration inspires inspiration.""I invite my audience to bring their own experiences to the works, and find aspects of it that evoke their own remembered and imagined ideas. That creates a commonality between artist and audience that I find very exciting."
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