MIXED MEDIA: COLOUR, TEXTURE & LINE

PENELOPE ANSTICE

Penelope was born in Scotland and trained at Edinburgh College of Art where she obtained a BA (Hons) in Drawing and Painting.  She lived in London for a decade and in Italy and the Netherlands before returning to her native Scotland where she has a studio in Dundee.

Penelope has been running painting courses for over 20 years in Scotland, Italy, France and Spain as well as at the Heatherleys School of Fine Art in London.  She has travelled extensively to paint, visiting India numerous times as well as Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal and Kenya always with the aim to capture the fleeting moments of colour and energy these countries present.  

Penelope shows her work in galleries throughout the UK in both joint and solo exhibitions and undertakes many private commissions.  When not travelling her work is mainly landscape based, she likes to paint en plein air and to work up larger paintings in oil back in the studio.  She says ‘My work usually starts off on a figurative basis but back in the studio I like to follow my instincts and let the work drift a bit, away from the purely representational, into abstraction.’  

When teaching Penelope’s aim is to show students as much technique as possible.  She says ‘with sound knowledge of the essential elements of painting, students can begin to find their own voice in their work’