Collection: Gabriella Buckingham

"I'm fascinated by colour, light, and paint itself. In the last few years,
I've enjoyed using my intuition to paint, just as much as observing the
subtle changes of shape and colour as light shifts over a subject. I
enjoy a feeling of mystery as I paint, a sort of not knowing what will
appear and I feel that there’s a spiritual element in my landscape work.
With still-life painting, there is often a relationship or element of humour
which appeals to the illustrator in me.
Sometimes my paintings are bold and intuitive; at others, quiet and
observed, very much like I am as a person. I’m uncovering what I find
exciting to see and make. That could be portraying the way light falls
around a small still life in a variety of ways; or the feeling of a wild
freedom with the adventure of painting a landscape from imagination
and memory. There is an energy of attempting to make the invisible
visible in my work. Light always affects colour and form; so most of the
time I find myself exploring this whether I am working from life or not.
My work is about exploration and discovery in many ways.
I paint to feel adventurous and connected to something beyond me. My
practice is a quest for the feeling of freedom and joy that painting at its
best, can give you. It’s not always in the dramatic paintings, sometimes
it’s in the flow of the instinctive paint colour choices I make, or
achieving the exact colour of light on the curve of a bowl and the
elusive way the best paintings seem to make a surprise appearance.”

Bio
Gabriella has always lived in the East of England in Essex,
Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Surrey, in that order! For the last 20 years
near Cromer in North Norfolk with her husband, photographer Tony
Buckingham and two children. She lives ten minutes from the sea and
commutes to work across her untamed garden.
After completing a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design at Kingston Polytechnic,
as it was then, Gabriella worked for national magazines illustrating
everything from broccoli to romantic fiction. For three years she worked

as an in-house Christmas artist for International Greetings designing
cards and wrapping paper, and subsequently became a product
manager for another card company for two years before returning to
freelancing. She has illustrated many children’s books and created a
children’s gift brand called Moobaacluck which she ran for ten years.
Since 2019 she has devoted her time to her fine art taking part in her
first art fair which was a great success.

Since then she has sold many
paintings to clients worldwide, and locally during Open Studio events.
In 2020 some of her paintings were longlisted for the Jackson’s Art
Prize and The Ashurst Prize. Two other works were selected at the
final stages of ING Discerning Eye and The Royal Academy Summer
Exhibition that year. Gabriella's work has been chosen for the Sir John
Hurt Prize in Norfolk each time she has entered over the last 5 years
and in 2023 she was delighted to learn that both her entries to
the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition were chosen to be hung,
where both works sold on opening night and were also printed as a
card and art print for the RA shop. During this time Gabriella also
developed a few online art courses on her Brave In Paint online
teaching platform.