Olivia Wells
Description
Artist: Olivia Wells
Title: Dolce
Medium: Oil paint
About
Olivia was born it Tokyo (1991) and has a Print MA from the RCA. Prior to this, she spent two years learning traditional drawing and painting methods at the Florence Academy of Arts and has BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Durham University.
“On clearing my palette at the end of a painting session, as I scraped my knife across the surface, threads of pigment would collect in the nape of the palette knife. ‘What a waste not to use these random and beautiful constellations’ I would think as I wiped it into a rag. And so finally, after a particular painting session where perhaps recycling or some similar theme had hummed in the back of my mind, I started to redistribute these pigment collections onto panels, creating informal paintings. They became a kind of shadow to the abstract paintings I was working on. They were a rebirth of the discarded material.
When I was asked to take part in the ‘incubator’, this felt like the most apt thread of my practice to apply. An egg is either discarded or becomes a source of creativity. On fertilisation, a constellation of seemingly random material takes on a life of its own.”
Instagram handle is @olivia.wells.studio
Terms and Conditions:
All eggs must be collected in person if possible from Chichester Festival Theatre, or can be hand delivered if you live within a 50 mile radius.
For any successful bids from further way or internationally please contact Appeal Director Sarah Mansell to confirm postage, which will be at the bidders expense: sarah.mansell@cft.org.uk
