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My paintings often start with colour, inspired by colour combinations of still life subjects. The paintings and drawings are about beauty in everyday things, favourite china, shoes, cotton reels and cutlery, the memories and recollections that they spark. I love to focus in on the small things, buttons, pins, lettering, and imperfections, creases, chips and cracks.
I began collecting vintage clothing, from jumble sales, as an eccentric teenager in the late seventies. I love to paint dresses and jackets linking them with objects to tell stories about where a dress came from or what happened on a day it was worn. I love the way things wear, and the reasons why, a frayed cuff, a pulled thread, a lost or missing button.
I work in both oils and watercolours, liking them both equally for their very different qualities. I stretch my own canvases in a traditional way, using raw linen, zinc tacks and rabbit skin glue. My watercolours use the contrast of precise pencil drawing and a loose, fluid colour. I paint most days, often working on two or three pictures at a time, one standing up at an easel and another sitting down at my drawing board.
My paintings and drawings have been selected five times for the Royal West of England Academy and I have work in public and private collections. I sell work through exhibitions, mainly in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and the South West, and directly from my studio.
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Address:
golden valley cottage,morse lane drybrook,GL17 9BA
Email: mariettevoke.painter@gmail.com
Phone Number: 07759787046
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