
“Painting is meditative. I liken it to the moment when you’re underwater and swimming towards the surface – a surface that identifies itself by the light that breaks through. In the same way that reaching the surface means you’re surviving, the light within the painting maintains the equilibrium.”
Kelly Washbourne
Education
2002 | Fine Art BA, Falmouth University
BTEC Art Foundation, Loughborough University
Prizes / Awards
2016 | WAC Awards short list Bishops Palace Wells
Select Exhibitions
2024|Reflection on Lighthouse, Branch Arts, Gothic House, Oxfordshire
2023|Kelly Washbourne, Jeannie Avant Gallery, London
2017|London, Stockholm Affordable Art Fairs
2016|House Fair Olympia, London
2015|House Fair Olympia, London
2014|Spirit of Summer Olympia, London
2012|Spirit of Summer Olympia, London
2011|London, New York, Singapore Affordable Art Fairs
2011|Spirit of Summer Olympia, London
2010|Brussels, Singapore, London, Bristol, New York Affordable Art Fairs
2010|Spirit of Summer fair Olympia, London
2010|Paint, Will’s Art Warehouse, London
2010|Joint Exhibition at The Vaults, Birmingham
2009|Solo exhibition: Paul McPherson Gallery, London
2009|London Affordable Art Fair
2009|Glasgow Art Fair
2009|New York, Amsterdam Affordable Art Fairs
2008|Solo exhibition: Paul McPherson Gallery, London
2008|London Affordable Art Fair
2008|Glasgow Art Fair
2008|New York, Amsterdam, Affordable Art Fairs
2007|Group exhibition Will’s Art Warehouse, London
2007|Group Exhibition, Tinsmiths, Hereford
2007|London, New York, Paris, Amsterdam Affordable Art Fairs
2007|Glasgow Art Fair
2006|Group exhibition Longleat, Wiltshire
2006|Group exhibition Tinsmiths, Ledbury
2006|Urban Organic, Queen St Gallery, Hampshire
2005|Group exhibition, The Courtyard, Hereford
2005|Group exhibition, Tinsmiths, Ledbury
2005|Group exhibition, The Point, Cardiff
2004|Kelly Washbourne at The Kings School, Worcester
2004|Group exhibition, The Sherridon Russell Gallery, London
2003|Group exhibition, The Custard Factory, Birmingham
2003|Abstract, Tarnished Halo Gallery, Birmingham