“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

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