Artist Profile - Plum Neasmith
Floribunda: they keep their light
Medium: Mixed media on board
Measurements: 50 x 50 cm framed
Year: 2023
Price: £650 plus delivery
Ballinglen: to fully know a space
Medium: Mixed media on board
Measurements: 96 x 96 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £2,500 plus delivery
Ballinglen: the air is honey still
Medium: Mixed media on board
Measurements: 65 x 65 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £950 plus delivery
The Field:the day grew older
Medium: Mixed media on board
Measurements: 80 x 80 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £1,500 plus delivery
Floribunda: they keep their light
Medium: Mixed media on board
Measurements: 50 x 50 cm framed
Year: 2023
Price: £650 plus delivery
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Biography
Based in Cheltenham, Plum Neasmith graduated with a BA (Hons) in Painting & Drawing from the University of Gloucestershire. As an undergraduate, she won the prestigious Grant Thornton Travel Award and travelled to Chicago. Her striking paintings on panel demonstrate her unique style of representing real places in a subtle, layered manner verging on abstraction. Using photography as a starting point, she looks for composition, form and juxtaposition of colour. Additional influences are the written word: both the form of letters and their meaning.
Plum’s starting point for a painting is often an experience of place. She does not work directly in front of a subject but creates from many sources, frequently distant in time. It is a process concerned with puncturing the fiction of what appears to be real to reveal something new or highlight what is taken for granted or otherwise dismissed.
Residencies and workshops have included: Baer – Iceland, Verrocchio – Italy and Ballinglen – Ireland.
Plum’s work has been shown widely throughout the UK including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and The Royal West Academy Open Exhibition.
Artist Statement
The starting point for a painting is often an experience of place. The work and its meaning evolves in the studio through the action of distillation and translation. Process and chance are a fundamental part of the process as well as utilising the often slow, indirect and multi-layered nature of memory. The work is trying to remember something perhaps through the freezing of time, to reveal something new about a subject as well as attempting to capture its essence or illusory nature.
"…to paint not the thing but the effect it produces" - Mallarme