Abigail Waddell
Landscape Artist
I’m a contemporary landscape artist painting in oils.
I paint mainly plein air, and sketch out most days. I love that I can combine it with virtually any outdoor activity. I then bring all of those oil sketches and my experiences of the day back to the studio to finish them off and create larger works. The studio is in beautiful countryside a stones throw from the Thames path, and a few minutes from the Cotswold Sculpture Park! I offer studio visits and workshops on site.
My main focus is on the relationship between the light on the land/ sea and the light in the sky. Cloud watching is meditative, the light dictates the mood of the piece, I aim to bring the experience of the whole day back to the viewer
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I live in the Cotswolds, and paint mainly local landscapes, inspired when out and about walking in local fields, villages and towns. I also paint scenes related to my favourite places in the UK-in particular NW Scotland ( where I have spent every summer for the past 25 years), also Wales, Devon and Cornwall.
Main Prizes, Exhibitions and Galleries
-British Art Prize, 2022 . Winner People’s Choice Award
-British Contemporary Art Award 2021 Overall Winner
-Gloucester ‘’Art in the City’’ Winner First Prize Plein Air Competition 2017
-Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury 2022- present
-Britishcontemporary.art on line gallery 2021- present
-Affordable Art Gallery, Burford Garden Co. 2016-2023
-National Trust Chedworth Roman Villa 2017-18 and Artist in residence 2019
-The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Art exhibition, Gardens Gallery 2018
-Regency Gallery Cheltenham Summer Exhibition 2018
-Gardens Gallery and COS 2015- present
