Bridget Greenwood

Bridget was born in 1961 and grew up in Cheshire, she attended Art College in the 1980s but only completed the foundation course due to unforeseen circumstances.  She then went on to have a successful career in advertising in London, only returned to painting again in 2020, due to lockdown and the emotional outlet she needed at that time. 

She has since had a successful solo exhibition with Galley 6 in Newark in 2021, a joint exhibition at The Lake Gallery on the Wirral in 2024 and has had her work exhibited in various galleries throughout the UK. Her work sells to private collectors worldwide.

My work is all about the landscape and my emotional reaction to it.  I paint intuitively using unplanned shapes and imagery to lead the work, I allow this freedom so accidents can happy, these accidents, or unintended marks are central to the work.  It is a balance between purposeful marks & shapes to freedom and unconscious painting.

Colour is at the forefront of my work, for me it is the colour choices that create the emotion, the calm and peace that comes from a muted harmonious palette.

My work might be informed by landscapes that I have photographed and walked in, but there isn’t an intention to copy or base it on a real landscape. More often or not I recognise the real landscapes only once the painting is completed.

- Bridget Greenwood