Biography

Petra was born in Oldham and grew up on the outskirts of Manchester. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and then worked for the Oldham Art Gallery for three years before returning to Newcastle for a teaching qualification. She then moved south to teach in High Wycombe, Reading and then Hillingdon before taking early retirement. Inspired by her curiosity and her love of travel she resumed her art life more fully. The results have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in several venues.

Painting has been and still is just a part of my life. I am lucky enough to enjoy the making of these canvasses and even luckier that people are interested in buying them so that then even more people can share them.

The central theme to the works is landscape whether that is countryside, buildings within it, seascapes or the feeling that has been evoked. Detail varies. It could be building shapes and decoration or the colour schemes that places suggest, May be it represents a journey made up of several images or thoughts that emerge as the painting is underway and then into the final piece that I invite you to share. Perhaps they will trigger your own feelings responses and memories.

I work mainly in Acrylics which allows a range of surfaces  from a  smooth watercolour style to thick impasto that might even include some collage. The colours I use are chosen for their expressiveness and will reflect a temperature or intensity of emotion behind the image.

Exhibitions