Amanda Ansell
Amanda Ansell is a British painter whose work is rooted in a sustained engagement with landscape, water, and the emotional resonance of place. Her paintings use distilled forms, floating motifs, and layered colour to explore how environment shapes perception. Through subtle shifts in tone and translucent overlays, her artworks create spaces that feel both familiar and dreamlike, inviting viewers into a quiet dialogue between painter, memory, and nature.
Born in Sudbury, Suffolk, Ansell studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design and The Slade School of Fine Art. After eight years of studio practice in London, she returned to East Anglia in 2006 to undertake an artist residency at Firstsite, reconnecting with the landscapes that continue to inform her work.
Amanda Ansell exhibits widely in the UK and internationally, with paintings held in public and private collections. Her work has been shown at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Huddersfield Art Gallery, and venues in the USA and China. She is a member of Contemporary British Painting and represented in the Priseman Seabrook Collection. Ansell lives and works on the Suffolk–Essex border.
Artist Statement
My paintings are made in response to intimate spaces, watery places. The pictures are constructed through a layering system, building up films of paint which come together to create an image of contemplation. I am interested in the translucency of materials, delicate details and variations in the overlapping of colour; the point at which two different fields meet and touch. Sometimes the painting becomes very physical in appearance, where some layers merge and mix together and others rest on top. The aim, through this process, is to evoke the feeling of what lies beneath. By pursuing a formative harmony, I am seeking to give a new often purely abstract form for the environment around me.