Eileen Coxon
Eileen Coxon is a painter based in Suffolk, working in oil on canvas and in works on paper. She trained as a painter at Norwich School of Art, and a childhood spent in rural Hampshire instilled a lifelong love of the natural world.
Her work is drawn from daily walks in the agricultural landscape that surrounds her, and moves through varying degrees of abstraction.
Artist Statement
A childhood spent in rural Hampshire, in an area famed for its natural beauty, instilled a life-long love of the natural world. I have always drawn and painted and trained as a painter at Norwich school of Art.
I now live in Suffolk where I am surrounded by an agricultural landscape. Daily walks in this landscape provides my source material, mainly as memory. As well as the beauty of hedgerows, wild flowers and grasses at field margins and verges, there are also huge, intensively farmed fields of monoculture and industrial-style farm buildings. I do not seek to romanticise the landscape but to encompass the reality of modern farming and find a certain beauty in the geometry of fields, tracks, ditches etc., together with the traces and markings of cultivation.
Back in the studio, these memories and thoughts come together with the actual process of painting which is very much a two-way conversation between me and the painting itself. All of this leads to varying degrees of abstraction in the final work.