Gabriella Buckingham
Gabriella Buckingham has worked in the creative industries for three decades and has lived in North Norfolk since 2003.
Over the last few years her paintings have reached the final stages of the Jackson's Art Prize, The Holt Festival Art Prize (Now the Holt ArtProjects Awards), the inaugural Mannington Art Award, The Discerning Eye, The ING- Figurative Art Now. A still life painting featured in the 2025 RA calendar and another as a print and greeting card after being shown in 2021 and 2023 at the RA Summer Exhibition. This year a piece has been selected for the Britten Pears Summer Exhibition in Suffolk. Gabriella currently exhibits at The Point Contemporary, Cromer; The Cambridge Contemporary, Trinity Street, and Allen Hall gallery, Glandford, Norfolk. She will be a featured artist at the Biscuit Factory Gallery in Newcastle in Summer 2027. In 2000 she created an online Experimental Still Life course that many budding artists have taken since, via her teaching platform braveinpaint.com
Artist Statement
Colour is what I am excited by primarily, closely followed by feeling and form. I have been known to make monochrome paintings when the mood fits, although they are a rarity.
I'm equally drawn to abstracts, landscape and still-life work because I enjoy using my imagination and almost channelling imagery, just as much as observing subtle changes in mood and tone when I'm working from life.
I want to explore what I can portray. Sometimes I will construct a still-life from found objects and enjoy observing the way light falls and the interplay of colour or I may invent objects to explore relationships and composition, or mix both approaches. The behaviour of the paint itself is fascinating to me. Continued discovery is the driver behind the variety in my work. I am not interested in limitation as an artist except as a constraint to break free of.
There is an ever present love of mystery that, combined with fragments of memory and a sense of place, comes out more in my intuitive work, be it landscape or pure abstraction. The more I paint, the more I see how much potential there is in combining imagination and memory with objective reality.