Victoria Sebag

Victoria Sebag is a painter and fabric designer based on the Suffolk coast at Aldeburgh. She trained first at the Byam Shaw School of Art from 1988 to 1989 and then at the Slade School of Fine Art, taking her BA from 1989 to 1993.

Her work encompasses landscape and still life, and increasingly it is wild plants, loosed from the landscape to meander in intricate patterns and rhythms across the canvas. She is inspired by the elegant line work and considered negative space of Japanese prints, and by her own earlier working methods designing for fabric. A love of both the Japanese print artists of the early nineteenth century and the Abstract Expressionists of the twentieth informs her gestural marks, her surfaces and her use of colour, and she paints in oil, saturated in colour and teeming with life.

She has painted since her late teens and has built a following and a career with work in many private collections in the United Kingdom and abroad. Her solo exhibitions include Footpaths at The Courtyard Gallery in Aldeburgh, Paradise Lost, Paradise Found at The Dovecote at Snape Maltings, and Along the High Strand on the Kings Road in London, and she was a finalist for the VIA Arts Prize in 2020. She ran the fabric design studio Sebag Textiles from 2016 to 2020 and has taught at The Merlin School and Kite Studios in London. She lives and works between London and the Suffolk coast.