Eileen Coxon spent her childhood in rural Hampshire. The area is famed for its natural beauty, instilling the artist with a life-long love of the natural world. Eileen trained as a painter at Norwich School of Art and now lives in Suffolk, surrounded by an agricultural landscape.
Daily walks in this landscape provide her 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. The artist does 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 and ditches 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.”
-Eileen Coxon
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