Georgina Shepherd

Drawing and painting from direct observation is the first and most direct point of contact in the

process and materialisation of Georgina’s paintings.

Rarely without a sketchbook to hand, her work develops from initial studies prior to development

to larger studio canvases where her personal interpretation attempts to make still what is constantly

changing.

 

Her work is varied and she utilises a range of media and surfaces dependent upon the suitability of

the subject. These include oil paint, acrylics, inks, charcoal, fibre pens, graphite and watercolours.

During the last few years Georgina has been walking in the South Shropshire hills producing a series

of en plein-air sketches that have proved to be a highly inspirational and challenging experience. In

addition, studies of rocks and craggy formations have also stimulated depictions of geological drama

that have spectacular structure and variety of rock types, strata, faults, colour and texture. These

practices feed and inform her studio paintings.

 

Her inspiration stems from the notion that we remember certain things very vividly; we have

recollections of journeys, scenes, encounters, weather, sounds, atmosphere but only snatches of

these moments are retained. She regards her role as an observer of such fleeting moments where

Georgina’s personal interpretation of the place describes the prism of the occasion.

At the heart of the work is an attitude; to preserve the moment. Her expressive paintings hover

between abstraction, landscape and figuration. They are a memory map of a lived experience.