contact details
tel; 07855 866702 email; danafinchartworks@gmail.com
Selected exhibitions and commissions
2012 FSA, Canary Wharf
SNAP; Bankside (SLWA)
2011 Dulwich Open House
2011 Intergrowth commission (University of Oxford)
2011 Dulwich Library Group Show (SLWA)
2010 Greyfriar’s Art Centre, King’s Lynn, Showcase
2010 Worcester Open
2010 Bankside Group Show (South London Women Artists)
2010 Dulwich Library Group Show (SLWA)
2009 Logo and painting for Intergrowth 21st, Dept of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Oxford
2008 Bid: Ovada Gallery, Oxford, group show.
2005 Mural at Department of Experimental Psychology Library, University of Oxford
2004 Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, group show
2003 Karstadt, Bonn, Germany, group show
Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford Artweeks. Group show
2002 Magdalen Road Studios, group show
2001 Group show at Bonn Square, Oxford
2000 Ericssons/Vodaphone commission: one oil painting and twelve prints inspired by Henley Festival.
1999 Solo Exhibition “The Bay of Roses” at Ariel Centre Gallery, Totnes, Devon
1999 Group show “Never in a month of Sundays”, Dartington – various locations, installation and performance series.
1998 Solo exhibition “Salt Knowledge #2” Birdwood House, Totnes, paintings and installation.
1997 “SHIFT”, Dartington Arts Gallery, Devon. Solo Installation “Salt Knowledge”
1996 Poster Studio Gallery, London. Video, installation and text-based work “Ekphrasis”
1996 Contexture; Dartington College of Arts, Devon, degree show
1995 North Woods, Staverton, Devon. “Heaven and Earth” Forest public sculpture installation.
1993 Ways with Words Literature Festival, Dartington. “In the Beginning” Installation.
Art Education
1993-96 Dartington College of Arts BA(hons)
To me painting is a three way conversation between myself, the landscape and the paint. It is not always equal – sometimes one element will dominate over the others. I start with texture and refine with colour and mood, and try to let the paint be itself – fluid and malleable, and see where it takes me. As each painting progresses I add many layers, in a kind of reverse excavation, creating a surface that is complex and lively, that expresses the exuberance and energy of the natural landscape. I am not trying to make a representation, but to allow the viewer to recognise something of their own experience in the image.