About me
Lisa Micklewright
is an award winning
British Artist
Primarily a landscape painter, her strong sense of structure and flair for abstract pattern are balanced with an ability to imbue her observed subjects with an intensely atmospheric mood and vision.
Lisa has always had a fascination with looking at the world from above and uses maps, satellite imagery, travel and a “sense of place” as an integral part of her work process and has made a series of “aerial landscapes”.
“ I think there are certain configurations, patterns and forms in nature which can lead to a harmonious, energised beauty.”
Inspired by these perspectives, her interest in and feeling for the dynamics of mark-making, line, tone and colour allow her to vividly interpret the patterns and shapes found in both the human and natural world.
Early Influences
Both my parents were artists
Jane Maltby, (1932-2008), trained in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, in Paris and under Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. She taught at Southampton and Plymouth Schools of Art.
Keith Micklewright, (1933-2020), trained at the Slade under William Coldstream. He was there with his great friend, the illustrator Raymond Briggs, who he first met at Wimbledon School of Art. In 1955 he won a prestigious Abbey Minor Scholarship to the British School in Rome. He was Head of Foundation at Bournemouth School of Art for many years and his book “Drawing, Mastering the Language of Visual Expression” was published by Lawrence King into French, Spanish and Chinese, which became a set book for many US universities. Throughout this time he continued to paint.
Keith Micklewright (right), 1955 in Rome with Joe Tilson.
My grandfather artist and illustrator
GP Micklewright, (1892-1951)
My uncle, the artist and illustrator Robert F Micklewright, (1923-2013)
My brothers godmother was the set designer and photographer Julia Trevelyan Oman (1930-2003) and my godfather was the artist Ben Hartley (1933-1996),who sent me incredibly beautiful letters and birthday cards.
At St Katharines in Ringwood Hampshire
This incredibly rich and stimulating environment, spent mostly at St Katharine’s, interjected with cultural visits to London and beyond, plus regular trips to explore France in our VW camper van, hugely influenced me becoming the painter I am today.
Looking at art and finding my connection to it plays a vital role, be it Pieter Breuegel’s” Harvesters” or “Hunters in the Snow”, The Lorenzetti Brothers “Good and Bad Government”, Egon Schiele’s beautifully seen lines and shapes, Early Mondrian’s clouds and trees, Edvard Munch or Indian Moghul paintings colour and contained shapes. Bonnard or Rothko’s painterly vibrant colour or Hockney and Diebenkorn’s exciting viewpoints. It may simply be an individual piece, serendipituosly seen. This pleasurable list goes on!
Education
1987-1989 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Post Graduate Higher Diploma
1983-1987 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL BA (Hons)
1982-1983 Bournemouth College of Art and Design, Foundation Diploma
Google Earth arrives!
note from Euan Uglow
in the f/figurative studios, Slade
Awards
Catherine Maude Pearce Scholarship
Rosa Morrison Post-Graduate Scholarship
David Bayley Slade Scholarship painting the landscape in SW France
The Elizabeth Greenshield’s Foundation Award ($8,000 Canadian Award for figurative painting)
British Institution Fund Award (R.A.) (1st Prize)
Boise Scholarship (visit to U.S.)
Finalist Winsor and Newton Young Artist of the Year Award
Second Elizabeth Greenshield’s Foundation Award ($8,000 Canadian Award for figurative painting)
Corporate and Private Collections
The British Gas Collection, The Arthur Anderson Collection, The Grand Hotel, Cap Ferrat, The Sheraton Hotel Group, General Medical Council, National Reinsurance Corporation and Daiwa (Europe Bank).
Work in private collections in the UK, US, Netherlands, Belgium, France and Japan.
Exhibitions and Podcast
“Slade Exhibition” Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
“Young Contemporaries” The Orangerie, Holland Park, London
“The Figurative Exhibition” Robertson Gallery, Bedford
“Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition” Mall Galleries, London
“Slade of the North” Dean Clough, Halifax
Leicestershire Exhibition for Schools and Colleges,Beaumanor Hall, Loughborough
“Artworks in the Corporate Environment”, New Academy Gallery, Business Art Galleries, London
Took U.S. students on tours of the Tate Gallery
Group Show Kingston Hill Gallery
“The Discerning Eye” Odette Gilbert section, Mall Galleries, London
Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2 seasons), East Sussex
“A New Perspective”, Leighton House, London
“Six Slade Graduates”, The Heffer Gallery, Cambridge
Royal Institute of Water Colours Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
“Space and Structure”, Atticus Gallery, London
London Art Schools Exhibition, Bedford
“The New London Group, A Second Perspective”, Leighton House, London
Group Show Marryat Gallery, Richmond
“Art of Folly”, New Academy Gallery, London
1993 One Person Show, Cadogan Gallery London SW3
1994. Work with Business Art Galleries, Anna Bornholt Associates, Project Art, Lynne Stern and Linnet Feilding Art Consultancy
1995. Mitsukoshi Gallery, London
1996. Work with Sarah Myerscough Associates, Anna Bornholt Associates, Art Management International and Business Art Galleries.
1997. The Curwen Gallery, London
1998. Earl of Smith Gallery, Leamington Spa
1999. Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
2000 Crown Estates Millennium Exhibition, New Academy Gallery and Curwen Gallery, London
2001 Joint Exhibition with Ann Gardner, Bedford
2006 West Square Exhibition, London
2007 West Square Exhibition, London
2010 “Slade Painters 20 Years On” She Has A Space, London
2014 Quest Gallery, Bath
2014 Gallery 8, London SW1
2020 The Gallery at Green and Stone joint exhibition with Ann Gardner postponed due to Covid 19
2021 Start using Instagram and selling work on line.
2021 PODCAST interview with Bob Chaundy for www.consideringart.com click here to listen
2022 May 16th-22nd The Gallery at Green and Stone
2023 October 9-15th The Gallery at Green and Stone 251, Fulham Road London SW3 6HY
Gallery 8, St James London SW1
