EVE BLAND 

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Eve Bland is a contemporary British artist living and working in Devon. Growing up so close to the sea, along a dramatic stretch of coastline, has instilled in her an innate connection with the coastal landscape, from which she draws much of the inspiration for her work.

 

Remaining in the Southwest for the duration of her studies, at the University of Plymouth, allowed her to continue living beside the sea whilst undertaking her BA(Hons) Fine Art degree. This was important to Eve as a water-sports enthusiast but also as an artists; the pull of the ocean and the meditative effects of an unobstructed horizon, is fundamental to Eve's creative flow and process.

 

Embracing intuition and chance, her dynamic abstract paintings aim to convey a sensory experience of the coastal landscape. Within her practice she aims to capture the vast and often turbulent landscape through spacious paintings full of expressive marks and colours. Interested in colour association and evocation, she explores how a sweep of Prussian blue, combined with a smudge of white, can convey the calming hush of waves lapping onto the shoreline or a gentle breathe of wind brushing against the skin. 

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Themes of memory are often explored within her work, looking at how painting can be a metaphor for memory processes through the use of building and removing layers. Various materials, ranging from traditional paints, pastels and inks through to household products such as bleach solution, are  used within her paintings. Using found objects from the beach such as shells, sticks and feathers, to scratch into the surface or apply mediums to canvas, further maintains the connection between painting and place.

 

 

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