Pippa’s influences as an artist are wide and varying. The work produced by many outsider artists is a great source of inspiration. It has urgency and imagination that she believes comes from an inescapable, pure and anarchic source of creativity that is innate. Grayson Perry’s work and the dreamlike work of Peter Doig have also captured her imagination recently.
She undertook an art foundation at the London Metropolitan University and then went onto the Central School of Speech and Drama to study theatre. Since she graduated she has been working professionally both as an artist and in theatre.
Pippa most enjoys working with oil on canvas, stained glass and taking photographs. She also uses a technique called table top printing, using oil paint on paper. This process involves building up layers of an image by painting directly onto a surface and printing these layers to build the overall image. The process allows room for spontaneity and improvisation.
Pippa is fascinated by story-telling through imagery. Another theme that runs throughout her work is an exploration of playfulness. She believes that in the simple (sometimes not so simple) act of taking time to play you become present to new ideas and let go of controlled/learned structures. You see things in a new way.
Below is an extract from ‘The playful path’ by Bernard De Koven
“Playfulness is all about being vulnerable, responsive, yielding to the moment. You might not be playing, but you are willing to play, at the drop of a hat, the bounce of a ball… You are open to any opportunity. You are loose. Responsive. Present.
You have to be present to enjoy the sunrise… be- cause otherwise you simply aren’t there to catch it. It goes by you as if it and you aren’t even there.
There’s nothing hard about being playful. The hard thing is let yourself out to play so that you have that choice, the hard thing is recognizing the opportunity, the brave thing is accepting the invitation.”
Pippa is available for commissions in oil on canvas and in stained glass, if you would like more information please feel free to email her.
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