ceri green

Biography

Ceri gained an MA in Interior Architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and has since worked and taught in the profession for over 20 years; this has instilled a profound appreciation of the effects of environment on our well-being, the importance of connection to nature and an interest in ‘sense of place’ – values which underpin Ceri’s painting practice.

Based in rural Northumberland and having grown up in the North East of England, Ceri has an enduring love of its expansive, wild landscape and rugged coastline. Inspired by the transience of light, colour, nature’s energies and feeling of space; Ceri seeks to evoke these qualities in her paintings.

Most of Ceri’s work is derived from observational sketches, in a variety of media, which aim to record light, tone and specific landscape conditions; these form the basis of larger work. The painting process itself takes a more consciously expressive, intuitive approach, as a response to the raw, ephemerality of nature. Paint is built up in layers, using palette knives, brushes, rags, anything to hand, to create rich colour and textural quality; texture playing an increasingly important role in the tactile experience of the painting’s surface - this combination of techniques has led to work of a semi-abstract nature, allowing space for poetic interpretation.