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"We say we feel empty, but the space is filled with unresolved emotions and thoughts."
Adrienne Blake
Adrienne paints from her home studio in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
She left college with an NDD and has since taught locally and taken part in workshops and school residences. She set up, and subsequently ran, an Art Centre Gallery for 15 years. She has painted murals for public space and private commission.
Adrienne has exhibited widely and shown as an invited artist both in England and Europe. She has work displayed in a number of corporate companies as well as private collections, both here and in the USA, France and Germany.
Publications include Guardian Catalogue of British Art Today, Art Review and Women's Art.
Her main influences are gender, human condition, contemporary, figurative and still life. From the 1970s, she has been working around the feelings of rejection and the empty hollow space we carry around inside of us. Adrienne's interest lies in the line and colour that surround the object or subject of her paintings.
"Letting go of the aesthetic appeal of an object means it takes on a more personal significance - my knowledge of myself is under scrutiny as the objects in themselves are of no interest to me. I like to use a minimal pallet so as to explore line, and the bareness of the negative spaces work to emphasise the marks I am making. When working with more colour, the paintings become more abstracted as I am working in the negative spaces and my concerns turn more to colour. In my painting I look for unity between line and mass, harmony and chaos."