Artist: Samantha Payne  ASGFA, SLWA

Artist Biography:

My work falls into two categories – drawing and textiles, each fuelling the other.  Primarily, I am concerned with mark making and how it can create space. Drawing is fundamental to all my work and working from first hand observation is, I believe, crucial. I enjoy quintessentially ‘English’ scenes as subject matter and particularly admire the work of Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, Stanley Spencer and John Piper.

As a teacher of Fine Art Textiles and Drawing for the past eighteen years, I have been enabled to experience the progression of an idea and the consequent effects of this on the work of the pupil and the teacher.  This keeps the work of both exciting and fresh.  It is this constant dialogue which inspires me.



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1987 – 1990
BA (Hons) Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design specialising in Fine Art Textiles.  
William Atkinson Prize; Coates Prize  

Exhibitions:
September ‘07        SGFA, Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London
January ‘08            SLWA, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
October ‘08            SGFA, Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London
November ‘08        JAGS Art Fair and Online Auction, London
April `09                 Greenstede Gallery, Chequermead Community Arts Centre,
                              East Grinstead, Society of Graphic Fine Art
 

Education work:
1990 – Working in Secondary education Art & Design
2006 – Head of Art, James Allen’s Girls’ School, Dulwich, London