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Wendy Butler - Mixed Media Artist

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Wendy Butler - Mixed Media Artist

August 30th, 2014 - Hope Valley, De



Wendy is an experienced art teacher, artist and educational trainer, living in The Hope Valley, in the beautiful Peak District National Park, UK. She specialises in the creation of vibrant, richly textured abstract landscapes, inspired by the changing moods of her surroundings. Her subject is the way surfaces cover hidden depths and yet can reveal clues to the truth about what is going on underneath; just as the visible landscape shows not only the most recent aspects of its geology, but allows us to detect evidence of what has happened there in the past. Sometimes we are only allowed to see what appears gradually, through emerging mists and clouds, and so we need patience and time to understand more. Sometimes we simply have to dig deeper into nature itself.

Wendy’s intriguingly colourful surfaces are built in layers on which watercolours, acrylics, collages, pastels and drawing inks share space with handmade and digital text, adding tactile elements with found objects and collage materials. Her work is a fusion of creative ideas developed from time spent contemplating what she sees and aligning these observations with her own metaphysical, more personal, emotional terrain.

In all of her creative departures, including her workshop events, Wendy likes to use personal creative writing as a stimulus for expressing recent thoughts to develop fresh ideas for visual exploration. Her techniques reach out across a range of graphic and fine art media, as she is as much at home teaching with a calligraphy pen as with a palette knife. Her eclectic style is finding a new voice, since returning from two years working in Oman and realising that she really is a home bird. Her Arabian-inspired digital photographic experiments are now also beginning to make appearances in among the intriguing layers of her autobiographical landscapes.

Wendy can be contacted at:

Wendybutler4@gmail.com and by mobile: 07598 764941