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Victoria Kennedy
Painterly drawings of exotic flowers, wild plants and seed
heads using rich watercolour, ink and charcoal.
The ephemeral nature of the dark reeds and bulrushes,
rhododendron bushes and delicate waterlilies around the lake
where I live, interwoven with observational drawings from my
tangled collection of dramatic and fragile hydrangeas, sunflowers and artichokes are a constant source of fascination and inspiration to my paintings. Travels to Provence and Andalucia as
well as the Suffolk coastline and the woods where I live, continue to provide me with ideas, sketching local plants, landscape
and adding to my collections of beautiful unusual objects,
dried flowers and seed heads. I recently studied watercolour
painting with an RWS artist in London, which has developed
my work and continued interest in the concept of art forms in
nature, giving my work a more ethereal quality and developing
the ‘Wet on Wet’ technique, relying on a spontaneous merging
of paint on damp paper to create form combined with more
stylish controlled line and texture.
I completed a BA(Hons) Degree in Printed Textiles at
Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts in
1994 before becoming a freelance textile designer with a London design house. Following that I joined Anokhi Handworks - a
contemporary Indian clothing and textiles company with shops
in Kensington Park Road/Kings Road, London. I was part of a
small creative team designing collections produced in Jaipur
and Delhi, where we worked with local Indian block printers
and factories.