Eleanor Campbell

Eleanor studied for her BA at Glasgow School of Art and, throughout her life, she has followed in the footsteps of her family as artists and creators. She pursued a career of graphic design and illustration and, later in life, returned to focus on her art. She has carried out numerous commissions and exhibits as a full-time painter in the Cotswolds. Eleanor's semi-abstract landscape paintings express emotions, memories and responses to the world around her. Having lived on the west coast of Scotland, with its rugged coastline, then moving to the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, she has enjoyed the best of both contrasting terrains for inspiration. With confident and knowledgable use of colour, she captures the essence of the landscape, leaving visible brush strokes, layers beneath and making use of mark-making tools and mixed media. Using chance application of paint and combining these elements into a semi-abstract style, she loves big skies and wild places and takes her sketchbook on her daily dog walks to capture the spirit of a place. Returning to her studio, she creates effective compositions to convey a sense of light, space and drama. Beyond landscape, Eleanor enjoys producing still life art which is occasionally more graphic or realistic in style, using mixed media and painting from life whilst exploring our material world through her semi- abstract painting style.