Bev Campbell Wild Sea

Bev Campbell discovered printmaking in 2012 at the Bristol School of Art and in 2020 committed to a full-time painting practice, training at the Newlyn School of Art on its Landscape Painting and Professional Mentoring course.

 

Her practice is rooted in capturing the atmosphere and essence of a place. Often working en plein air, she begins with quick, responsive sketches, sometimes while walking, before returning to the studio. There, she builds depth and mood through the pouring of translucent glazes over the surface, and the layering of colour to evoke the landscape’s shifting light, memory, and presence.

 

Bev’s work has appeared in a wide range of galleries and venues, often through competitive open calls, and is held in private collections across the UK and beyond. 

Artist Statement 

Now I’m a full-time painter, seeking, to both celebrate our landscape and to note its fragility. I love to explore our wilder places - moorland, forest, hills and coastline - through recent themes of birdsong, shorelines and the important buildings of remote, island, living.

In pursuit of painting I have lived in the Black Mountains of Wales, gone on residencies in Fair Isle a remote Scottish Island and now living on Dartmoor, embedding and finding and artistic communities to collaborate with .