Mary Liddell Flowering Allotment (Sion Hill)

Painter Mary Liddell studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. She works en plein air in the landscape and from first hand observation in her studio with flower arrangements and everyday objects. Colour is the primary focus in her dazzling floral still life works in both oil and watercolour. Mary studied at the Chelsea School of Art and Central School of Art in London in the 1980s under the tutelage of renowned visionary and surrealist painter Cecil Collins. Mary has exhibited widely in England and New Zealand, with solo shows in both Northern and Southern hemispheres, and has works in private collections in the UK, France, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the USA. The last few years she has exhibited with the Bath Society of Artists at Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, as well as other commercial galleries in England and Scotland.