Victoria was born in South Yorkshire and now lives and works in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Her education began at Bretton Hall College before moving onto studying an MA at Huddersfield University.
Her studies into textile design meant she could explore with vigour the tangible, tactile qualities using unconventional materials gave her. Layering plaster with thick, undiluted oil paint gave rich, painterly textures with a sense of fragility and evocativeness.
More recently the use of a raw, organic colour palette, depicting elements of movement is the artist’s uppermost intention. Her work celebrates the simplest of forms and delivers them into a contemporary age that conveys honesty and emotion. The relationship between her ability to manoeuvre paint and express fluidity and energy, is clever yet unintentional.
There is an apparent flexibility in her creativity which is explorative and challenges the scale of how each form is depicted. Each one of her paintings takes her upon another journey; admitting that some of the textures created are accidental she develops these areas into the focal point for the next piece.
‘The small somewhat irrelevant experiences can hold the most significance. In this complex world of diversity, innovation and change sometimes the most simple and beautiful elements can go unnoticed. Exposing the subject in its most natural form has a more lasting resonance.’
Her work intends to make a historical gesture by bringing her perceptions to the attention of tomorrow’s world, a contemporary world which celebrates the positive elements of today.
