“ …to create atmospheric and playful paintings that capture the essence of form and movement and the feeling of a time and place.”

Sophie lives and works in Brighton. With the sea as a backdrop she is surrounded by an ever-changing environment which is explored through her fluid, experimental style of painting.

Travel continually influences Sophie’s work and is a constant theme running through her kaleidoscopic paintings. Memories of a stunning landscape are a constant source of reference from deserts, glaciers and forests to ramshackle seaside towns. Combining these factors she allows her paintings to take on a life of their own, as they metamorphose into landscapes full of hazy memories, layers of colour, areas of solid form, mark making and motifs. The abstract and experimental nature of Sophie’s paintings allow the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way, as she creates a playground for the imagination.

Last summer Sophie took to the beach and a new series of works were painted on location, in Sussex and Cornwall.