Lilly Palmer - Painter
Lilly Palmer studied drawing and painting at the Edinburgh College of Art. Following university, she travelled to Italy on a Scholarship from the Royal Scottish Academy of Art to study in Florence.
After a couple of years of travelling and painting, Lilly went to Cambridge University and gained a post graduate certificate in education, she then spent a year teaching secondary art and design at Canford School in Dorset.
Lilly returned to England last year after 18 months travelling, and working in New Zealand and is currently living in Cranleigh with her husband and new son, Arthur. After a break from painting to start her family, she is looking forward to getting back to her own artwork and tutoring individual adults in oil and acrylic painting.
Lilly's art is a form of visual poetry. Through revelling in colour, light and texture she means to interpret the real into something almost purely decorative.
Based on the literary term of “pathetic fallacy” (the external projection of internal realities), Lilly's art projects human emotion onto an inanimate landscape.
Emotion is imbued within all of her paintings, but there is no need for an essay of words to elucidate that sentiment to others. Lilly feels that her paintings should be able to stand alone and have meaning derived purely from the enjoyment of seeing.
Her greatest influences are those of the Nabis, particularly Vuillard’s decorative forms of colour and pattern, and Turner for his immense emotional intensity of brushstroke and composition. She also revere the more contemporary art of Kurt Jackson, Michael Andrews and Fred Cummings.
After a couple of years of travelling and painting, Lilly went to Cambridge University and gained a post graduate certificate in education, she then spent a year teaching secondary art and design at Canford School in Dorset.
Lilly returned to England last year after 18 months travelling, and working in New Zealand and is currently living in Cranleigh with her husband and new son, Arthur. After a break from painting to start her family, she is looking forward to getting back to her own artwork and tutoring individual adults in oil and acrylic painting.
Lilly's art is a form of visual poetry. Through revelling in colour, light and texture she means to interpret the real into something almost purely decorative.
Based on the literary term of “pathetic fallacy” (the external projection of internal realities), Lilly's art projects human emotion onto an inanimate landscape.
Emotion is imbued within all of her paintings, but there is no need for an essay of words to elucidate that sentiment to others. Lilly feels that her paintings should be able to stand alone and have meaning derived purely from the enjoyment of seeing.
Her greatest influences are those of the Nabis, particularly Vuillard’s decorative forms of colour and pattern, and Turner for his immense emotional intensity of brushstroke and composition. She also revere the more contemporary art of Kurt Jackson, Michael Andrews and Fred Cummings.
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