Wendy’s practice reflects her interest in how one intuitively ‘reads’ and reacts to faces from fleeting impressions, and the subtle combination of features, even if they are mostly absent or covered, that contribute to human expression. “I am attempting to convey the tricky and largely indefinable nature of expression, mood and person using the malleable and constantly shifting nature of paint to produce a response, not with sharp reproductive clarity but rather by blurring or completely removing detail so the painting works through engagement with the viewer by suggestion, not description.”
Wendy’s practice reflects her interest in how one intuitively ‘reads’ and reacts to faces from fleeting impressions, and the subtle combination of features, even if they are mostly absent or covered, that contribute to human expression. “I am attempting to convey the tricky and largely indefinable nature of expression, mood and person using the malleable and constantly shifting nature of paint to produce a response, not with sharp reproductive clarity but rather by blurring or completely removing detail so the painting works through engagement with the viewer by suggestion, not description.”
Wendy Saunders is an Australian born painter living in London. As a figurative artist with a strong interest in how human identity is ‘read’ from scarce visual information, she works in oil painting faces from a wide range of media sources with a particular interest in women and society. She has been selected for Threadneedle Prize 2013, the Open West 2014 and exhibited in various group shows. She is a member of the peer group for Contemporary British Painting.
Exhibitions
2016 Slippery & Amorphous, Contemporary British Painting, St Marylebone Crypt, London
2015 Gesamtkunstwerk, HTH Art Centre, London
2015-16 Contemporary British Painting Group Show, St Marylebone Crypt, London
2015 Ing Discerning Eye, Mall Gallery, London
2015 HEADS Studio One Gallery, London
2015 Summer Salon Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2015 Documentary Realism:Painting in the Digitial Age,Contemporary
British Painting London
2015 Disturbance, Atom Gallery, London
2014 Red X Mas - Studio1.1 - London
2014 Carthal Smyth 'Comfortable Man' album debut &
Exhibition, London
2014 Longlist Anthology Charlie Smith Gallery London
2014 ZAP Summer Exhibition, London
2014 Open West, The Wilson,Cheltenham Art Gallery,
Cheltenham.
2013 Christmas BOGOF, WW Gallery, London
2013 ZEITGEIST Exhibition, London
2013 Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, London
2013 On the Street Gallery, Crouch End Festival
2013 Tasty Modern, Schwartz Gallery, London
2012 Christmas BOGOF, WW Gallery, London
2012 Seeing in the Dark Exhibition, Rye, Kent
2012 Alas Autumn Residency Exhibition London?
2012 Fine Art Exhibition, Citylit Institute, London
2012 Painters Exhibition, The Old Fire Station,London
2012 Look Up, Crouch End Festival, London
Education
2010 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Citylit Institute
2012 Fine Art, CityLit Institute, London
Residencies
2012 Alas Artists Residency, Matt Roberts Arts, London???
Publications
Slippery & Amorhous : Exhibition Catalogue
Documentary Realism:Painting in the Digital Age by Robert Priseman.
2015 Seabrook Press
PrisemanSeabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting
Catalogue 2015
Open West Catalogue 2013
Threadneedle Prize Catalogue 2013
