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Viv Owen

Joined Artfinder: Feb. 2016

Artworks for sale: 77

(5)

United Kingdom

Updates from Viv Owen's studio

  • Sky Portrait Artist of the Week

    Sky Portrait Artist of the Week

    I've really enjoyed drawing along with this series. Here's the full set of drawings. More drawings and prints available soon

    28 June 2020
    Sky Portrait Artist of the Week

    Sky Portrait Artist of the Week

    This week the sitter was Noel Fielding. I made two drawings, one in my Daily Drawings style using Pitt Artist's pens whilst the show was on air and he was moving about. The second (shown here) was in chalk pastel on black paper. I worked from a screenshot as I wanted to capture a smile: I hope it makes you smile too.

    04 June 2020
    Sky Portrait Artist of the Week

    Sky Portrait Artist of the Week

    Really enjoying drawing along with the winning artists and celebrity sitters on this weekly programme. Have a look at my gallery on Flickr for more of my drawings, and you can join in on the Sky TV Facebook page.

    17 May 2020
    Viv Owen chosen as one of Five2Watch by Axisweb

    Viv Owen chosen as one of Five2Watch by Axisweb

    Delighted to be selected as one of the weekly 'Five2Watch' by arts organisation Axisweb. The image they are using is 'Last'. Check it out in my shop.

    22 April 2020

    Bolam TV Guest appearance

    Artist Richard Bolam's TV programme with guests including Martyn Ware

    02 March 2020
    FLUX 2019

    FLUX 2019

    Part of the group exhibition FLUX again, this time at the National Army Museum, Chelsea, London

    27 September 2019
    Recent solo exhibition: Pause/Play at Westgate Studios

    Recent solo exhibition: Pause/Play at Westgate Studios

    Pause / Play - recent solo exhibition at Westgate Studios, part of Index Festival Open Studios Vivid freehand oil paintings convey the twitching dazzle of expressive faces captured from paused TV screens. In the Project Space, viewers encounter a grid of paintings in which their eyes can wander at leisure and play with fresh narratives: conflicts, romances and relationships hinted at in the arrangement of images. This was an epic seven years in the making, utilizing paintings from several different image cycles. I took the rare opportunity to display paintings as intended: a wall reminiscent of a cinema screen or video wall, keeping the rest of the gallery space bare to focus the viewers attention in the same way that cinema does. The grid has no centre painting, due to the even number displayed, so that the eye cannot settle, but instead follows the rivers of colour and dark that are created by the abrupt joins where one painting butts directly against another. In this way I made them jostle for our attention in the familiar pattern of a busy social media feed or ubiquitous billboard advertisements.

    27 September 2019
    Work in progress

    Work in progress

    Latest from the studio

    14 December 2018
    FLUX exhibition at Chelsea College of Art, London, April 2018

    FLUX exhibition at Chelsea College of Art, London, April 2018

    So happy to be part of this wonderful show! Enjoying the preview evening.

    23 May 2018
    Viv Owen

    Viv Owen

    16 September 2017
    Painting progress

    Painting progress

    Latest work on the painting: it's coming together.

    28 August 2017
    Work in progress

    Work in progress

    Latest painting underway from the studio: second layer, started today.

    13 August 2017