Constance Regardsoe

Award-winning Constance Regardsoe is a UK based artist. An enthusiastic wild swimmer Constance has a longstanding fascination with water and uses it to express time and impermanence ideas. The intricacy of light and water patterns in her paintings speak of transience; a brief split second sooner or later in the captured source image would alter them radically. By contrast, the fleeting moment captured in each of her paintings juxtaposes with the time-consuming painting process she employs, each moment painstakingly recreated over time, like an insect preserved in amber. Figurative work in her paintings reminds the viewer of our collective smallness; in her more abstract pieces, the figure takes on a radically altered state, a visual reminder of our transience and the inevitability of being changed by our surroundings.   


"I have always been drawn to water, and am an enthusiastic wild swimmer. I like how the experience of being in water reminds us of our smallness, and I try to express this in my work by examining how the water distorts and shifts the body. My pieces are also about time; as a reference, I paint from photographs with a short exposure, and the brief split second captured is then painstakingly transferred to canvas over many many hours."

Awards
The overall winner of the 115th BSA Annual Exhibition
Winner of the 115th BSA Annual ‘Young Artist’ Prize
Joint winner of the 2019 Art Academy London Peer Prize

Exhibitions 2020
168th RWA Open Exhibition
115th BSA Annual Exhibition
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition
Exhibitor at the Discerning Eye Annual Exhibition

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