BELINDA KING
 Biography

I was brought up in Kenya and studied painting at St Martins School of Art in London followed by a postgraduate teaching diploma at Culham College in Oxfordshire. I spent several years teaching art before giving up to raise a family and concentrate on my own work. I was an original member and former chair of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop in Sudbury and a member for many years of 12PM, Twelve East Anglian Printmakers.  At present I am concentrating on painting rather than printmaking.

Since 1974 I have taught drawing, painting and printmaking in Adult Education, most recently at Wilson Marriage Adult Education Centre in Colchester, Essex and Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk. I now run regular private classes and short courses in Assington in Suffolk where I live.
I am a member of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop.  

 Artist’s statement
After graduating as a painter I worked as a printmaker for many years before returning to painting
 Many of my prints are about the human psyche. These images are largely allegorical, with sources ranging from mythology and religious imagery to dreams and memories of a childhood in Africa. The images do not stem from any particular belief, but rather from a search for our cultural origins and archetypes, which I use to express feelings and ideas about humanity in general.
I employ a variety of printmaking techniques, including wood engraving, wood and linocuts, screenprints, etching, intaglio collagraphs and monoprints.
Recently I have returned to landscape painting in oils, acrylics and watercolour.
These paintings are often based on very quick pencil sketches without too much detail which leaves me free to interpret them as I wish. I am more concerned with the rhythms and mood of a landscape than detailed representation, and some of the paintings move towards abstraction. I am particularly drawn to dramatic fleeting effects of light and much of my inspiration is drawn from France and Italy where the light is more vibrant. In Britain the storms of the last couple of years have encouraged me to develop a darker mood in my paintings, which relates to feelings of foreboding about the future of the planet.
Sonia Carvill, reviewing my last solo exhibition in the East Anglian Daily Times, wrote of my landscape paintings: ‘Vibrant, joyous, liberating, they are striking in their all-engulfing sense of energy’
My prints and technique are featured in a book “Printmaking: Traditional and Contemporary Techniques” by Ann d’Arcy Hughes and Hebe Vernon-Morris, published in 2009.
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions in the UK
1995
       Printworks, Colchester, Essex  (solo)
1996
       Crypt Gallery, Seaford, Sussex   (solo)
1996
        Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury, Wilts (solo)
1996        The Garden Room Gallery, Lewes, Sussex (solo)
 1997        The Old Fire Engine House Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire (solo)
 1998        Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk (solo)
 1998        Cambridge Contemporary Arts Gallery, Cambridge
 2000        Woodgates Gallery, East Bergholt, Suffolk
2003        Hintlesham Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (2-person)
 2004        Hintlesham Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk (solo)
 2007        Neil Jacobs and Friends, The Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Suffolk
               The Crooked House Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk
 2008        Group exhibition, Cobbold and Judd Fine Art, Orwell Park School
               Ipswich, Suffolk
2009    





Exhibitions Elsewhere
 2000        Galerie Latteman, Darmstadt, Germany
 2001        Wenniger Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
  
 2010 exhibitions
13th - 14th March  at Assington Village Hall CO10 5LW
 30th April - 5th May - Gallery 47, Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, Suffolk
Contact Email
belindaking@btinternet.com
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