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My Campbell MA (Fine Art) Original Contemporary Artwork |
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About the Artist |
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My believes passionately that her studies and training over the years have helped to create the disciplines to unleash her creative thinking. My has worked alongside leading artists including Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Professor Philip Melton at Edinburgh College of Art and has spent time in workshops studying with several other prominent artists, including Mo Jupp, John Maltby, Lys Hanson and Margaret Hunter. My has also lectured on study tours to Florence, Venice and Basel, Switzerland and has exhibited her work widely at galleries and venues in the UK and overseas. My travels extensively throughout Europe and USA, spending several months each year gaining additional inspiration and impetus for the latest paintings.
‘I breathe painting; I never cease thinking about it. And when I paint, I never really know what I will paint. I look at the many colours before me. I look at my blank canvas. Then, I try to seek equilibrium…. I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music .’Quotation by Joan Miro in ‘Close-up’ by John Gruen ‘Our feelings for a work of art is rarely independent of the place it occupies in art history……By the mere fact of its birth every great art modifies what arose before it; after Van Gogh, Rembrandt has never been quite the same as he was after Delacroix.’ Quotation by Andre Malraux in ‘The Voices of Silence’ |
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Copyright © My Campbell 2005-2012, All Rights Reserved |
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My Campbell was born in Liverpool and named Marion Campbell. Her nickname of My originated from her schooldays and has stayed with her ever since. My now lives with her husband in Abersoch, North Wales, where the quality of light, the hidden woodlands and the reed beds along the River Soch, combined with the changing moods and colours of the Irish Sea, provide a very special and often raw environment in which she works. 
The evocative paintings originate from numerous different sources including memory in relation to a place or event. The study of various historical movements and individual artists, both classical and contemporary, provide ongoing stimuli. The landscape is a constant point of reference and working in layers, she tries to capture the deeper more abstract qualities of a place. My's primary concern is the exploration of colour and texture on the picture plane with no attempt at photographic representation. The picture develops in an organic way, each brushstroke relating to the previous marks. The compositions evolve through the working process. To quote Oscar Goodall: "Sometimes something seems to happen and a momentum takes over, time becomes meaningless, inertia and thinking in terms of logic cease to exist. Self is gone."
