Philippa Cannan

Philippa Cannan aims to create a sense of timelessness in her work and for each painting to convey a feeling of its own reality: a felt or imagined space, to which the viewer may respond. Energy, movement and stillness are important elements and she aims to reflect these in a similar vein to that... More»

Philippa Cannan aims to create a sense of timelessness in her work and for each painting to convey a feeling of its own reality: a felt or imagined space, to which the viewer may respond. Energy, movement and stillness are important elements and she aims to reflect these in a similar vein to that of a piece of music or a dance, through her rather ethereal and dreamlike figures and images.

Animals, perhaps, symbolise life’s deepest energies: instinctual life. In Philippa Cannan’s work, the momentary glimpse of a horse and rider, a deer standing motionless, the movement of a horse, dog or bird in flight, are taken, through the process of painting, into an arena of day-dream, memory, or reverie, or perhaps what Freud described as a ‘free-floating attention.’ Painting is the means through which she expresses her sense of the connection between the more literal or concrete aspects of life and the many other dimensions of human experience.

Exhibitions:

2010: Painting Twenty Ten, Brighton University Degree Show
2009: Naked Eye Gallery, Hove.
2009: Angela Bailey Gallery, Petworth.
2009: New Works. Hop Gallery, Lewes
2008: Southover Grange Christmas Show. Lewes.
2008: The New Brewery Arts Gallery, Cirencester (Group show).
2008: Angela Bailey Gallery, Petworth.
2008: Hop Gallery, Lewes (Group Show)
2008: Pigment Freud, Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton
2007: Christmas Show. Unit 3 Gallery, Brighton.