Pippa BLAKE

Pippa Blake studied art at Camberwell School of Art in the late 1970s, and then her post grad studies at West Dean College, University of Sussex. She didn't focus on her art during the years she spent travelling and exploring the world with her husband Sir Peter Blake, but it never disappeared from her life.

Pippa's work is not doubt inspired by the continuing travelling in her life. She is drawn by the consequence of what is around the bend in a road, the consequences of a journey, and what is at the end of the road. The landscape is a metaphor for her inner landscape. You are never quite sure where the road will lead or what is at the end.

The technique is fresh and immediate, her colours subtle and imaginative. There is movement and emotion in her work and the series 'The road to nowhere' seem to be a search for the ultimate destination.

At the age of 17 Pippa was sent to France to paint under Peter Norton, who has a profound influence on her and who urged her to develop her instincts as a painter. As a student the work of Cezanne, Bonnard and Matisse were inspiring then latterly as she developed into more abstract work she was impressed by the work of De Kooning and Richard Diebkorn a Californian painter.

Pippa has work in collections in New Zealand where she is currently travelling and painting.  

Paintings