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Corinna Button

work: 0208 9748007
corinna@corinnabutton.com
www.corinnabutton.com

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Artist's Statement
My work comes from an insatiable fascination with people, drama and mystery. It is inspired by many sources - sometimes quite an ordinary event or something obscure and personal. Autobiographical secrets or references naturally occur, however, I do enjoy conceiving characters and situations, frequently drawing on disparate sources, bringing them together in new and unexpected combinations.
I have a very turbulent way of working - subjects continually change their original source of inspiration. Intention is often seduced into very different results once an image is taking shape - I like this - It is the overlap of intent and accident that is most desirable because it impregnates the surface with a history and mystery. I bury and flood images with surface colour and texture, then dig them out again - excavating and scraping away, instinctively finding new inspiration in the underlying layer - new vocabulary, tools to build on my picture and bring it alive. I want my work to reveal a strong sense of atmosphere and feeling combining boldness with ambiguity, which, for the viewer, also project recognisable significant aspects of the human experience.
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Background

Corinna Button studied (BA Hons) Fine Art at Leeds and them Advanced Printmaking at Croydon School of Art.
She has exhibited in several European countries, in New Zealand and Korea and exhibits regularly in galleries throughout the UK. She has been selected for various major shows including RA summer exhibition, International touring print exhibitions, The Discerning Eye, The National Print and Originals exhibitions in the Mall. Her work can be found in many private collections internationally. Work in public collections include the BBC and the Ashmolean museum in Oxford.

Corinna works in various mediums including etching, woodcuts, collographs and painting. Fascinated by people, her pictures are intensely layered and atmospheric depicting many facets of the human condition.
Corinna has recently been elected into the Royal society of painters and printmakers - based at the Bankside Gallery, London.

 

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