Celia Bridle: Independently Combining

In her exhibition, Independently Combining, painter Celia Bridle expresses delicacy, intimacy, mobility and flow in her artwork.

This exhibition features 24 drawings, a culmination of detailed artwork using pen and ink. Her process also involves contemporary media in order to reduce the size of the drawings. Once completed, each hand-drawn image is scanned and printed at half its size, because this smallness further enhances its intense and detailed nature.

A memory from the past acted as an initial impetus for theses drawings. Celia remembers her experience of learning to write by hand when she was a young schoolgirl. Her teacher would trace letters of the alphabet in the air, explaining how to draw each individual shape.

Celia Bridle’s artwork continues to be inspired by an assiduous approach to line and engraving’s measured configuration and intense immersion.