
bio
Samantha is a London-based artist, painting and drawing in her studio in Brixton. She has a BFA in Fine Art from Oregon State University and recently finished a year with Turps Art School in 2023. Samantha showed 2 works last year in "Taste: a taste of the British art scene" with OHSH Projects at Wönzimer gallery in Los Angeles. Also in 2024, Samantha was longlisted for both the Contemporary British Painting Prize and the Beep Painting Prize. Her work has twice been selected for Blue Shop Gallery’s Works on Paper exhibitions and she showed with the gallery in their December group show “When the Curtain Falls” and at the London Art Fair. She is a member of Contemporary British Portrait Painters.
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statement
My work is concerned with capturing split-second moments; the sense of a fleeting experience or memory, held indelibly in the swirling application of paint over a slick surface. In the act of painting, I manoeuvre and slide translucent layers of oils over a shiny, slippy surface: brushing, softening, scratching, wiping back, my goal is to disturb the glassy glazes of oily colour until my desired image, and its accompanying sense of something, is secured. My focus is to present the souvenir of a sensation: a suggested token to spark a flicker of nostalgia in the viewer alongside a possible narrative . I try to give a photographic sensibility to my paintings, hoping to further the sense of a snapshot of a forgotten experience, an old keepsake found down the back of the sofa that jogs the feeling of a memory one can’t quite be sure of or put a finger on.​
education
2022-23 Turps Art School
1992-95 BFA Fine Art Oregon State University, USA
exhibitions
2025
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The CBPP Exhibition 2025 The Department Store, London
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Works on Paper 7 Blue Shop Gallery, London
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Time to Time Unprimed Collective, Safehouse, Lond
2024
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When the Curtain Falls, Blue Shop Gallery, London
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Layers The Dept Store, Brixton, London
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Daisy Chains and Summer Rain ASC The Handbag Factory, London
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Taste Wönzimer Gallery + OHSH Projects, Los Angeles, USA
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Contemporary British Portrait Painters The Dept Store, Brixton, London
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Works on Paper 6 Blue Shop Galleries, London
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South Open 2 OHSH Projects, Peckham, London
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Fierce Scandal Lido Stores, Margate
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A Room of One's Own Irving Gallery, Oxford
2023
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Unearthed 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London
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Under Their Skin One Paved Court, Richmond, London
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Do Not Swallow Safehouses, Peckham, London
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Small and Mighty Ladies Drawing Club
2022
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Contemporary British Portrait Painters The Dept Store, Brixton, London
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12 x 12 Show Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, USA
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ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, London
2021
2020
2018
2017
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Portraits in Isolation Virtual Exhibition, Old Fire station, Oxford
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Perceptions, works by the CBPP The Space, Cass Art, London
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BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery, London
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Lynn Painter-Stainers' Award Mall Galleries, London
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The Full Picture : Oxford in Portraits Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
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Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Piano Nobile, Kings Place, London
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Royal Society of Portrait Painters Mall Galleries, London
2016
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BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery, London
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The 248th Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Art, London
2015
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RBSA Portrait Prize RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
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Society of Women Artists Mall Galleries, London