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Boo Mallinson

Biography

Boo’s paintings act as a visual diary and a way of recording her everyday walks and journeys through the landscape.  When walking we absorb the sights, sounds and smells and they come together to form a very strong memory of place. Our minds can drift and wander yet we are very much in the present.  Memories of a repeated walk along a known pathway, the distant horizon, the dramatic changes of colour and light from one moment to the next, day to day, season to season, these immersive encounters with the natural world form the starting point of Boo’s paintings.  

Some paintings remain very close to their origins, hinting at a place visited or remembered.  These paintings are often smaller and more gestural, translating an idea quickly and embracing chance and accident.  Other paintings evolve slowly and are reworked, building up the surface organically and allowing Boo to translate ambiguous images into new compositions.  They are still about a visual encounter with the landscape yet there is a process of simplification, allowing her to explore colour and abstraction and to move intuitively between the real and the imaginary.   This ambiguity allows the viewer the freedom to put their own interpretation into the paintings and be reminded of their own experiences of being within the landscape.

Selected Exhibitions
May 20 Hampshire Art Fair, Nadia Waterfield Fine Art (virtual)
April 20 ‘Discerning Eye’ Hatch Gallery (virtual)
Jan 20 London Art Fair, Hatch Gallery
December 19 ‘Winter Treats’ Highgate Contemporary
December 19 Limetree Gallery Christmas show
November 19 Limetree Gallery, AAF Singapore
October 19 Limetree Gallery, AAF Hampstead
October 19 Sarah Sclater Art, Dorset
June 19 Limetree Summer exhibition, Bristol
March 19 Limetree Gallery AAF New York
Dec 18 Limetree Christmas show Bristol and
Nov 18  Hatch Gallery, ‘Deep Mid Winter’
Oct 18 Hatch Gallery ,AAF Battersea
June 18 Limetree Gallery Summer Exhibition, Bristol
March 18 Limetree Gallery AAF Hampstead
November 17 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
November 17 Hatch Gallery, Christchurch ‘Winter Solace’
September 17 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
June 17 Highgate Contemporary Art, Summer show
March 17 Hatch Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, London
January 17 Bath Contemporary, Featured Artist
December 16 Lighthouse Poole ‘The  Elements’
November 16 Portmanteau Gallery, Bridport
March 16 Highgate Contemporary Art, Three Person Show
Jan 16 Bath Contemporary, Winter Show
Jan 16 Hatch Gallery, Christchurch, ‘Out of the Dark’
Dec 15 Highgate Contemporary, Christmas show