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Artist:
Hildegarde Reid
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Art Medium: Painting In Oil |
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Size: 71 x 61cm |
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Artist: Hildegarde
Reid |
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Painter of Oils,Watercolour,
Gouache & Acrylics |
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Art Tutor &
Art Demonstrations |
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Teacher of Watercolour Painting On
Cruise Liners |
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Commissions
Invited |
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Tel: 0208 398 1943 / 07584 571 234 |
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Email:
hildegarde.art@gmail.com
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About The Artist - Hildegarde Reid
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Hildegarde
was born on the edge of the Kalahari Desert,
Northern Cape Province, South Africa. |
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She studied Social Science
at the University of the Orange Free State, but
has always been passionately involved in
painting. She came to the UK in the “Sixties”,
is married with two children, and lives in
Surrey where she teaches and paints in her
Studio in Molesey. |
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Hildegarde is primarily a
“Colourist”. Her work is much influenced by her
roots and she brings warmth and vibrancy into
her paintings where with gay abandon uses colour
and paint in a way that has been described as,
“delightfully sensual”. |
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Whether tackling cluttered
Still Lifes of everyday objects, or landscapes
of Southern Africa and Europe, she delights in
depicting the effects of light and dark. The
“Impressionists” and “Scottish Colourists” have
had a major influence on her work. Although
mainly an oil painter, Hildegarde also uses
watercolour and mixed media. She regularly runs
painting workshops and demonstrations for a
number of Art Societies and exhibits both in
South Africa and England. She has sold to
clients world-wide. For the last four years
Hildegarde has been a watercolour instructor for
major Cruise Lines. |
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Her paintings are
represented by Art Galleries in London and South
Africa. Her work is regularly exhibited
with the Chelsea Art Society, and has been
represented at the Affordable Art, and Battersea
Art Fairs . In September 2007 she was Guest
Artist for “The Family Law in Partnership”,
Bedford Chambers, Covent Garden, London, and
exhibited in May 2008 hanging at the Royal
British Artists Exhibition at the Mall
Galleries, London. One of her works, “Daffodils”
was recently auctioned at the Royal Academy on
behalf of Marie Curie Cancer Research.
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Hildegarde undertakes
commissions for Still Lifes incorporating
client’s colour schemes and precious possessions
as well as painting private homes and gardens.
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Of Painting as an activity,
she says “No matter how demanding painting
can sometimes be, it always fills me with a huge
sense of satisfaction and joy. In painting I
escape into a World of my own, where I can revel
in creating images with colour, shape and form.” |
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Hildegarde Reid, July 2009
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Art Groups
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Molesey Art Society, Chelsea
Art Society, Sunbury on Thames Art Society &
Thames Valley Art Society, Weybridge Art Society |
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