Isobel Harvey
Isobel Harvey’s paintings are rooted in an attentive study of rhythm and pattern in the natural world. Birds, fish, horses and other symbolic forms appear and reappear across her work, their shapes shifting through layers of oil and acrylic. Compositions are built through a process of construction and erasure, where images are overpainted and reconfigured, creating depth, translucency and a sense of quiet, methodical movement. With a background in ceramics, studied at Central Saint Martins, Leeds Arts University and Bath Spa University, Harvey’s early engagement with the vessel as a surface for drawing and colour continues to inform her painting. This grounding in material and form brings a tactile sensitivity to her work. Folk traditions and decorative histories play a subtle role, where geometry and symmetry sit alongside looser, organic motifs.
Her paintings seek to hold both energy and stillness — honouring the vitality of natural forms while bringing colour, pattern and light into the spaces they inhabit.
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