Artist     Vivienne Baker
Title      Opaline
Date      2000's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size      162.5 x 188 cm
Ref         935

Purchased in the 148th RWA Annual Exhibition in 2000

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Opaline
Vivienne Baker is based in Bristol, having completed a degree in Fine Art at Coventry and an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking, at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2000.

She has enriched her studio practice through residencies at Shaw Farm Artists Workshop, Somerset (1991), Oporto, Portugal (1993), Triangle Artists Workshop, Marseilles, France (1995) and the OMI Artists Workshop Residency, OMI New York, America in 1996.

The large painting in the RWA collection, winner of the RWA Purchase Prize in 2000, is typical of her recent interests in organic abstraction with forms appearing to float in an atmospheric field of light. Vivienne writes of her work:

My general working methods in the mediums of both painting and print-making involve a slow build-up of layers of differing tonal values and opacity and the use of colour contrasts and harmonies in the description of space. Recent work describes a slow-moving, floating space, the elements giving the impression of being enlarged from microscopic size. Compositions appear both simple and random (in reality they are complex and very considered).

She has had solo exhibitions of her work in 1999 at the Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton; Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath in 1996, and the Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedford in 1995; as well as group exhibitions in Bristol (2002), Sherborne House, Dorset (2002) and the Contemporary Print Show, Barbican Centre, London in 2000. Overseas she has shown in France in 1995, at Triangle Exhibitions, Luminy Art College and La Tour du Roy Rene, Marseilles; and in 1996 at the Omi Exhibition, New York, USA. Viv also showed in the RWA Print Triennial, held at the Royal West of England Academy in 2000.

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