ARTIST FEATURE - TAMSIN HYDE

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TAMSIN HYDE

Tamsin Hyde is a painter based in Cheltenham. Working mainly in oils she creates expressive abstract works, using memory, places and moments; referencing landscapes and internal thought scapes in an intuitive blend of colour and rhythm.

Rooted in intuition and mark making, her practice involves layering and removing, organically revealing emotion and essence of space, allowing for the interplay of texture colour and gesture to reveal a dialogue. Guided by her instinct she explores a sense of place or a response to a feeling, capturing fleeting moments in paint.

Tamsin's work explores journeys, be that literal walks in the landscape, transcribed through marks, or mind wanderings, visiting thoughts, places and people captured in memory, finding a language to express those moments. Often inspired by the Cotswold valleys and hills, her work has a cadence and rhythm to it, of places wandered, lived in, observed – her paint strokes carry the lilting marks of someone in tune with their surroundings and with their own decided way converse with and depict it.

There is a seasonality to Tamsin's paintings, they move in subtle colour and mood shifts, reflecting the changes of light or landscape. Unafraid of bright colour, she embraces natural tones, often muted yet dynamic, balanced across a canvas as the textures and shapes speak to each other and form a representation of the conversations she has with her landscape.

Blues feature heavily in Tamsin's works, often providing a space and a backdrop for other colours to play in. They express an overall mood depending on their shade, giving life to a moment or particular thought. Pinks dot through, playing off more subdued grounds, creating contrasting lightness and delicacy, and bring a different intensity and another voice to the conversation.

Nothing about Tamsin's work is representational, she allows herself to be guided through thoughts, expressing meaning and impressions, imbuing her canvases with emotion.

Since completing her degree, Tamsin has exhibited widely, taken courses at St Ives school of painting, been longlisted for the Jackson's Art Prize and hosted a beautiful solo exhibition at Sixteen Gallery last year. She returns to the gallery this month, with a solo show of new works, created over the past year, a collection centring on the experience of walking as a way of seeing, remembering and belonging. Find out all about it and mark the dates for your diary here.

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