Henrietta Dubrey

Working mainly in oil on canvas, Henrietta's abstract paintings are essentially autobiographical, describing mood, place and circumstance: deconstructions and reconstructions of life. Her work evolves through the act of painting exploring process and outcome, so that as the subject becomes evident she is able to let the work dictate its own direction. These ideas appear on the canvas surface often as an abstract gestural web, occasionally tangled, occasionally bold and resolved - like life itself.

Originally from Sussex, Henrietta now lives and works in West Penwith near the tip of Cornwall, an area which has attracted many artists she admires: Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron and Terry Frost amongst others who were drawn by the inspirational qualities of light and space.

Dubrey studied painting in London in the 1980s at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy School. Her work has been shown since across the UK at galleries which include the Belgrave Gallery in St.Ives and London, Edgar Modern in Bath and with Lynne Strover in Cambridge.