Meridith Namsoo

Meridith loves watercolour for its wide vocabulary. For her it is not just a medium of area, or colour, but of enormous graphic potential. Watercolour produces marks all of it’s own, from the different textures of individual pigments, to the vast range of patterns, edges and surfaces made possible by manipulating the paint.

However, it tends to be a medium of intimate scale, and Meridith is involved with translating effects which happen easily in tiny areas into wider, freer and looser formats.

So as well as painting on paper, Meridith has developed a way of working on canvas, incorporating different surfaces – papers, gesso and in places painting directly onto the naked canvas - stabilising the end result with polymer varnish.

Meridith trained at Winchester School of Art and Sussex University, lives and works in Sussex and runs her own teaching practice.