Amanda Wallwork

After an early career as a successful children's book illustrator Amanda Wallwork has focused on painting since 1998 with archaeology as her source of inspiration. Her paintings are constructed from layers of plaster and oil paint, continuously built up and sanded down in a process echoing the effects of the elements and the passage of time. The work evokes a sense of a dark raw landscape and harks back to a time when our earth was in its early days of being tamed and manipulated by humans.

In a departure from previous work revealing traces in the earth when viewed from above her most recent series of works go below ground exploring the geology beneath. The Deep Time series references the term used to describe the concept of the vast, but finite, period of time represented by geological timescales. These works convey a sense of the age old, all knowing of the rock beneath our feet and the concept of these slowly formed layers acting as compressed data stores recording everything.

Amanda trained at Yeovil College and Brighton School of Art in Graphic Design and Illustration, graduating in 1979. Her work has been exhibited in London and throughout the South West at galleries, art fairs and artist-led events. She is involved in a long term project 'mapping' the Jurassic Coast, and her work is part of the Art Loan Collection at Bournemouth University. Amanda lives and works in Dorset.