Wallace Seymour Biographies

Pip Seymour Biography

Pip Seymour is a painter and writer,who lives in England and Italy. He studied Fine Art at Bradford College of Art, Winchester School of Art and Brighton Polytechnic, and has been a practising artist since the mid-1980s.

He has lectured in painting materials and techniques at a number of iinstitutions since the late 1908s, including Camberwell College of Art & Design, Birmingham City University, University of Northumbria, Winchester School of Art, The Prince’s Drawing School (now Royal Drawing School), Glasgow School of Art, University of Central Lancashire, Manchester Met – and has run workshops on paint technique for many years in Italy and at a number of museums in the UK: Abbot Hall, Kendal, the Colour Museum, Bradford.

With painter Rebecca Wallace, he is a co-director of the paint manufacturers Wallace Seymour Fine Art Products since 2010, based in North Ribblesdale.

Pip Seymour has exhibited at many public and commercial galleries over the years, including The New Academy Gallery, London - Café Gallery, London—Hammerson Int., London - Dean Clough, Halifax - South Square Gallery, Bradford - Studio Orange - Porto San Giorgio, Italy - Three Peaks Arts, Horton in Ribblesdale - Abbot hall, Kendal, Harewood House, Leeds - Amandola Festival, Italy. Most recent solo show was in 2016, ‘Moughton Mysteries’, at The Old Station Gallery, Rowsley, Derbyshire.

Rebecca Wallace-Jones Biography

Rebecca's degree in Fine Art focused on the mystery of the power of the painted and drawn before the emergence of photography and film. Following this she worked intensively drawing from life at the Princes Foundation, London. Through this work she came to the realisation that the distinction between humans, animals, vegetation and landscape might not exist.

Her particular influences are the 14th Century works of Giotto, and later the 15th Century works by Masolino da Panicale and Masaccio. These artists’ use of materials from nature is a core influence in her work using hand-made materials close to the methods and materials in studios of that time.

The materials she uses in a work can be historic sometimes dating back to the Renaissance or earlier, forwards through time to contemporary colours developed recently that have never been seen before.

As an artists paint and materials maker, historic and contemporary art materials can be found in a single work spanning sometimes hundreds of years.

'In a swirling mass of a society dominated by images where we may need to make decisions about what we want to see, experience and feel I endeavour to return back the qualities of the experience of the hand made static image and hopefully transmit the notion that the artists marks should be alive.'