PIPPA ASHWORTH | LANDSCAPE ARTIST

ART

To view Pippa’s painting is to witness a deep respect and appreciation of the finest details in Nature and Landscape.

Influenced by her childhood upbringing in the wild beauty of Cornwall, and influenced by her landscape and portrait artist grandmother, Pippa developed a deep relationship with the natural environment and technical painting skills that she continues to develop and evolve.

Pippa’s passion for the complexity of tangled textures in overgrown, untamed places and the impact of transient of light and seasonal change on them is evident throughout her work. She has an immense capacity for observing moments in time and place, and talent for responding to them with sensitive attention to detail and ephemeral interpretation.

BIO

Pippa worked as a lecturer in Printmaking and Foundation Studies in a Yorkshire Art College for twenty-three years and is now a full-time painter, with a studio based in the stunning Pennine moorland landscape of the Holme Valley, on the doorstep of the iconic Peak District.

Amongst other venues, she has exhibited at RHS Wisley, RHS Hever Castle, RHS Hyde Hall, the Guild Hall in Winchester, Ripon Cathedral, Dean Clough in Halifax, Huddersfield Art Gallery, ‘Just Makers’ at Ripley Castle, the Art Centre in Hemsley, the Cooper Gallery at Cannon Hall, Booth House Gallery in Holmfirth and Holmfirth Art Week. 

In Summer 2024, Pippa was invited to be one of just two Featured Artists at Holmfirth Art Week and, at the time of writing (Autumn 2024), is exhibiting at Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge, Millyard Gallery in Saddleworth, Nowhere in Holmfirth and The Look Gallery in Helmsley.

TEACHING

Pippa regularly delivers workshops and demonstrations in drawing, painting and printmaking to Art Societies, Community Art Groups and adult classes. She understands the power of painting and, through her calm and encouraging approach, Pippa helps others to explore their own responses to nature’s textures through a range of mediums and artistic expression.