Vanda Harvey b 1957

A Day Out

Oil on Canvas

"Paintings are like journeys capturing shifting views; sky, space, speed, land, mass. I am always looking for a pictorial dynamic that is at once exhilarating and reflective, so there is a fair amount of balancing opposites within my work. Elements within the paintings are held in tension, the weight of a black gesture defies gravity while the soft blush of a rosy morning supports an entire ocean.

Colour, gesture and the substance of paint transform my sensations into a visual language. All abstract painting ever requires is recognition of sensation to connect with human emotion.

My work references maps and flying, but these interests are always secondary to the studio act of painting and invention. There is still that child-like joy of looking at an alas, "Where are we?" and "Where are we going?" The adventure is painting"........Vanda Harvey

Vanda Harvey was born in Hampshire in 1957 and grew up in South London. She studied Art in London and later in Brighton where she completed a Masters Degree in Fine Art

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

2007 Sheridans London
2002 The Surgery, Corn Exchange London
2000 ‘All Around The World’ SE1 Gallery London
1994 ‘Another Country’ Jill George Gallery London
1992 Project O.F. Manchester
1991 Project O.F. London
1991 ‘Harmony of Opposites’ Kohn Pedersen Fox New York
Group Exhibitions:
2008 ‘Drawing Breath’ Lugar Do Desenho Foundation of Julio Resende Porto Portugal
2007 The Glass Furnace, Istanbul (glass)
Originals 2007, Mall Galleries London (prints)
2006 Wet Paint Gallery Cirencester
‘So Art’ Mall Galleries London
Theo’s Gallery Norfolk
2005 Carlow Arts Festival Ireland (invited artist)
‘Driven To Abstraction’ Belgravia Gallery London (prints: Vanda Harvey, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol)
Prenelle Gallery Island Film Festival London
2004 ‘Shifting Sands’ Artlights, Commissions East Norfolk
Mall Galleries London
‘Artbeat’ Allen & Overy Canary Wharf London
2003 ‘Reasons To Love The Earth’ – National Art Gallery Seoul Korea
2002 Wet Paint Gallery Cirencester
Jerwood Gallery London
2001 Blackheath Gallery London
2000 Sarah Meyerscough Gallery London
1998 SE1 Gallery London
1996 Air Gallery London
Jill George Gallery London
‘Sight Lines’ Honiton Arts Festival Devon (Boyde & Evans, Vanda Harvey, Robert MacLaurin, David Nash and John Virtue)
1995 Jill George Gallery London
De Montfort University Leicester
Art 95 London
1994 Hamilton Forbes Kuwait City (prints)
CND London
Art Fair Frankfurt & Dusseldorf
SAGA Paris
Art Expo New York
1993 Abstract Show Bruton Street Gallery London
‘Art For A Fairer World’ Smiths Gallery London
1992 British Embassy Tokyo (prints)
Art 92 London
CND London
John Jones Gallery Prints London
‘Art For Sale’ The Guardian London
‘Art For A Fairer World’ Glasgow & Cardiff
Project O.F. Orgatex Cologne
1991 Art Expo New York
Art Fair Los Angeles
Art Fair Olympia London
Interior Design International Amsterdam
1990 Tesser Gallery London. (Brisson, Harvey, Heleno, Hodgkin, Miro)
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition London
Art Fair Olympia London
Artist in Precedence Kings Road Gallery London
1989 Christies New Contemporaries Auction, Royal College of Art London
Gallery 89 London
1988 Brighton Museum Printmaking Survey Brighton
Smiths Gallery MA Print 88 London
1987 Sussex Artists & Photographers Brighton Museum
‘Through The Printroom’ Marylebone Gallery London
TA Lawrence Prints London
1986 Arteast Collective Arteast Gallery London ‘Recent Works’ Croydon Arts Centre
1985 ‘Small Works’ Artists in Newham, Conway Hall London
1984 ‘Four Painters’ Central School of Art & Design London

Collections

3i London
Appian Estates London
Art Dialogue Paris
Arts Council of Great Britain
Bank of England London
Bankers Trust London
B B C London
British Telecom London
BNP Paribas
Cellnet Leeds
Conzen Kunsthandlung Germany
Corange London Ltd
Crown Communications London
Daimler Chrysler London
Dibb Lupton Alsop London
E C Harris London
Egon Zehnder International London
Ford Motors
Fujitsu London
Gardner Merchant Great Britain
General Bank of France Broadgate London
Global Assets Hong Kong
Goldman Sachs London
Hamburgische Landesbank London
Hillier Parker London
Hindrick & Struggles Hong Kong
Hughes Watton London
IBM UK
ING Bank London
Institute of Directors Manchester
Kelly Communications London
Kerry Hotel Beijing China
Kohn Pederson Fox New York
Liberty Re London
LSM London
Mars Confectionery
Modus London
Montreal Bank London
Napier Jones London
National Freight Corporation London
Pelvin Rose London
Permira London
Project Office Furniture London
R Angel Seattle
Regis London
R G Estates
Wolff/Olins/Hamilton London
R Rothchild New York
R V Buxton London
Smith Kline Beecham
S G Warburg London
St.Barts Hospital London
Swift London
Sanders Vere London
Texas Instruments UK
Traffic Master Milton Keynes

Information taken from the Website of Vanda Harvey, please visit her website for more info www.vandaharvey.com