Celia Washington is one of the brightest and most original talents to emerge from the Byam Shaw Art School in the last two decades. Her work – oils, mixed media, drawings and prints – conjure up a world at once strange, familiar and utterly compelling.
A nomadic childhood helped her develop a strong inner vision, although it was not until she was 19 that her imagination found an outlet through painting.
Over the last 28 years she has used her experiences as a long-term outsider to create boldly drawn and evocatively-coloured figurative paintings. Her work like that of other Scottish painters reflects a deep fascination with poetic and psychological myth and symbolic legend.
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Celia Washington has already established an international reputation with shows in London, New York and many other countries. She has lived and worked in Florence, Madrid, Tokyo, Paris & Edinburgh, and is now based between London and Kathmandu.
Interview in the London Art & Artists Guide 2006
Kathmandu Arts Centre Library
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