Kristan Baggaley
Artist Statement
Baggaley has developed a very physical painting technique when interpreting the landscape in oils, splattering, dripping, scraping and eventually building up dense layers of paint and sand. The surface of the work is all important adding material from the landscape to the canvas including grit sands and dried vegetation, heather, bracken and cotton grasses. Cutting and dragging the media around the canvas, using palette knives, forks, spoons etc. These processes combine to reinforce the lack of permanence in the nature of landscape. For Kristan, the properties of a landscape can best be discovered when he has revisited a location numerous times. In painting familiar subject matter, the inessential falls away leaving only the essential.
Selected Awards
1st Prize the “Bernard Shaw Prize for Painting”
Prize Winner “Young Contemporaries” Icon Gallery Birmingham
“Stowells Trophy” Selected Exhibitor Royal College of Art.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2004 Manchester’s Art House, Manchester
2005 The Derwent Gallery, Grindleford, Derbyshire
2006 Manchester’s Art House, Manchester
2007 Gallerytop, Rowsley.
2008 Tregonning Gallery, Derby
2009 Gallerytop, Rowsley, Derbyshire
2010 The Derwent Gallery, Grindleford
2011 Tregonning Gallery, Friars Gate, Derby
2012 Gallerytop Rowsley, Derbyshire
2013 The Derwent Gallery Grindleford
2014 Gallerytop Rowsley Derbyshire
Regular Exhibitor at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
Art Fairs
The London Art Fair
Battersea Art Fair
Leeds Art Fair
Bristol Art Fair
Chelsea Art Fair
Collections
Sheffield University
Sheffield Hospital Trust
Royal Bank of Scotland
Four Seasons Hotels Uk
Dennis Mowers Uk
Braun Uk
Taylor and Emmet Solicitors
The Maynard Hotel