AMY SHUCKBURGH (b.1977) 'Liquid Core, 2018'

Amy Shuckburgh
Born in 1977, creates distinctive landscapes, still life, portraits and figurative work. She uses pencil, pastel, oil and collage, working intuitively as well as from life. Trained at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, the St Ives School in Cornwall, The Royal Drawing School and the Slade School of Fine Art, in London. She has a Degree in English Literature from Leeds University and a Masters Degree in Curating from Goldsmiths College, London. Won the 2019 Heatherley’s Award for Drawing.
An exhibition of her motherhood paintings last year celebrated the stresses and pleasures of mothering. Jacqueline Rose, author of Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, writes: ‘Amy Shuckburgh’s delicate yet bold and vivid images of motherhood manage to evoke a portrait for our time that avoids the twin pitfalls of idealisation and punishment.’
Amy divides her time between London and Cornwall, where she has family roots, and a recent solo show in London of her Cornish work focused on her emotional response to the coastal landscape, and her interest in the layered narratives that places conceal.