Paris Foot
Degree: BA Fine Art
University: Falmouth University
Graduation Year: 2010
New Blood Art Commentary
Paris Foot’s paintings retain a distinctive visual language - immediately recognisable, absorbing.
There is colour. And beauty.
A sense of place. Story.
Life, culture, history, texture.
Paris’s paintings are embodied.
Vibrant, tactile, assured.
Pattern and figure move together - neither overtakes.
She gathers what stays with her - a textile, a surface, a detail.
Felt.
Paris lives a life of sustainable rhythm up a Greek mountain.
Her paintings carry that light.
Artist Statement
I have always been drawn to vibrant colours, bold prints and busy patterns. I collect visual inspiration like a magpie. I see a garment, perhaps a vivid colour, on a passing stranger that catches my eye and I recall this as I paint, allowing a narrative to play out in my head as I do so. The female form is another love of mine and something that will manifest into many of my paintings. The figures come close to being lost in or consumed by their overwhelming attire and backdrop; though somehow, they remain. These women are subtley, yet marvelously, defiant with a raised eyebrow or a knowing smile they say: "Do not underestimate me, there is a mind under this hat"."
Solo Exhibitions
(2022) Strength of a Woman, Neohori Bohemian Art Space, Isle of Lefkas
(2020) Patterns for life, Neohori Bohemian Art Space, Lefkada Island, Greece
(2018) Adventures in Colour, Zita, Lefkada, Greece
(2014) Strange Things, Cleopatra, Lefkada, Greece
Group Exhibitions
(2020) Seven Women, Zita, Lefkada, Greece
(2020) Wild and Free, Zita, Lefkada, Greece
(2019) Memories of Greece, Stamnos Viewing Space, Lefkada, Greece
(2010) Stone Soup, The Rag Factory, Brick Lane, London