Dina Southwell

Dina Southwell paints about her experience of being immersed in a landscape. Often her paintings are about her memory of passing through a landscape. She sketches on the spot in charcoal, watercolur and pastel and her oil paintings develop from a combination of these sketches and her memory of the colours. Colour is normally the starting pint for a painting and they tend to go through several permutations before the emotion which originally inspired the artist is captured in paint.

Dina Southwell studied at the Slade School of Art in the 1980s and spent a year studying photography at the the University of New Mexico. Since graduating from the Slade she has exhibited widely in London, East Anglia and the USA. She spent two years teaching art in London schools and now divides her time between painting and teaching. Her work has been bought by major collections including the Sainsbury and Wolfson family collections.

Summer on the backwaters	Two fish
Snow	Summer on the backwaters 2

Detail of Glasgow to Oban