The Real Cotswolds
By Eleanor Campbell
Original artworks
Mixed media on canvas/deep canvas
Framed
Image sizes and prices, in order shown above:
Blue Pond — 50 × 50 cm + frame £575
Crow Copse — 80 × 80 cm + frame £725
A Cotswold Walk — 40 × 40 cm + frame £495
Cotswold Water Meadows — 40 × 40 cm + frame £495The Scent of Lavender — 30 × 30cm + frame £325
Home to Roost I, Cotswolds Walk — 40 × 40 cm + frame £495
Home to Roost II, Cotswolds Walk — 40 × 40 cm + frame £495
The Cotswold landscape is so often praised and publicised, yet sometimes the noise around it can obscure its real magic. Step away from the hype and what remains is something far more powerful — quiet hills, open skies, undulating meadows and a deep sense of calm that speaks for itself.
As a resident of the region and lover of its landscape, Eleanor Campbell captures these places beautifully in her semi-abstract style, combining confident mark-making with rich, luminous colour. Walking the landscape every day, she never tires of translating its shifting shades, shapes and weather into paint.
For our Pride of Place exhibition, she has created this series of new views of her favourite region — a celebration of how lucky we are to live and work here.
Eleanor's semi-abstract landscape paintings express emotions, memories and responses to the world around her. With confident and knowledgable use of colour, sher captures the sweep of the sweep of the land and the movement of the sky. Leaving visible, large brush strokes, she builds up layers and uses mark-making tools and mixed media or chance application of paint.
Most of the works above can be hung as pairs or singly.
ABOUT ELEANOR CAMPBELL
Having lived on the west coast of Scotland, with its rugged coastline, then moving to the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, Eleanor has enjoyed the best of both contrasting terrains as inspiration for her landscape painting.
Beyond landscape, Eleanor enjoys producing a variety of imaginative still life art which is often more graphic or realistic in style, using mixed media and painting from life whilst also exploring our material world through her semi-abstract approach.
Eleanor studied for her BA at Glasgow School of Art and, throughout her life, she has followed in the footsteps of her family as artists and creators. She pursued a career of graphic design and illustration and, later in life, returned to focus on her art. She has carried out numerous commissions and exhibits as a full-time painter in the Cotswolds, Cornwall and the Peak District.
She is based in Oxfordshire, in the heart of the Cotswolds.
