Veronica Knowles

Veronica Knowles Garden PaintingVeronica Knowles
Welsh Garden Paintings
Veronica Knowles doesn't just paint gardens, well her garden in Anglesey, but it is her garden paintings that she has become increasingly famous for. The rich intensity of colours she reproduces is startling, yet the paintings keep their painterly feel and convey depth and contrast without the need of photo realism that has become so increasingly boring these days. A very private person Veronica Knowles, passes her time painting, tending her garden, and logging all the birds that pass through in her meticulous little black book.
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Veronica Knowles
Curriculum Vitae
Born - 1940 Liverpool
STUDIED
1952-59 Holly Lodge High School for Girls 1952-1959
1959-64 Liverpool College of Art
LIVED
Liverpool until 1971
Bethesda, North Wales until 1977
Anglesey - to date
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibits rarely but has shown in various mixed exhibitions over the years including
1973 Oriel Bangor
1976 Caernarfonshire Arts Project Founding Exhibition
1979 Tolley Cobbold
1979 Group Show - Oriel Mostyn Gallery Llandudno
1980 Women Artists - Oriel Mostyn Gallery Llandudno
1982 Riverside Gallery London – Natural Parallel 2
1982 Welsh National Eisteddfod
1983 Welsh National Eisteddfod
1982 Bluecoat Gallery - Liverpool [with Mike Knowles]
2004 Family Lines - Toring Wales
2005 Oriel Ynys Mon
2009 Oriel Clwyd Theatr Gallery - Joint with Mike Knowles
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Paintings in private collections in England, Wales, Canada, Australia, Zimbabwe, Portugal, France, and Spain.
Veronica Knowles
Artist Statement I have always been concerned with painting the things closest to me, my family, our animals, and the gardens and landscape around the house. All the things with which I am most familiar. I find that it takes me a long time to physically start a painting. The light must be just right for me to achieve the effect I want. Therefore, I can be thinking about a subject for up to two years before I begin but once it is underway. I work very rapidly, a necessary thing when light is so ephemeral and diverse, leaving little time for contemplation.

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