Audrey Hammond


Audrey Hammond studied Fine Art at the University of Reading and Bournemouth College of Art.  After several years in Buckinghamshire as a freelance artist and tutor, she moved to the Cotswolds in 1978.  Audrey derives inspiration both from her strong roots in Dorset and the West Country and from her passion for the colours and patterns of the Cotswold landscape with its ancient Salt Ways and high blue hills’.  Other influences include the calm simplicity of Morandi’s still life work.  Currently she works mainly in mixed media with a bias towards pastel.

Group Exhibitions:

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1982, 1985, 1996

Royal Watercolour Society, 1972, 1985-1988

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, 1979, 1991-2002

Royal West of England Academy, 1979-1980, 1982-2002, 2005, 2007

Pastel Society, 1984, 200-2003, 2008 

New English Art Club, 1986-1988, 1992-1993

Laing Landscape Competition

Century Gallery, Henley-on-Thames

Medici Gallery, London

 

Awards:Watercolour Prize winner at the Royal West of England Academy, 1993

Collections:Her work is represented in numerous public and private collections in Britain and overseas, including the permanent collection of the Cheltenham Art Gallery and BP International.