Boo attended The Byam Shaw School of Art and City & Guilds in the 1980's and moved to Dorset in 2002 where she discovered her love for landscape painting; a style and approach which has evolved slowly over the years. Boo's paintings act as a way of recording her everyday walks and her work is grounded in the exploration and response of being very present in the landscape. The process of translating quick sketches and fragments of memory into paint enables Boo to explore colour, gesture, mark making and abstraction. By slowly building up the surface of the paintings, ambiguous compositions begin to emerge, hinting at places visited or remembered. This ambiguity allows the viewer the freedom to put their own interpretation into the paintings and to be reminded of their own experiences of being within the landscape. Boo has painted professionally for many years and regularly exhibits her work with The Lime Tree Gallery in Bristol, Highgate Contemporary in London and Nadia Waterfield Fine Art in Hampshire.Boo Mallinson
Work by Boo Mallinson