A special edition of ‘A Geography of Colour’ podcast with painter Katrina Blannin, talking about colour and painting with Ruth Philo, from the Sluice Expo 'World Buidling' in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland with LungA School, originally broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, May 2025.
Katrina Blannin was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester. She teaches as an Associate Lecturer at UAL Camberwell for BA Painting and Foundation Drawing/Conceptual Practice; UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring programme for Turps Banana, London, UK.
https://www.katrinablannin.com/
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A special edition of ‘A Geography of Colour’ podcast with painter Katrina Blannin, talking about colour and painting with Ruth Philo, from the Sluice Expo 'World Buidling' in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland with LungA School, originally broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, May 2025.
Katrina Blannin was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester. She teaches as an Associate Lecturer at UAL Camberwell for BA Painting and Foundation Drawing/Conceptual Practice; UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring programme for Turps Banana, London, UK.
https://www.katrinablannin.com/
This month on 'A Geography of Colour' podcast I am talking with painter Miranda Boulton about her relationship with colour.
Miranda is a contemporary British painter who lives and work in Cambridge, UK. She studied Art History at Sheffield Hallam University and at Turps Banana Art School in London.
In 2021 she won the Jacksons Painting Prize. Notable exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016 & 2019, Creekside Open 2019, ING Discerning Eye 2021 and the Young Masters Autumn Exhibition 2022. She is represented by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
She describes her paintings as Nature Morte of flora. Her work is a response to historical references within this genre. Art historical images are translated through memory into a contemporary pictorial language, linked through expressive colour, gesture and form. Each painting is an ongoing conversation between past and present, an exploration of new forms from old imagery and narratives.
Painting for Miranda is a complex and endlessly fascinating medium. Amy Sillman sums it up here:
‘Making a painting is so hard it makes you crazy. You have to negotiate surface, silhouette, line, space, zone, layer, scale, speed and mass, while interacting with meta-surface meaning text, sign, language, intention, concept and history. You have to simultaneously diagnose the present, predict the future and ignore the past – to both remember and forget. You have to love and hate your objects and subjects, to believe every shred of romantic and passionate mythos about painting and at the same time cast our gimlet eye on it. ‘ https://www.amysillman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/201602_OnColor.pdf
Links:
Miranda Boulton https://www.mirandaboulton.co.uk/
A Geography of Colour https://www.ruthphilo.co.uk/a-geography-of-colour.html
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
Amy Sillman https://www.amysillman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/201602_OnColor.pdf
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery https://www.thecynthiacorbettgallery.com/artists/
A Geography of Colour
A special edition of ‘A Geography of Colour’ podcast with painter Katrina Blannin, talking about colour and painting with Ruth Philo, from the Sluice Expo 'World Buidling' in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland with LungA School, originally broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, May 2025.
Katrina Blannin was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester. She teaches as an Associate Lecturer at UAL Camberwell for BA Painting and Foundation Drawing/Conceptual Practice; UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring programme for Turps Banana, London, UK.
https://www.katrinablannin.com/
