About

Francesca Bex

Born 1970, Lives and works on the Wiltshire Dorset Border

I draw inspiration from the natural environment and experience a sensory and emotional response to being in the landscape. I respond with texture, colour and shape in a gestural way, using paint to articulate these feelings and experiences into images.

Awards

The Simply Biz prize, 'Articles of War', The Lighthouse Gallery, Glasgow, 2017

The Cohort PLC prize, The Armed Forces Art Society 78th Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries 2014

The Cohort PLC prize, The Armed Forces Art Society 80th Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries 2012

The Linda Kitson Prize for The Butterfly Bomb Quintych, best painting of a military subject, The Army Arts Society Annual Exhibition  2012

Past Exhibitions

2018 Menier Gallery, London

2018 Contemporary Art Fair Surrey, Sandown Park

2018 Magpie Contemporary Art, Summer exhibition, Farnham

2017, 'Articles of War, The Lighthouse Gallery, Glasgow

2017 Menier Gallery London

2016 Motor Village Gallery Mayfair

2016 Surrey Artist Open Studio

2016 'Out of Line', Armed Forces Arts Society, The Mall Galleries, (Annually 2012- 2016)

2015 Army Arts Society, The John Creacy Gallery, Salisbury (Annually 2010- 2015)

2014 Salisbury Arts Centre, Open Print

Hampshire Open Studios, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012, ‘Loss and Disappearance’, The Invisibles, Cornerstone, Didcot, Oxfordshire 

2012, Finalist on ‘Show me the Monet’ Television programme, 

Oxford Art Weeks, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018