Talitha has a BA in History of Art and a life-long love of drawing and painting.
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Since returning to oil painting in 2017 at a local weekly life-painting class, she has gone on to study with the Royal Drawing School, taken part in plein air workshops and exhibited locally, including with the Ipswich Art Society and the Inspired by Benton End project.
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Now working mostly in oils, she explores the interplay of shape, colour, shadow and reflection in her paintings from life, either en plein air or in her garden studio - often carefully choosing colours and objects and combining observation with personal expression to give her work both authenticity and dimentionality.
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I love studying the work of other artists and combining that with my own exploration of paint and various techniques to discover new ways of expressing how I see the world. I paint mostly from life, as I find the challenge of capturing a subject in real time to be the most exciting part of the creative process.
Lately, I’ve been increasingly interested in bringing more meaning and imagination into my work. This is something I experiment with and hope will continue to influence my subject matter and colour choices more deeply over time.