Ottelien Huckin

United Kingdom  • 1993

Presentation

Edinburgh College of Arts (BA , 2018)

Powerful, sensual, painful, vulnerable, joyful - when I draw or paint the female figure, I often contemplate what it means to inhabit my own body. Entrenched in a long art historical discourse dictated by 'the male gaze', my practice aims to reveal the nude in an autonomous, empowered and sensual way by reinterpreting old master drawings with my own life drawing observations and intuition. 


Either in the immediacy of an encounter or in the fragility of a memory, drawing is a personal and authentic form of expression in my practice. Drawing directly onto canvas with oil bar, my practice seeks to capture the qualities of a preparatory sketch. It is an exploratory process, allowing each mark to land as an expressive catalyst for the next. The staining nature of the medium mimics that of charcoal traditionally used in the academic style of figure drawing. Using bold colour pigments, I aim to reject the ideas of classical draughtsmanship and question the hierarchy of painting by raising the status of the preparatory drawing to canvas.


Ottelien Huckin is a Bath and London based artist. Graduating from a degree in Fine Art: Painting at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2016 and a diploma from The Sotheby's Institute: Foundations of Western History of Art in 2018, Ottelien has previously exhibited across the UK; including a solo show at 44AD artspace and gallery, Bath and The Mall Galleries, London with The Royal Society of British Artists: RBA Rome Scholarship. Most recently, Ottelien was a finalist for The Signature Art Prize 2019, showing her work at Bankside Hotel and Trinity Art Gallery, London.


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All artworks of Ottelien Huckin
Painting, Dancing Swallows I, Ottelien Huckin

Dancing Swallows I

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

$2,370

Painting, Dancing Swallows III, Ottelien Huckin

Dancing Swallows III

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch

$2,370

Painting, Dancing Swallows II, Ottelien Huckin

Dancing Swallows II

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

$2,370

Painting, Butterfly Bush, Ottelien Huckin

Butterfly Bush

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch

$527

Painting, Honeybees and Daffodils, Ottelien Huckin

Honeybees and Daffodils

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch

$527

Painting, Love is like a butterfly III, Ottelien Huckin

Love is like a butterfly III

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch

$527

Painting, Wild poppy, Ottelien Huckin

Wild poppy

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch

$527

Painting, Hollyhocks and butterflies, Ottelien Huckin

Hollyhocks and butterflies

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 17.7 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch

$1,778

Painting, Eliza in the meadow, Ottelien Huckin

Eliza in the meadow

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 17.7 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch

$1,778

Painting, Daffodils at dawn, Ottelien Huckin

Daffodils at dawn

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch

$988

Painting, Emmeline and the butterfly, Ottelien Huckin

Emmeline and the butterfly

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch

$988

Painting, Two starlings and a butterfly (Triptych) II, Ottelien Huckin

Two starlings and a butterfly (Triptych) II

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 13.4 x 26.8 x 0.4 inch

$2,897

Painting, Emmeline, Ottelien Huckin

Emmeline

Ottelien Huckin

Painting - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch

$527

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Who is the artist?

Edinburgh College of Arts (BA , 2018)

Powerful, sensual, painful, vulnerable, joyful - when I draw or paint the female figure, I often contemplate what it means to inhabit my own body. Entrenched in a long art historical discourse dictated by 'the male gaze', my practice aims to reveal the nude in an autonomous, empowered and sensual way by reinterpreting old master drawings with my own life drawing observations and intuition. 


Either in the immediacy of an encounter or in the fragility of a memory, drawing is a personal and authentic form of expression in my practice. Drawing directly onto canvas with oil bar, my practice seeks to capture the qualities of a preparatory sketch. It is an exploratory process, allowing each mark to land as an expressive catalyst for the next. The staining nature of the medium mimics that of charcoal traditionally used in the academic style of figure drawing. Using bold colour pigments, I aim to reject the ideas of classical draughtsmanship and question the hierarchy of painting by raising the status of the preparatory drawing to canvas.


Ottelien Huckin is a Bath and London based artist. Graduating from a degree in Fine Art: Painting at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2016 and a diploma from The Sotheby's Institute: Foundations of Western History of Art in 2018, Ottelien has previously exhibited across the UK; including a solo show at 44AD artspace and gallery, Bath and The Mall Galleries, London with The Royal Society of British Artists: RBA Rome Scholarship. Most recently, Ottelien was a finalist for The Signature Art Prize 2019, showing her work at Bankside Hotel and Trinity Art Gallery, London.

What is Ottelien Huckin’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Poetry of the Natural Form

When was Ottelien Huckin born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1993