Marilyn, 2016

Phoebe Dingwall  

Phoebe Dingwall was born on October 21, 1965, in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the age of 16, influenced by her painters parents, and in particular her painter father and professor of contemporary art at the University of Cleveland, she entered the College of Art in Edinburgh, then in 1983 decided to leave a year in Aix en Provence at the school of fine arts. Returning to the United Kingdom in 1984, she joined the University of Oxford and in 1986, she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art. She then continued her training at the prestigious Royal Academy of Art in London, where she obtained a Master of Art in 1989. It was during this period that she decided to come to France and joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris in the studio of Henri Cueco. She graduated in 1992 with the congratulations of the jury unanimously. After 10 years of studies in art school, she decided to come and live and work in the north of France, in Lille, where she set up her workshop. She will then share her art with other artists during artist residencies in Poland, Denmark, Italy, Finland, but also in France. His very rich, very contemporary work mixes colors, abstractions, writings, portraits to arouse emotions, or an emotion, so intense that the gaze can only cling to the complex color palette, both in harmony and in harmony. rupture. His universes are color, the portrait of strangers or artists. Video and digital have entered his artistic world in recent years. In 2014, she was in charge of teaching color and painting at the Calais art school, where she shared her vision as a painter of colors by showing how “artists' palettes are traces like mixtures of colors of life and their paintings ”.