REBECCA BRAMWELL

Rebecca Bramwell studied at St Martins School of Art in the 1980’s. She currently lives and works in Chester in the northwest of England.

Working mainly in drawing and painting, her work is an exploration of flux, both material and metaphysical.

As a child I loved the diagrams in science text-books, the underlying patterns of life, described and delineated.

Magnetic fields, bee-dances and bird migration; feathers, atoms and cells. Copying in my exercise books, I was immersed in a world beyond the surface of everyday 'reality'.

Later, in the writings of Blake, Hesse and Rilke, punk rock, LSD and alchemical illustrations I found experiences that resonated with mine.

I still keep notebooks. Drawing is a conversation with myself, a way to work-stuff-out.

My artworks could be described as 'diagrams of the subconscious'. Akin, though not deliberately, to theosophical 'Thought Forms'.
RB

‘Art is a fruit that grows in man like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mother's womb’. Jean Arp