Details

First Name

Valerie
Last Name

Hamilton
Username

valeriehamilton
Region

Edinburgh & The Lothians
Disciplines

Drawing, Illustration, Painting
Themes

Figurative, Narratives

Statement

Statement

 

 

At present I am creating images using mixed media including collage, drawing in different media as well as painting with oil, acrylic, gouache and watercolour paint.

I enjoy using various collected and found materials with different colours and textures. Sometimes objects will stimulate ideas.

My imaginary themes are from lived experience – my travels, my friends and family and objects in my home.

 

 

 

Biography

Biography

Valerie Hamilton is a Scottish painter whose work is imaginative and unique. Her paintings are in collections in Austria, France and the Netherlands and she has exhibited extensively throughout the UK particularly in London and Edinburgh. 
In Scotland: VAS, SSA, The Pier Arts Centre, The Paisley Institute and The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. 
In England:  The Mall Galleries in the Pastel Society, The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, The New English Arts Club and in 2014 one of her paintings was included  in The Summer Exhibition at The Royal Academy of Art, London.

 
Valerie’s paintings are created using oil, acrylic, watercolour and gouache, and are known for their experimentation in mixed media giving her work it’s distinctive style.
 
Having previously lived and worked in Orkney, Valerie now splits her time between Gullane, East Lothian and Oxted, Surrey. She was a winner in 2013 and 2015 at The Pittenweem Arts Festval drawing competitions.

She won the VAS Lily McDougall Award in 2016.