Details

First Name

Valerie
Last Name

Menon
Username

valmenon
Website

valmenon.com
Region

Edinburgh & The Lothians
Disciplines

Painting
Themes

Landscape

Statement

Statement

 

Val Menon is a painter based in Edinburgh. A Fine Art graduate of Nottingham College of Art and Design. She moved to Edinburgh in 1989 and is based in Coburg House Artist Studios.

 

My main visual interest is in exploring landscapes and particularly natural environments. My approach is unpremeditated.

I work outside and gather as much visual information as possible.

I try to explore the character of a place through observing. I spend time looking and responding to the environment that I immerse myself in.

I use a process of mixing, mark making and application of paint using drawing materials, watercolour, oil and more recently a complete natural paint system.

I like to find and reference hidden structures, exaggerate form and play with line.

I am always mindful of maintaining integrity of the subject.

It is a visual experience of the moment and I strive for the work to reflect it. Back in the studio I refer to my sketch book, paper works and words that I have written.

I start to look again, cross reference and play with the subject, paint, colour and scale.

Biography

Biography

BIOGRAPHY                                                    VALERIE MENON

PAINTER

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

 

2023  Two Person Exhibition at The Burnside Gallery

East West

 

2021  Two Person Exhibition at The Burnside Gallery

Settings

 

2021  Winter show at the Burnside Gallery

 

2017  Featured Artist at Marchmont Gallery

 

2017  Coburg house Gallery Solo ‘Seeing Kerala’

 

2016  Coburg House Gallery Solo ‘Kerala in Paint’

 

2015  Lothian Hospitals Touring

 

2014  Gallery Ten WEST

 

2013  Lothian Hospitals Touring

 

2010  Lothian Hospitals

 

2006  Royal College of Physicians Christmas Exhibition

 

2005  Royal College of Physicians Christmas Exhibition

 

2004  Solo Exhibition Warrender Park Terrace

 

2003  Open Hospitals

 

1996  Eastern General Exhibition ‘Regeneration’

 

1993  Collective Gallery Exhibition CD2

 

1992  Collective Gallery Exhibition CD1

 

1991  Collective Gallery Postcard Exhibition

Festival Exhibition

 

1990  Women 2000 Glasgow ‘Of Woman’

 

1988  Castle Museum Nottingham Christmas Exhibition

 

1987  Potters House Nottingham Student Group

 

1995  Bluecoat Chambers Graduate Exhibition

 

JURIED EXHIBITIONS                              

2023  Institute of Paisley Open

 

2018  Institute of Paisley Open

 

2017  Institute of Paisley Open

 

2013  VAS  Gracefield Arts Centre Dunfries

 

2011  RSA Open

 

 

 

Charity Exhibitions                 

2018           Maggie’s  Centre

 

2017/8        Penumbra

                    St Columba’s Hospice

 

Memberships

 SSA

 

VAS

 

 

Related work

2000-2014  Teaching Children’s Art Classes and Art Club

 

2009-2017  Creative Art Leader Learning Disability

NHS Lothian

 

1990-1994   Member of Collective Gallery

Convener of Education and Member Services