Exhibition and Workshop News

Very happy to be returning to The Bowery on Saturday 13 May for our ‘Painting Portraits’ session, working from a sitter. Call Bowery on 0113 2242284 to book or via their website thebowery.org

Here’s a short video of the joint exhibition at the gallery, ‘A Splash of Colour’ last year:

A Splash of Colour

Delighted to be included in ‘We Called Yesterday Today’ – Cupola Contemporary Art Christmas show. And very happy that my painting ‘Query’ is in the publicity! Opening tomorrow evening from 7:30.

Welcome to Sheffield event listing

Come along to view paintings, prints, reproductions and a few of my Daily Drawings sketchbooks!

Little Nomad Gallery, Keighley Arts Hub

5 November – 17 December 2022

“Vivid, gestural oil paintings display a fascination with facial expressions. Viv has the help of unwitting accomplices she ‘captures’ from feature films and TV to see these fleeting expressions. Viv chooses her subjects from familiar dramas, aiming to portray a key moment of anticipation or reaction, that viewers will find puzzling and relatable Viv comments in her work on getting emotionally entangled with artificial dramas. Painting becomes a useful way of reusing the headspace that these fictional people take up Viv often arranges many paintings as an immersive wall of images, or in small groups as intimate as family snapshots on a mantelpiece. She has displayed in old industrial mills, reclaimed empty shops, museum spaces and galleries further afield in Sheffield and London”

Very excited to announce my solo show ‘Familiar Strangers’ starting next weekend at Little Nomad Gallery, Keighley. The opening event is next Saturday 5 November 2pm. There will be paintings, screenprints, wine and nibbles and friendly chat – come along!

Been a bit quiet lately. Unable to access the studio at the moment as the building is undergoing some refurbishment work. I’ve some exciting exhibition news – ‘Response (2022)’ (shown) is now available from Cupola Contemporary Art; and in November and December I’ll have two new exhibitions to share with you. In the meantime, Daily Drawings continue. Updated over on Instagram. Stay safe and thanks for looking