Penny Overton Art
Biography
Penny Overton was born in Berkshire and raised in Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire and Cheshire. A graduate of a Foundation Degree in Art, specialising in fine art and ceramics at Euclid Street College in Swindon, Wiltshire, Penny has continued with her art practice throughout her years raising a family in Leamington Spa and now in the beautiful South Norfolk village of Hingham.
In 2018 she made the decision to restart her professional art career, specialising in land and seascapes and in a first step back into the art world, entered the wildcard competition on Sky Arts’ ‘Landscape Artist Of The Year’ TV series. She was selected as one of the fifty wildcard artists who were invited to Inveraray in Argyll & Bute to paint alongside the featured artists in the programme. Penny won the wildcard competition, appearing on the programme and going on to also be selected as a wildcard for the following two years.
About Me
This endorsement kick-started a career which has gone on to see her open her own gallery – Little London Gallery – in Hingham and in the meantime has exhibited at The Pump Room, Art In The Park and The Loft Theatre in Leamington Spa and Number 8 Gallery in Pershore
Penny specialises in landscapes, seascapes and abstract paintings and prints, inspired by her view of the Norfolk countryside and coast. Her work captures the changing seasons, colour and light, expressing her own emotional response to what she sees.
She works in acrylics, bringing extra depth, texture and intricacy by combining the paint with other media including chalk, pastel, ink, sand, foil, even tea and coffee grounds. Natural objects like leaves, feathers and earth may feature, with Penny often scraping back layers and then reapplying paint multiple times, washing over the canvases with other media and applying colour and texture with non-traditional implements, to achieve a complex and captivating result that is as much a physical and emotional response to the land and sea as it is a depiction of them.
Shop
‘Yellow Verbascum in summer with the moon looking on’ is an acrylic and pastel painting on board, heavily varnished and framed in a mossy green solid wood frame. Total dimensions including frame are 41cm.
‘Thaw’ is an acrylic and pastel painting on board, framed in a slightly distressed solid wood frame, painted a dark Navy. Dimensions are 39cm square.
‘Pebbles’ is a contemporary acrylic, sand and pastel painting on unframed, stretched canvas; it explores my interest in the textures, shapes and organic mark-making which I feel is apt to the subject.
The painting has dimensions of 59.5cm height x 42cm width, the edge is approx. 2cm deep and is painted dark blue. This is quite a textured piece but is finished with satin varnish which provides a soft sheen and durability. It is signed, dated and ready to hang with cord attached.
‘Weybourne Beach’ is an original acrylic and pastel painting of the popular Weybourne Beach on the north Norfolk Coast. The painting is on unframed stretched canvas, has dimensions of 50cm square with an edge of approx. 2cm which is painted blue, is signed, dated and ready to hang with cord attached. It’s finished with a gloss varnish.
‘Coastal Path’ is an acrylic, ink, pastel and sand painting on stretched canvas, set in a handmade solid wood frame which is painted in Strong White (Farrow and Ball). The painting, including frame, has dimensions of 87cm width x 61.5cm height.
The painting has quite a textured surface and is finished with satin varnish, is signed, dated and ready to hang with cord attached.
‘Formation’ is an original acrylic, pastel and beach sand painting of Hunstanton cliffs, on the North Norfolk coast. The painting is on unframed stretched canvas and is finished with gloss varnish. Measuring 60cm square it is signed, dated and ready to hang with cord attached.
Events
- Open Studios, Norfolk, 2022 - exhibitor
- Open Studios, Norfolk, 2021 – exhibitor
- Opened Little London Gallery 2021, Hingham, Norfolk
- Landscape Artist Of the Year, 2019, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex – wildcard selection
- Leamington Studio Artists, East Lodge, Leamington Spa, 2019 – exhibitor
- Number 8 Gallery, Pershore, 2018 – exhibitor
Little London Gallery
Penny and her family moved to the beautiful Market Town of Hingham, South Norfolk in 2019. The Georgian town house provided a lovely opportunity to work from the studio and gallery in what was once the sitting room, with lots of natural light from the original shuttered windows. The Gallery is named after the house, hence ‘Little London Gallery’, with the term ‘Little London’ first being used in Georgian times to reflect the fashionable row of houses on the east side of the Market Place.
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