Barbara Blackett

Flowers & BotanicalAnimals & NatureNature
Written By Wolfango Chiappella

After a lifetime spent creating and teaching art, I still approach each new piece with a spirit of exploration. I enjoy painting, drawing, collage and mixed media, and often combine texture, colour, and unexpected marks to create richly layered images.
Nature is a recurring source of inspiration, from flowers and seed heads to woodland scenes and birds. Nevertheless,  my work is less about recording a subject and more about responding to it through colour, pattern and experimentation.
In particular, collage fascinates me because it leads the imagination along an unknown path.

Wolfango Chiappella

I’m a British-Italian artist, based in Buckinghamshire but originally from the rolling hills of Piedmont, Italy. I paint mostly in oils, working from memory, sketches, and those quiet moments when a place stops you mid-step.

My work tends to orbit around landscapes — not the grand postcard kind, but the everyday corners where light, sky, and earth have a quiet conversation. I’m drawn to the shifts in weather, the worn paths, the way a tree can lean into a field like it's got a story to tell.

I’m not much for big statements. I paint what I notice, and sometimes what I miss. Sometimes I’m chasing a real memory, sometimes it’s the feeling of one.

Each painting is a small attempt to hold onto something fleeting — a sky clearing after rain, the gold haze of a summer field, the hush just before dusk. If you find a bit of yourself in any of them, then the painting’s done its job.

https://wolfango.com
Previous

Sue Bicknell
Next

Joanna Brownridge