BIOGRAPHY
Blaze was born in Wiltshire and now lives and works in London. She graduated from the City & Guilds of London Art School in 2014 with an M.A. in Fine Art, after a previous career in the fashion industry. Blaze is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, a member of the Society of Wood Engravers, and also the Arborealists. Working within the mediums of drawing, etching, woodcut and wood engraving, her subject area is British landscape and she has shown work with many of the leading art and printmaking societies.
Blaze is represented by Eames Fine Art Gallery, London.
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EDUCATION
2013-2014 MA Fine Art City & Guilds of London Art School
1989-1992 B.A. (Hons) Fashion Design University of Westminster (Harrow College)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2021 SWE - Elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers
2019-20 RE - Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2019 RE - Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2017-20 RE - Council member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2017 RE - Elected Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2017 The Arborealists - Treasurer for the Arborealists
2015 The Arborealists - Joined
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 In the Shadow of Trees - Boxset Eames Fine Art, Bermondsey, London SE1
2021 A Landscape of Trees Eames Fine Art, Bermondsey, London SE1
2019 Arboreal Leith Hill Place National Trust, Surrey
2016 Time & Tide Wellington College, Berkshire
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Living with Trees St Mary’s, Barnes, London SW13
2023 RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London
2023 RE Originals Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2023 Paradise Found- Blackdown Hills Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2023 The World in the Palm of Your Hand Heilongjiang Museum of Printmaking, China
2022 The Arborealists & Guests Fyne Court, Somerset
2022 RE Summer Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2022 Poetry & Nature Scottish Ornithology Society, Edinburgh
2022 SWE 84th Annual Exhibition Tour Society of Wood Engravers, (various Galleries)
2022 The Arborealists: Dartmoor Artmill Gallery, Plymouth
2022 London Lives Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2022 RE Annual Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2022 Arborealists: Regeneration Nature In Art Gallery, Gloucestershire
2022 RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London
2022 Lost Wax for Lost Species Vittoria Street Gallery, Birmingham
2021 The Arborealists Lanacre Barn Gallery, Somerset
2021 RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London W1
2021 Berlin Mini-Maxi Print Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin , Germany
2021 Unsettling Landscapes:Art of the Eerie St Barbe Gallery & Museum, Hampshire
2021 A Year of Chelsea Physic Garden Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2021 SWE 83rd Annual Exhibition Tour Society of Wood Engravers, (various locations)
2021 RE Summer Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2021 RE Original Prints Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2021 Being with Trees/Arborealists Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery, Casemates Square, Gibraltar
2020 A Common Place Eames Fine Art print Room, Bermondsey, London SE1
2020 The Narrative of Trees Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
2020 Printmakers in Lockdown Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2020 Arborealists National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire
2020 RE Summer Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2020 Arborealists The Somerset Museum, Taunton
2020 Arborealists The Richard Jeffries Museum, Swindon
2020 SWE 82nd Annual Exhibition Society of Wood Engravers, Bankside, London
2020 London Original Print Fair Royal Academy of Arts, (online)
2020 RE Original Prints Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2019 Mini Picture Show (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2019 The Contemporary Print Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon
2019 Coast & Country North Walls Arts Centre, Oxford
2019 The Masters (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2019 National Original Print Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2019 R A Summer Exhibition Royal Academy Of Arts, London W1
2019 Spotlight Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2019 The Arborealists Fyne Court, Bridgewater, Somerset
2019 The Arborealists Turbine House, Reading, Berkshire
2019 The Arborealists Young Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2019 RE Originals Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2019 SWE 81st Annual Exhibition Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2019 SWE 81st Annual Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London, SE1
2019 London Original Print Fair Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, W1
2018 Mini Picture Show (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2018 SWE 81st Annual Exhibition BRLSI, Bath
2018 SWE 81st Annual Exhibition Kevis House Gallery, Petworth, W Sussex
2018 The Berlin Mini-Print Galleri Heike Arndt DK Berlin, Germany
2018 The Arborealists / St Ives Society St Ives, Cornwall
2018 SWE 81st Annual Exhibition North Walls Gallery, Oxford
2018 National Original Print Bankside Gallery, London, SE1
2018 'Off the Wall' Bankside Gallery, London, SE1
2018 The Discerning Eye Collection Guildford House Gallery, Guildford, Surrey
2018 The Arborealists Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset
2018 The RE @ 'For Arts Sake' Gallery, Ealing, London
2018 Print Rebels @The Burton (Tour) Gallery & Museum, Bideford, Devon
2018 The Burton Gallery Bideford, Devon
2018 Print Rebels @ Chapel Arts(Tour) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
2018 Printmaking H.Art Chapel Gallery, Bromyard, Herefordshire
2018 The Arborealists Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow, Shropshire
2018 The Arborealists Monmouth Museum, Wales
2018 RE Originals Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2018 London Original Print Fair Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, W1
2018 Print Rebels (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2018 Pastel Society Annual Exhibition Mall Galleries, London, SW1
2017 Mini Picture Show (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2017 Arborealists:The Art of Trees Bermondsey Project Space, London SE1
2017 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, SW1
2017 MA + Fellows Show City & Guilds of London Art School, London
2017 Woolwich Print Fair Woolwich, London SE18
2017 National Original Print Bankside Gallery, London, SE1
2017 Jiangsu Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London, SE1
2017 'Into the Woods' The Chapel Gallery, Herefordshire
2017 The Arborealists Abbaye de Sainte-Benoit, Poitiers, France
2017 The Arborealists Nature In Art Museum & Gallery, Gloucestershire
2017 RE Original Prints Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2017 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London NW3
2017 London Original Print Fair Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London W1
2016 Woolwich Print Fair Woolwich, London SE18
2016 National Original Print (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2016 The Art of the Tree (Arborealists) Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
2016 The Arborealists St Barbe Museum & Gallery, Lymington
2015 ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, London SW1
2015 The Masters (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2015 RWA 163rd Annual Exhibition Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2015 National Original Print (RE) Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2015 ‘Islands of the Blest’ Strand Gallery, London WC2
2015 From the Studio Floor Anise Gallery, Shad Thames, London SE1
2015 Royal Society of British Artists Mall Galleries, London SW1
2015 RBA Rising Stars Exhibition Lloyd’s Register Gallery, London EC3
2015 Works on Paper Science Museum, London SW7
2014 AAF Recent Graduates Exhibition Battersea Park, London SW1
2014 MA Graduation Show City & Guilds of London Art School, SE11
2014 London Original Print Fair Royal Academy, London SW1
2013 Royal Society of British Artists Mall Galleries, London SW1
2012 Society of Graphic Fine Artists Menier Gallery, London SE1
2012 Cork Street Open Exhibition Cork Street, London W1
2012 R.E. Open Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London SE1
2012 Society of Women Artists Mall Galleries, London SW1
2012 Royal Society of British Artists Mall Galleries, London SW1
2011 ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, London SW1
2011 Cork Street Open Exhibition Cork Street, London W1
AWARDS
2019 Eames Fine Art Purchase Prize, The Masters Exhibition, Bankside Gallery
2018 Prize for First Time Exhibitor, 81st Annual Exhibition, Society of Wood Engravers
2017 Ashmolean/Vivian Leigh Purchase Prize, RE Exhibition, Bankside Gallery
2015 Finalist ING Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, Mall Galleries
2015 Finalist RBA Rome Scholarship, Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries
2014 Norman Ackroyd Prize for Etching, City & Guilds of London Art School
2014 Slaughterhaus Print Studio Prize, City & Guilds of London Art School
COLLECTIONS
2022 Heilongjiang Museum of Printmaking, China
2018 HRH Queen Elizabeth II, RE ‘Print REbels’ Boxset, London
2018 Ashmolean Museum, RE ‘Print REbels’ Boxset, London
2018 British Museum, RE ‘Print REbels’ Boxset, London
2018 Victoria & Albert Museum, Print Collectors Club RE, London
2017 Ashmolean Museum, RE Diploma Collection, Oxford
2017 Ashmolean Museum / Vivian Leigh Collection, Oxford
2016 Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
2015 ING Discerning Eye Collection
RESIDENCIES
2015 Cill Rialaig Arts Residency Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, Ireland
PUBLICATIONS & WRITING
2021 Unsettling Landscapes: The Art of the Eerie, Published by Samson & Co
2021 The Arborealists: Being with Trees Published by Plato-Beale productions
2021 Artist Feature: Published by: Art Reveal Magazine 58th Issue
2020 Art Meets Ecology: The Arborealists in Lady Park Wood Published by Samson & Co
2019 ‘Quotes Vol 2’ Wild House Publishing UK
2019 ‘Quotes’ Published by Strawlitter Productions UK
2018 Review of ‘First impressions’ Book Published in Printmaking Today magazine
2018 Print Rebels (Origins of the RE) Published by Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
2017 The Arborealists: The Art of Trees Published by Plato-Beale productions
2016 The Arborealists: The Art of the Tree Published by Samson & Co
TEACHING
2022-Present Wood Engraving Tutor Morley College, London, SE1
2018-Present Etching Tutor City & Guilds London Art School, London, SE11
2015-Present Etching Tutor Putney School of Art, Putney, London SW15
2014-17 Printmaking Fellow City & Guilds London Art School, London SE11