Scarlett Segal is a French born artist who recently moved from London to East Sussex. She explores spatial representation and perception in a multi-disciplinary practice that includes paintings and prints. Her landscapes and still lifes, inspired by her immediate surroundings and travels, are usually constructed spaces from sketches in situ and/or from memory that are an emotional response to both a sense of place and a state of mind. Her abstract geometrical works are infused with energy, direction, variability and speed thanks to the methodical placement of opaque and transparent layers from multiple points of perspective. She aims to provide escapism in her own imaginary worlds.
Scarlett’s fascination for art history translates into an eclectic style and playful use of materials and surfaces. She experiments in representational and non representational work in order to push boundaries as did some of the artists she so admires such as Corot, Vermeer, Morisot, Turner, Whistler, Cézanne, Malevich, Sonia Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and many more. She thoroughly enjoys blending and blurring the classical genres of landscape, still life and sometimes portraiture as she believes that all artworks are worthy of a narrative. In other words, everywhere, everything and everyone of us tells a story. These moments have been banalised by the ease with which we can take photographs that are rarely glanced and forgotten in the cloud. The role of the artist is to observe, zoom in and choose one evocative snapshot that in turn will resonate with us so that we can be suspended in time and space.
Scarlett’s work is held in private collections in France, UK, Germany and US.
Commissions on request.
2023
Exhibition at G&S Gallery, London
Exhibition at Artwave Festival, Lewes
Exhibition at St Mary and St Peter’s Church, Wilmington
2019
Exhibited at Open Studios at Thameside, London
2017
Exhibited at the Menier Gallery, Southwark
Winner of the Kennerley prize for Academic Excellence
2016
Exhibited at the Southwark Borough Council
Exhibited at the Art Academy Print Show
2014
Exhibited at Jardinique Antiques Hampshire
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