Still Life Painting Demo with Abigail Burton: Mall Galleries
An opportunity to join Abigail Burton as she creates a still life painting in the gallery. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and talk to Abigail about her work.
Abigail Burton will give a painting demonstration exploring the expressive and abstract potential of drapery. Working from direct observation of a simple still life involving fabric, Abigail will discuss how drapery can suggest unseen forces, emotions, create ambiguity and atmosphere, and act as a powerful tool for abstraction: grouping shapes, simplifying forms, and manipulating edges in ways that echo peripheral vision. Abigail's approach will be responsive and perceptual, beginning with large abstract shapes of carefully mixed colour and an emphasis on key edges and the overall visual rhythm of the image, before gradually developing the forms into this structure.
TIMES
Painting demonstration: 1pm – 4pm
PRICE
Free with gallery admission
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Abigail Burton is a classically trained oil painter from London. She trained in classical realism at the Barnes Atelier, where she learned to craft meticulous studio works. She later joined the North London Group, where she encountered a more expressive, poetic, and perceptual approach to painting. This dual influence continues to shape her practice, which ranges across figure, still life, and landscape, and she continues to study through careful transcriptions of masterworks from art history.