Purdey Fitzherbert

Purdey Fitzherbert (b.1987) followed her foundational studies at Wimbledon College of Art with an Honours Fine Art degree from Newcastle University, where she also worked with senior Psychology lecturer Dr Gabriele Jordan to enhance her knowledge on human experience of colour.
Since 2011, Purdey has exhibited in group shows with Hus Gallery in Monaco, Gstaad, Switzerland, New York, LA, Miami, Venice, London, SP-Arte, Sao Paulo International Art Fair and at the Dallas Art Fair. Purdey’s work has been collected by Dallas Museum of Art.

Purdey Fitzherbert’s lives and works in London, her works are a unique blend of classical Western training, and Japanese aesthetical values. For Purdey the process of creation is paramount. She stresses the importance and the innate beauty of traditional crafts techniques. The artist embraces the full journey in her works, starting with hand ground pigments all the way to relinquishing her dominant role as a maker and trusting the natural processes to carry through her artistic vision and to release the creative force behind it. Purdey herself views her painting practice it as a process of ‘discovery and mystery, some of which will always be unknown’. The courage of letting the beauty be revealed ‘from within the darkness of matter’ without interventions and impositions is the vital aspect of Purdey’s nature as an artist.