About the Artist
Samantha is an artist, curator, and educator based in East London. She curated Sam's Salon gallery from 1994–2004 showcasing young artists' work, and provided studios for artists and creatives from 1998–2015. In 2000 she was a founder member of the artists cooperative Temple Arts Group, whose aim was to work within the local community of Bethnal Green. Samantha has been an art consultant for Stoke Newington, Islington and Coin Street festivals and has been artist in residence at The Whitechapel Gallery and publicist for Chisenhale Gallery.
In Her Own Words
"I am inspired by the nostalgia of childhood. I'm not a hoarder of things but I am a hoarder of memories. The paintings are snapshots or postcards from my past. They represent fond memories of twenty summers spent with my family in the tiny village of Vallejera, Spain and my friends' farm in Bushmills, Northern Ireland. Using photographs allows me to tune into the emotion I have for the landscape. When I am painting dolls, toys, or the objects that I surround myself with, they each have a history with me and this is what I am capturing in the paint."
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