Georgia Cox

Georgia is a painter who uses the natural world as source and inspiration for her work. Using oil paint, she explores the sensual characteristics of flowers and plants, capturing their essence by enhancing their velvety, crepe and pearlescent qualities. There is a melancholic beauty to the flora she works with, its decay has a poignancy that fascinates her. She experiments with harmonious, vibrant, combinations of colour as well as Gold/Copper/Silver leaf for its opulent and shimmering qualities, building up layers that she then scores, rubs away and re-paints into a textural palimpsest. Inspiration comes from the work of Dutch Flower painters of the 17th century, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Japanese antique screens and Tudor portraits for their rich qualities of colour, intricate detail and skilled craftsmanship.



Repetition and pattern have been central themes in her work since she started painting.She sees this as Gestalt, a building up of small elements to make a whole which is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. Armoury, quilting and tiles are sources of inspiration as well as an interest in Mandalas and the Fibonacci sequence for their detailed and mathematical approaches to pattern and form in nature. She tends not to work to a plan, instead, enjoying the serendipity of working from the middle outwards. It is an intricate, organic stepping stone approach and process of emergence and discovery.