Name Molly Garnier Role Artist | Education Gresham's School | |
Molly Garnier, born at Salisbury, England in 1981, is an English artist.
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Early life
From 1993 to 1999, Garnier was educated in England at Gresham's School, Holt, and then from 1999 in Scotland at the Edinburgh College of Art, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours in Art and Design in 2003. While a student, Garnier spent her summers travelling in Italy, Greece and Spain, staying in major European artistic cities. In 2000, she visited Thailand and Malaysia.
Work
Garnier is principally a figurative painter, and is best known for her paintings of the female nude. She has said "I am concerned with the feeling, the impression, the revelation a painting gives you rather than actual realism", and that she "explores the play of light and shadow on skin tones". Some of her work is inspired by her latest travels, which include trips to the Himalayas and Rajasthan.
The critic Moira Jeffrey has called Garnier's work "reminiscent of Degas and those Victorian photographs of women accidentally glimpsed in domestic surroundings". Duncan MacMillan wrote in The Scotsman in 2003 of her "small smoky images of the female nude that are quite memorable" and in 2004 of Garnier's "exquisite small nude paintings".
Exhibitions
Garnier originally exhibited mostly in Scotland. In Edinburgh, at the Royal Society of Arts Annual Exhibition, the RSA's Visual Arts Scotland, the Royal College of Physicians, the Leith Gallery, the Morningside Gallery, the Scottish Gallery, and the Phoenix 369 Gallery; and also at the Compass Gallery, Glasgow, the South Street Gallery, St Andrews, the Frames Gallery, Perth, the Cairns Gallery, Peebles, the Paisley Institute of Art and Design, Paisley, and the RendezVous Gallery, Aberdeen. More recently she has exhibited regularly at the Lime Tree Gallery in Long Melford, Suffolk, and Bristol. She has had three solo shows at Lime Tree Gallery, most recently in 2012. In London, she has exhibited work at Painters' Hall, the Northcote Gallery, the Air Gallery, and the Collyer-Bristow Gallery.
An early solo exhibition was at Morston Hall, Norfolk, in 2003.