Painter and printmaker Shelly Tregoning was born in Mauritius and spent her early life being raised in the West Indies. She was educated in England and now lives and works in West Cornwall, having gained her BA in Fine Art at University College Falmouth in 2011. Her exceptional work has been selected for the Discerning Eye Exhibition, the National Open Art Competition, RWA exhibitions and the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition.
“My work is a response to the intimacies of my life - an emotional connection to those closest to me and to fragments of the everyday that I encounter. I am trying to make sense in some way, of life and personal identity - through conversations with friends, places I have been and the things I see along the way. Visually gathering ‘moments’ which inform my work, these drawings and scribbles create a scaffolding upon which I build my images. I don’t want simply to re-create an illustration of place or person, but rather through marks, painterly gestures and line, to express sensation and a sense of identity. I want to convey a sense of immediacy, brevity and transience. In a quiet way I want to speak of universal truths and what it is to be emotionally connected”.