Candida Cea Blyth

Candida Cea Blyth studied Art History at the University of East Anglia.  Born in West Sussex, she has travelled widely, studying indigenous art in Australia, Thailand and Africa.  “Her paintings are an experience of British indigenous art; inspired by the colours, sparkles and textures of the earth as much as by the energies and archetypes that present themselves from the landscape.  Her individual style is simple and expressive, with flat areas of colour to show off the colours of the Earth.

The paintings are created with pigments, which Cea collects as soil from different locations and then fixes them with ‘gum arabic’ and a resin from almond trees, which she collects in Spain… the basic framework for many of her compositions is the painting of stripes out of which a landscape emerges. The horizons created by overlapping edges become the rise and fall of the land.  These paintings are meditative, elemental and expressive” (read more at www.c-blyth.com)

Despite chronic health problems which have developed since 2001, Cea has continued to practice as an artist.  The Eaton Fund awarded Cea a grant as a contribution to essential repairs to her home.

June 2009

Dartmoor Rainbow 2006