COLIN WILLEY
Based in Dorchester in Dorset on the south coast of England, Colin Willey has become a highly sought-after and accomplished landscape artist, with work in numerous private and public collections throughout the UK and beyond, including a series of landscapes commissioned by the Palace of Westminster, London to hang in the House of Lords.
Born in 1972 he had his first breaks after winning prestigious awards at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and the Mall Galleries, London. He has exhibited for the last ten years with Carina Haslam Art at all the major UK art fairs, where he has consistently been one of CHA’s and the AAF’s best-selling artists. Colin has also exhibited regularly at the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) and the New English Art Club (NEAC).
Colin’s work is principally about light and its effects – how light continually changes, transforming the landscape from one moment to the next. Expressing his fascination for the ancient 'Jurassic' coasts of Dorset and East Devon he spontaneously captures its vast skies, billowing clouds and shimmering light. He has an instinctive feel for the uniquely dramatic quality of that stretch of the English coastline, which is now a designated World Heritage site.
Mixed exhibitions
2016 (with Carina Haslam Art)
Affordable Art Fair (AAF), London: Battersea/Hampstead
AAF New York
2015 (with Carina Haslam Art)
20/21 International Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
AAF London: Battersea/Hampstead
AAF New York
Chelsea Art Fair
AAF Bristol
Cambridge City Art Fair
2014 20/21 International Art Fair, Royal College of Art,London
AAF, London Battersea
(and annually since 2003 with Carina Haslam Art)
Oxford and Cambridge Art Fairs
AAF New York with CHA
Chelsea Art Fair, London with CHA
2013 (with Carina Haslam Art)
AAF London Hampstead
AAF Bristol
Chelsea Art Fair
Cambridge Art Fair
Solo exhibitions
2012 Gallery on the square, Poundbury
Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester
2011 Blue Sky Gallery, Bridport
2009 Brownsword Hall, Poundbury
2008 The Pierrepoint Gallery, Bridport
2005 Elder & Froy, Poundbury
Brownsword Hall, Poundbury
2003 Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
2000 The Gallery Dorchester
Further mixed exhibitions
1998–present Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge
2011–present Lyndhurst Gallery, Hampshire
2011–present Mulberry Tree Gallery, Swanage
2010-–present Blue Sky Gallery, Bridport
2012–present D’Art Gallery, Dartmouth
2009–present Artemisia Gallery, Abbotsbury
2010 'Artists of the Jurassic Coast’, Eype Centre for the Arts
2007–2010 Russell Gallery, Putney
2004–2010 The Pierrrepoint Gallery, Bridport
2010 ‘New Beginnings’, Dorchester
2004–2006 Carina Haslam at the Lennox Gallery, London
Open exhibitions
2005–present ‘Art for Youth’, Royal College of Art
1998, 2000, 2001, 2006 New English Art Club
1997, 1999, 2001, 2002 Royal Society of Marine Artists
1997, 2001 Royal Institute of Oil Painters
2001 Royal Society of British Artists
1999, 2000 Royal West of England Academy
1997 The Laing Landscape Exhibition
Publications
Two articles for The Artist magazine
Feb 2003: Represented on the front cover of Ideal Home magazine
Jul 2009: Featured in Dorset Magazine
Featured in the book Art Class, published by Harper Collins
Training
1996–1997 University of Brighton, PGCE (Art & Design)
1992–1995 Cheltenham & Gloucester College, BA (Hons) Fine Art
1991–1992 Harrow College, Foundation (Art & Design)
Awards
2005 Winner of the Diana Brooks prize, ‘Art for Youth’ London
1997, 2001 Finalist in the Winsor and Newton Young Artist competition
Public collections
2011 Triptych for the National Health Service (NHS), England
2011 House of Lords, Westminster, London
Major acquisition by the Palace of Westminster, London: four paintings purchased for the House of Lords permanent collection