Kent, UK
“I don’t know how to love a place…”
My family fled Hungary in 1956, leaving me with a lasting sense of displacement. Belonging everywhere and nowhere, I am a nomadic observer whose paintings explore transitional spaces inspired from childhood by the Dutch Masters. Often combining figuration and abstraction, my work examines places in constant transformation where physical, emotional, and material boundaries intersect. Through hi-vis linear systems, repetition, editing, and reinterpretation, I respond to fleeting encounters, overlooked environments, and the rhythms of everyday life. Precision is suggested, imperfections emerge, and unexpected narratives unfold with subtle dystopian undertones. Drawn to the ephemeral moment, my work reflects psychologically on passing through places rather than belonging to them. A rootless wanderer/wonderer, a twenty-first century flâneuse, I live and work between London and Kent. She graduated with an MFA from UAL, London in 2017. I also run an independent art school for people of all ages and abilities.
Why
Oil and fluorescent tape on linen
Website: www.andreacoltman.com
Social: Instagram
Details: CV
Virga Gallery 