ABOUT CHALLONER
Artist Biography
Challoner Spokes is a British painter living and working in Oxfordshire. Her paintings are full of colour and contrasts, depicting themes of pattern, nature and memory.
Challoner was born in Hertfordshire and has a BA Hons degree from University of Kent. As well as an experienced visual artist, Challoner specialises in creative education and training for adult learners. With well over a decade of experience, she is passionate about arts and helping others develop their skills. Since 2013 she has been delivering comprehensive art courses, workshops and demonstrations covering drawing, oil pastels, watercolours and acrylic painting.
Challoner’s original paintings and fine art prints are held in private collections in the UK, Netherlands and USA.
Artist Statement
Using bold colour, my work is concerned with the line that interrupts hues to define shape and objects. My oil paintings are representational though not bound by reality.
My work is responsive to the feeling of a moment and is autobiographical. Colours and perspective are shifted to express the emotion of an experience. I’m very interested in the visceral qualities and repetitive shapes that appear in the ways that we humans organise ourselves; nature; landscapes, agriculture and even shop displays demonstrate a need to organise and create patterns.