Award winning artist, Faye Bridgwater, spends her days looking up at the sky and out to sea. Having grown up in Watford, she then studied for her degree in Sculpture in the industrial city of Sheffield. She now lives in the stimulating and fun city of Brighton and Hove. Every day, she enjoys observing the ever-changing weather over the horizon, hearing the sounds of the seagulls and the pebbles tumbling in the waves. Now a contemporary landscape and floral artist, her work is influenced by the Sussex coastline, with its tall, white, bold cliffs, and the graceful, elegant rolling hills of the South Downs and its flora; together inspiring her joyful abstract compositions.

Faye’s paintings capture those fleeting and dramatic moments of light, playful movement and thrilling feelings. She uses loose, bold layers of paint, adding detail with impulsive pencil structured lines, the techniques produce expressive textured and flowing seascapes and landscape. The paintings are familiar and timeless and conjure distant, comforting memories.  

Faye has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, Glyndebourne Opera House as well as with the ING Discerning Eye and the Society of Women Artists. She has received a number of awards including John Purcell Paper Prize with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Derwent Art Prize (People's Choice Award). 

AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

2024

• Selected as a course tutor for St Ives School of Painting

• Appointed as a judge for Guildford House Open

• Florals collection selected by King&McGaw

• Shortlisted for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (awaiting final decision)

2023

• Shaun By The Sea Art Trail in association with Martlets

• Shaun By The Sea Auction - sale of Bloom for £25,000 for the benefit of Marlets

• Prints selected by John Lewis

• Celebrate Cuckmere - Artwave

• Artist Open Houses, Brighton - Ballroom and Understory

• Glyndebourne - Fairground I

• Guest Artist for Episode 206 of Art Juice podcast

• Winter Artists Open Houses, Brighton

• New landscapes and sketchbooks selected by King&McGaw

2022

• Glyndebourne - Fairground I

• Art Car Boot Fair - It’s a Pattern

• Limited Editions selected by King&McGaw

• Artwave, the Old Dairy Shed

• Artist Open Houses, Brighton

• Winter Artists Open Houses, Brighton

2021

• In Bloom at the Saatchi Gallery

• Solo Exhibition - Ritual and Repetitions - Glyndebourne - Gallery 94, 2021

• Art Car Boot Fair - Queen and Country

• Art Car Boot Fair - Flora and Fauna

• Double Winner - Artists Open Houses 2021- Best House and Best Artist

• The ING Discerning Eye

• Glyndebourne - Fair Ground I

• Cover Artist for Artwave Festival

2020

• Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 208th Exhibition - Winner of the John Purcell Paper Prize

• The Derwent Art Prize - Winner of the Peoples Choice

• ING Discerning Eye

• Society of Women Artists - 159th Annual Open Exhibition

PRESS AND TELEVISION

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