Ophelia Redpath

Ophelia Redpath was born in Cambridge in 1965. She attended the Arts Foundation course at Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology in 1983/84, and after further studies in Music and Education at Homerton College, she took up painting full-time. With a career spanning exactly 40 years Ophelia has exhibited work in over 100 shows in Britain and overseas and has won several awards including the 2021 Sky Landscape Artist of the Year. She currently lives in Norfolk.

“Ideas approach artists in mysterious ways. They never seem to arrive on time or in the place we look for them. But we need to look, and we need to arrive on time just incase one turns up.

When I hear something on the grapevine which gets a narrative going, I find a scene within it and let it grow. As a result, much of my work is based on hearsay, via reading, films, concerts, conversation, travels, or simply an inner vibration which needs to turn into something living. Perhaps my work is a form of painted gossip.” Ophelia Redpath