Rhonda Campbell

Rhonda graduated from the National Art School & Alexander Mackie College in Sydney, Australia. She then taught art in Australia & later design in London. Her career took a complete change & the next 25 years were spent in Fashion & Design.

Since retiring in 2000 Rhonda has taken up the paint brush again. She draws significant influence from her travels, in Outback Australia, also Europe & Asia. With an interest in colour, texture & mark making Rhonda’s works are built up with multiple layers, often scratching back those layers, particularly when working in oil, pigment & cold wax. She loves the spontaneity & “happy accidents” which occur when working in this way.

Rhonda has more recently taken a new direction in Abstraction – a memory of her subject (landscape or still life). Even though abstracted, the works often retain an echo of that subject.

She says, “many ideas & images pass through my mind as I paint but nothing else exists when I do, I’m totally absorbed in my work”.