Artist Statement
I have spent recent years surrounded by the beautiful North Yorkshire countryside. From the endless, free-flowing moorlands to the North Sea. This environment, along with the wildlife that lives here, nourishes me with imagery and informs my work.
The essence of my paintings speaks of transience, vulerability and fragility in the natural world. The shifting lights and colours over the landscape. The wildlife, intrinsically part of my environment, fragile and vulnerable to the constantly evolving spaces they live in.
Spaces and shadows, light and patterning are all elements that I explore in my process. Reality and memory move into abstraction. Developing my subject matter to explore further the emotional pull of colour and light in my painting. I use oils, wax, acrylics, pastels and handmade collage papers in my work.
Angela Bone
Born 1957
Lives and works in Whitby
Education
2009 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Hull
Courses
2019 Royal Academy, short course: Drawing the Animal Form, Anatomy of the Horse
2019 Royal Academy, short course: The Horse in Modern Art
Group Exhibitions
2009 Untitled, Yorkshire Coast College, Scarborough
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Old Codes New Chaos, Triton Gallery, Sledmere House, Sledmere
2015 Little Painting Challenge, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2023 Inspired By .. Gallery, Danby, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire Open Studios, at my home studio, Whitby
Still Life to Save Lives, Whitby Art Society, Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby
Little Picture Show, Inspired By .. Gallery, Danby, North Yorkshire
Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby Art Society
2024 Inspired By .. Gallery, Danby, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire Open Studios, at my home studio, Whitby
Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby Art Society
A Yorkshire Gallery, Wath Court, Hovingham
Christmas at the Inspired by … gallery
2025 North Yorkshire Open Studios, at my home studio, Whitby
Bio
Sent to boarding school at 11 years old, Angela’s only link to home was her pet guinea pig, which she was allowed to bring and keep in the ‘pet hut’. She felt early on that animals were there for her when humans weren’t. She found further emotional solace in art, pottery and welding; her happy place.
Leaving school with few qualifications, she travelled to Italy and then eventually to London, where she worked for many years in the creative industries. Following the ending of her first marriage, she moved back to her roots in North Yorkshire. It was here that she wanted to surround her children from her second marriage with nature, animals, art and creativity.
Painting again, drawing inspiration from the countryside around her home and her old horse. Grace, her horse, gave her the emotional and academic route into completing her Fine Art Degree (2009). From these foundations her work is informed and continues to develop.