Surrey Hills Landscape Assessment
Biography: Pip Woolf
After graduating in Biology and English at Keele University, Pip spent several years working in environmental education. However in 1984 she rediscovered a personal need to make visual art. By 1990 she had initiated her own art group in Bristol working with people of all ages and abilities who had a desire to paint and draw. This work continues in Llangynidr, now her home and workplace.
Listening to live performance of music and time spent in India at a multi disciplinary school of performing arts, were formative in developing the crossfertilization of art forms and sensory expression in her work. Pip now paints full time. She undertakes commissioned portraits, as well as creating paintings in response to situations that present themselves. In 1997 she joined a team of artists, commissioned by the Countryside Commission and funded by the Arts Council, to contribute artistic perceptions of the landscape of the Surrey Hills for the landscape assessment of this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Education
1973-77
Keele University (full-time), Joint hons. BA 2.2 Biology & English, Cert. Ed. English & Drama
1978-80
City of London Polytechnic (part-time) MI Biol. Ecology & Behaviour, 2.2
1990-92
Queen's Road School of Art & Design (part-time) Cert. Art & Design, distinction
Career History
1978-81
Secondary School teaching Biology & 6th form General Studies
1981-87
Avon Wildlife Trust, directed and managed development of Wilisbridge Mill, the Trust's first visitor & education centre
1987 - present
Self employment:
present consultancy work in interpretative planning design implementation & training associated with environmental projects running courses facilitating individuals to develop artistic skills painting, (commissions & exhibitions)
Commissions
Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Landscape Assessment: Artist's Perceptions Project Murals for the Children's Day Centre Frenchay Park Hospital Portraits for individual clients and breeders of pedigree cattle and horses
Exhibitions
Individual shows
1991
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Tewksbury Library, & Bristol Central Library
1992
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, & Offices of Ryan: McKee Architects,
1993
Youth Hostel Association Centre, Bristol
1995
The Bear, Crickhowell, & Norwegian Church Centre Cardiff
1996
Royal Agricultural Show of England, Holstein Society Breed Pavilion
1997
Royal George Hotel, Knutsford, Land, Light and Colour
1998
Y Tabernacl. From a Brecon Barn
1999
ACAD Centre, Central Middlesex Hospital, London. Schubert series Group shows
1999
ACAD Centre, Central Middlesex Hospital, London. Schubert series
Group shows
1991
Women's Art Works Open, Bristol
1992
Women in Action open, Nicht Gallery & Buckingham Open, Wooton
1994
Women's Art Works Open, Cardiff & 'Fakes', Raw Gallery, London
1995
Silk Top Hat, Ludlow
1996
Beaufort Gallery, Crickhowell
1997
Pontardawe; Aspects of Wales, & 1997 Wales Drawing Biennale
1998
Manchester Academy of Fine Art Open
1998
Y Tabernacl, Gulbenkian Welsh Art Prize: Man, Heaven's Masterpiece
1998
Y Tabernacl, Black and White, invited artists
1998
Taunton Open Drawing Competition
Articles & Publications
1999
Winterreise, Interpretations across two Centuries of A Winter's Journey, a cross media publication in association with Robert Lloyd & Julius Drake, (pub. SEREN)
Artist's Newsletter:
Winter in India, Nov 1993
Artist and Illustrator:
One Piece of Advice, Jan 1997
