My Campbell MA (Fine Art)

Original Contemporary Artwork

About the Artist - My Campbell

‘Spontaneity is the inarticulate expression of the primordial spirit, a force that has a certain rhythm and weight that is not an objective form.’

……...... and so it is with My’s paintings, whose compositions are not predetermined but evolve through the working process.

Stimulating and evocative, her work originates from numerous sources including personal memory in relation to a place or event. The study of various historical movements and individual artists, such as Peter Lanyan, Joan Eardley, Rufino Tamayo, Maurice Cockrill, Willem de Kooning, Asger Jorn, Richard Diebenkorn and Barbara Rae, provide an on going stimulus.

My Campbell was born in Liverpool and named Marion Campbell. Her nickname of My originated from her schooldays and has stayed with her ever since. My now lives with her husband in Abersoch, North Wales, where the quality of light, the hidden woodlands and the reed beds along the river Soch, combined with the changing moods and colours of the Irish Sea, provide a very special and often raw environment in which she works. 

My divides her working time between her studios in Abersoch and her new studio in Newtown, Pennsylvania. This latest studio was established to meet a growing demand for her work in America.

My believes passionately that her studies and training over the years have helped to create the disciplines to unleash her creative thinking. My has worked alongside leading artists - Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Professor Philip Melton - at Edinburgh College of Art and spent time in workshops studying with several other prominent artists, including Mo Jupp, John Maltby, Lys Hanson and Margaret Hunter. My has also lectured on study tours to Florence, Venice and Basel, Switzerland and has exhibited her work widely at various venues

My travels extensively throughout Europe and America, spending several months each year gaining additional inspiration and impetus for her latest paintings.

Most of My’s paintings are in the size range 50cm to 120cm and are ideal for the home and private office. Her work has also included larger paintings, more suitable for the office foyer. One characteristic of My’s paintings is her use of colour, which is profound, making her paintings instantly recognisable. All her artwork is original – there are no multiples, no copies and no prints.

‘I breathe painting; I never cease thinking about it. And when I paint, I never really know what I will paint. I look at the many colours before me. I look at my blank canvas. Then, I try to seek equilibrium…. I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music

.’Quotation by Joan Miro in ‘Close-up’ by John Gruen

‘Our feelings for a work of art is rarely independent of the place it occupies in art history……By the mere fact of its birth every great art modifies what arose before it; after Van Gogh, Rembrandt has never been quite the same as he was after Delacroix.’

Quotation by Andre Malraux in ‘The Voices of Silence’

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