Bobbye Fermie, A Favourite Time of Mine, 2023
Watercolour and collage, 17 x 20cm (unframed)
Amsterdam-born artist Bobbye Fermie is renowned for her dreamlike works on paper that explore introspective female figures inhabiting imaginary spaces. Inspired by memories and photographs, her work is characterised by a limited palette which creates impact and lends each image a graphic quality.
This new unframed collage and watercolour piece by Bobbye is closely related to the new pair of prints that she has made for the 2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Inspired by a window that the artist saw in a Dutch painting, this composition actually features two windows - one in the forground, intricately collaged, and the second behind, illuminated in watercolor. The viewer’s eye is drawn from one to the other; we almost do not notice the artist’s subject quietly absorbed in her task at hand.
Bobbye studied in the Netherlands and Belgium before moving to London in 2014 to attend the Royal Drawing School. She has undertaken artistic residencies in the UK and Italy and her work has been featured in several publications. She has exhibited widely in the UK and her work is currently held at several collections, including the Morritz-Heyman Collection, The Royal Collection and Soho House. She lives and works in north London.
Watercolour and collage, 17 x 20cm (unframed)
Amsterdam-born artist Bobbye Fermie is renowned for her dreamlike works on paper that explore introspective female figures inhabiting imaginary spaces. Inspired by memories and photographs, her work is characterised by a limited palette which creates impact and lends each image a graphic quality.
This new unframed collage and watercolour piece by Bobbye is closely related to the new pair of prints that she has made for the 2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Inspired by a window that the artist saw in a Dutch painting, this composition actually features two windows - one in the forground, intricately collaged, and the second behind, illuminated in watercolor. The viewer’s eye is drawn from one to the other; we almost do not notice the artist’s subject quietly absorbed in her task at hand.
Bobbye studied in the Netherlands and Belgium before moving to London in 2014 to attend the Royal Drawing School. She has undertaken artistic residencies in the UK and Italy and her work has been featured in several publications. She has exhibited widely in the UK and her work is currently held at several collections, including the Morritz-Heyman Collection, The Royal Collection and Soho House. She lives and works in north London.
Watercolour and collage, 17 x 20cm (unframed)
Amsterdam-born artist Bobbye Fermie is renowned for her dreamlike works on paper that explore introspective female figures inhabiting imaginary spaces. Inspired by memories and photographs, her work is characterised by a limited palette which creates impact and lends each image a graphic quality.
This new unframed collage and watercolour piece by Bobbye is closely related to the new pair of prints that she has made for the 2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Inspired by a window that the artist saw in a Dutch painting, this composition actually features two windows - one in the forground, intricately collaged, and the second behind, illuminated in watercolor. The viewer’s eye is drawn from one to the other; we almost do not notice the artist’s subject quietly absorbed in her task at hand.
Bobbye studied in the Netherlands and Belgium before moving to London in 2014 to attend the Royal Drawing School. She has undertaken artistic residencies in the UK and Italy and her work has been featured in several publications. She has exhibited widely in the UK and her work is currently held at several collections, including the Morritz-Heyman Collection, The Royal Collection and Soho House. She lives and works in north London.
