About Candida Slater

I am an artist working in paint, collage and print. I bring to all these different fields the same artist’s eye. I have a studio in Wimbledon Art Studios.

The underlying theme of my work is the fragile balance between chaos and order and the ephemeral and subjective nature of reality. This is the source of energy in my abstract paintings and of humour, social comment and fluid states in my prints.

I paint monochromes, using subtle shades of blue, black, cream and ochre to create textures, shapes and balances. I also love the emotional power of deep, saturated colours and the fizzy electric glitter of cities at night. I am particularly influenced by Constable, Turner, the Abstract Expressionists and the Colour Field artists, but I have loved art all my life, so inspiration comes from a wide experience. I sell my paintings online through Saatchi Art, direct from my studio and at the Wimbledon Art Fair. My fine art prints are available from my website.

I currently have two series of prints:

1.        Reasons to be Happy, gently satirical works in which I use traditional art to comment on the modern world. Inspired by Matisse and Banksy, for these works my scissors are my paintbrush, and I use cut and found images to create unique works of art. I don’t use AI to create them and I never use artists whose work is still in copyright. All artists borrow and update themes, stories and memes for their own times. That is the essence of the creative process from the Renaissance to Andy Warhol. For most artists now, source material comes via the Internet and social media - it is the air we breathe - and my logo of the artist with an iPhone in one hand and a paintbrush in the other symbolises our ambivalent relationship with it. It is the source of the satire in this series of images.

2.       Wearable art - organic cotton bags based on my designs under the label Quotidian Art and Design.