Yvonne Coughlan is an artist who lives and works in London. She studied sculpture at Chelsea College of Art .
Her studio practice spans painting, constructing, monoprinting, collage and drawing . The process is physical - involving painting, sanding, gouging and peeling and is driven by a search for for tension through colour and texture. She draws inspiration from travel, her immediate surroundings, poetry and music, exploring the dream-like and unresolved aspects of life. Her work seeks emotional resonance through material and colour relationships.
Over time, my work has evolved from sculpture to a more painterly, two-dimensional approach. I construct rather than paint in the traditional sense, layering and stripping back materials to create a visual dialogue. Increasingly drawn to the qualities of paint, I finds the process deeply tied to emotion and memory, often revealing itself in unexpected ways.
Selected group exhibitions
Selected to show with Star Brewery Gallery Artwave Festival Sept 25 ‘As Time Goes By’
The Emotive Power of Colour, Van Der Plas Gallery NYC, Dec 2024
AKA Fine Art Winter Group Exhibition, Cambridge Dec 2024
Winter Boutique, Bobcat Gallery, Putney London Dec 2024
E8 Arts and crafts Trail,Dec 2024 /June 25 Cafe Melo Dalston, London
The Art of Life September 2024, Star Brewery Gallery Lewes
Landscape and Seascapes Open Call March 2024, One Gallery Halifax
January 24 - Print It 2024 @ Aire Place Studios
November 23 - The Spaces In Between - The Gallery Cafe, St Margarets Bethnal Green - A Creative exploration in Health
August 23 -Grow Where You Are Planted St Margarets Gallery Cafe ,Bethnal Creen
July 23 - The Virtual exhibition of prints, printmaking and photographs , Art Gallery SW
2022 - Darkened Landscapes, artsdepot Finchley
2008 - Foreman’s Smokehouse Gallery, Group Show
2001 – 2022 Mixed and solo shows at The Bromley by Bow Centre
1997 – 2004 Hidden Art of Hackney
2001 -nineplusnine The Spitz Gallery Whitechapel
2001 - The Bigger Picture , Vital Arts , Royal London Hospital
2001 - A Cut Edge, Between Family Lines
1995- Commercial Too Whitechapel Open
Publications
Planet Asthma Art & Activity Book 2009 - Bromley by Bow Publishing ISBN 978-0-9542086-4-6