Goats Pen, 1997
Olivia Stanton (b.1949) trained at Byam School of Art (now part of Central Saint Martins), London from 1973-77. Olivia’s work is sophisticated and visually stunning. The authority of Olivia’s work transmits from an astonishingly matt paint surface, the matt surface exudes a calm that draws the viewer in to take a closer look.
Her work is a colour-rich expression of the everyday and what she sees about her - ‘life’, heavily influenced by landscape during her years living in France and more recently about structure and balance. Conscious that she does not want to tell us what to see, she prefers to share what she sees and let the work speak for itself.