A registered charity that provides artists studios, exhibition space and public engagement with contemporary art in the heart of East Oxford
About
Pascale Cumberbatch’s work celebrates earthly beauty and resonates with emotion. She shares a reverence for the natural world, conversing with the rich visual poetry of flowers, colour and light.
Painting and photography are central to her practice but the process can also involve drawing, printing, using natural dyes or scanning. She weaves elements together to create images, playing with colours, textures, pattern and light to convey a narrative or feeling. Symbols or motifs frequently appear in the work, these elements sometimes present but barely perceptible or hidden.
Drawn to the imperfect, the wilted bloom or cracked porcelain, she explores the transience and fragility of life, transformation, decay and renewal. A fascination with themes of everyday human existence and culture is reflected in her depiction of commonplace objects of daily life and home, reflecting the values, morals and traces of memory we associate with these things.
Pascale has travelled, lived, studied and worked across many corners of the world, these experiences deeply influencing her work. She studied Anthropology as her first degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She later studied Photography at University of the Arts, London, and completed an MA in Contemporary Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford in 2015. Her practice is based at Magdalen Road Studios and her daily walks through Oxford, from home to the studio, provide space for contemplation and inspiration.