Samantha Greenhill Original Artwork

Painting and animals have been a part of Samantha’s life for as long as she can remember, she is equally passionate about both. As a child she volunteered at local stables just to be close to the horses. “Creativity has always been a form of relaxation and meditation for me, I cannot imagine a life without painting”.

Samantha uses meticulously chosen photographs to produce her highly detailed work and spends many hours searching for the perfect image. Once inspired by a photograph she makes some sketches to confirm her composition ideas before drawing it onto her board. ”It’s hard to put my finger on what inspires me about a particular photograph, usually I just know when I’ve found ‘the one’, it can be a look in the animals eyes, the light, posture or usually a mix of all these, and sometimes it can be a combination of several images”

With her pastel artwork she makes an under painting to get all of the tones and light correct to provide a “road map” from which the many layers of details emerge. Mostly working from dark to light she builds up the layers to create as much depth and realism to the animal’s fur, feathers and hair textures as possible. She is always experimenting with different tools to create more varied mark making and is constantly striving to improve upon her work and the visual and emotional impact that it creates.

All of Samantha’s original pastel artwork is framed using anti-reflective and UV protective ‘Art Glass’ with the frame displayed underneath her biography photograph.

Samantha’s original charcoal collection is framed without glass in a matt black tray frame as seen on this page.

Charcoal is one of the oldest drawing mediums known to man. Cave drawings using it can be found all over the world dating back as far as 28,000 years, showing what a lasting medium it really is!

Samantha has always admired the sensitivity and drama that can be created by a drawing using charcoal and have been inspired by many artists’ work. In her opinion Charcoal paintings have a unique power and presence and so she decided to spend some time really experimenting with the medium and found a way of working directly onto canvas that could be fixed and varnished with UV protection, meaning that the painting did not need framing behind glass. She loved every minute and the results it produced.

Here at Wingates Gallery we are delighted to continue to be Samantha’s exclusive UK gallery and regularly commission her with specific customer requests. Please contact us for more details.