Avant Gardeners: C&C at the Stables, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Educated at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford Pandora Mond has painted all of her adult life. She lived for many years on Exmoor before returning to her roots in Norfolk. Her inspiration and reference has always been the natural world and even beyond. She works in oil and mixed media on canvas, often on a large scale. Her works present the greatest challenges and seduction; a place of tranquillity and threat, vastness and peace.

Pandora's solitary trees too, possess a powerful physical presence. Not simply because of the sheer size of each canvas and the iconic nature of their presentation, but because their natural surface becomes a vehicle for her exploration of the surface quality of the paint. In this way each image is given character and is brought to life. Each painting amounts to much more than simply the sum of its parts, because Pandora Mond’s response to her subject bestows an expression and energy that exist not because of what she paints, but how.

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