About Penelope and her Paintings
Penny
Penelope Joy Billington was brought up in a residential area of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Born in May of 1985, Penny lived with her parents and two younger sisters. Through her childhood she was always playing with paints and drawing sketches of the countryside in the area.
Penny developed her artistic skills during her 7 years of education at Meole Brace Science College and Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology in her home town of Shrewsbury.
With her new found artistic creativity Penelope is now a regular at the annual Ellesmere Art Festival held in Ellesmere, Shropshire (pictured to the right). Her past few exhibitions have been focused on her abstract acrylic paintings and have been very popular amongst visitors of the festival, offering something fresh from the usual.
At the moment, Penny can be found living in her small home in Wem with her long-term boyfriend. She spends much of her free time creating new artwork for sale and adding to her quickly expanding gallery.
Exhibitions
Penny also has paintings listed on a few artists group websites such as:
Ellesmere Art Festival
In the 2004 Ellesmere Art Festival Penelope was asked to showcase some of her artwork. She attended the Festival and brought along with her 2 paintings to be displayed - Starflower and Boyblue. Penny enjoyed the festival so much that she went back in 2006 and showcased 3 more of her paintings - Purple Haze, African sunrise, Kaleidoscope and Flowerburst (which sold for £20).
eBay.co.uk
In March 2007 Penelope started to put her paintings on eBay.co.uk up for sale. In the first month the following paintings were put up: Blue Noise (sold for £20), Broken Roses, Hallucinate, Pink Weave, Rain, Seabed, Tunnel, Ice Tipped Lava, Kaliedoscope. April 2007, Penelope then showcased African Sunrise, Illusion, Red Embers and Steel Fence.
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Penny's Education
Penelope has been interested in art since her first art lesson at Oxon Primary School, Shrewsbury at the age of 7. Her interest continued into Secondary School when she started studying at Meole Brace Science College. With 5 years of art lessons taught by Mr Ramsdon she completed her Secondary Education with an A grade in GCSE Art.
That same year Penny joined Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology for a 2 year course in Fine Arts. She successfully completed the course in 2002 and was awarded a BTEC National Diploma in Fine Art.
Penny's Experience
With Penelope's history of working with artistic media she has a lot of experience and developed skills.
Penny started her artistic journey as a small child in Primary School. She worked with poster paints and drew pencil sketches at school and in leisure.
When Penelope left her Primary School to continue studying at Meole Brace Science College she worked with many different medias in her art classes. Powder and acrylic paint, clay modeling, pencil, pen, and charcoal sketching, batik, montage, collage, oil pastels, chalk pastels, and still life drawing were all used in her many projects completed. Penny loved making artwork so much that she opted to take her 2 weeks work experience at Parker and Arroll - a textile designers in the Shrewsbury area. Here she focused on pencil and pen still life sketching and silk painting. She spent most of her time there working on a delicate scarf and getting used to producing her artwork with a completely different media.
Straight after Secondary Schooling Penny left for Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology to complete a 2 year course in Fine Art. Here she studied the use of the following in artwork: acrylic, oil and watercolour paints; clay sculpting; photography and film developing, still life sketching; life drawing; montage; collage; cardboard, wood, and plastic model making; art history and computer art using adobe photoshop. In her media studies class she also studied filming . For her final College project Penelope made a big piece of artwork using wood and pvc, that was iluminated by 6 lights from behind.