Our congratulations to Hazel Campbell who has recently been elected a member of the RSW -The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour to be exact.
Hazel Campbell is a true Galloway girl, who grew up on a farm near Parton and has lived and worked in the region for most of her adult life . Whilst still at school, she met Archie Sutter Watt, who would later influence and encourage her work as an artist -an association that has now spanned over 50 years! Hazel trained as primary school teacher , but kept up her interest in painting through attending painting classes over many years. She has developed her own loose style of painting which is instantly recognisable and much in demand. Hazel still enjoys teaching, but now her pupils are mainly adults . She regularly holds workshops at Gracefield , or from her spacious Castle Douglas studio .
‘Encouraging individuality, adventure and most of all fun are my USPs. I have a few lovely people who have come since the start. Each class starts with a demonstration fuelled with huge amounts of adrenaline (what if it doesn’t work?) and much showing off. The end product is usually more interesting than if I was alone.’
Other influences include the work of Anne Redpath, Barbara Rae, Michael Honnor and William Gillies. Hazel’s own painting has developed significantly into broad free style , using watercolour, inks and gouache, oil and pastel with all manner of ways to apply and texturize the surface. She has a loose, bold approach, using the Galloway countryside, lanes and cottages ,and often her own garden, as a stimulus for her landscape paintings. Still life and flowers are also favourite subjects, with a confident approach, too, in colour and shape.
See more of Hazel’s work on here painting-for-pleasure.co.uk
