Welcome to my blog!
So I have taken the plunge!
Hi my name is Connie and I am a York based artist, working in pencil, ink, and watercolour, looking at local landscapes and architecture.
After many years drawing and painting, I finally picked up by pencils again in lockdown and since then have been creating art non-stop, selling commissions via word of mouth until now, when I have finally started to put my work out there online…and started this blog!
So what can I tell you about myself? I turned 30 this year, and have lived in York for 12 years, first as an Art History Student, and now as a manager in museum and heritage. I live with my partner – who gave me the push to start putting my work online – and originally come from Driffield in East Yorkshire.
While I am a Yorkshire lass at heart, I also have lots of family in Lincolnshire, and so it is these areas that are the focus for a large portion of my artwork. I love capturing areas that hold personal meaning, to me or those who commission my work (so please feel welcome to reach out to me for works based on any location) as I love how art can help recall personal memories.
For more information, please take a look at my Instagram @connieberridge.art but for now I thought I would leave you with the piece that started it all…
Stuck inside in lockdown, I started sketching local areas from photographs I took on the one half hour walk we were allowed to take each day. This soon turned into a page of sketches which I framed and put on my wall. Cut to a few weeks later and I was on my usual weekly zoom quiz with friends. The round was ‘find something that is…..handmade’. I quickly turned the camera to my artwork and the next day my friend’s brother messaged me to buy it for his partner. That was it…i was off! And long do I hope to continue! 🙂
The first artwork I ever sold, a collection of locations around York in pen and ink (Clockwise from top left – Kings Manor, Millennium Bridge, Clifford’s Tower, York Minster, St Mary’s Abbey Ruins, Lendal Bridge, The Shambles, and Bootham Bar)
