Auriol Innes
I graduated from Durham University in 1982 with a degree in English Literature and Language. My early career was in publishing, followed by a period of training and self-employment as a textile designer and printer.
My journey as a painter began at a Life Drawing evening class in Peckham in 1987, taught by Frances and Sargy Mann. They imbued in me such a powerful sense of curiosity about the process of looking, drawing and finding a truthful visual language, that I am still firmly a traveller along that road. I was also fortunate in meeting Susannah Fiennes and her contemporaries who had studied with Euan Uglow at the Slade School of Art. With their encouragement I dedicated myself to painting; to quote Sargy Mann, from a conversation between us which proved influential... ’At the end of the day, every painter must go out into the wilderness and paint and I think you are ready for that…’
I have been exhibiting my work regularly since 1992. I currently exhibit with The Piers Feetham Gallery in London as well as taking part in regional exhibitions.
COMMISSIONS
I occasionally take on landscape or narrative landscape commissions and really enjoy the process
This project was in homage to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s ‘Four times of the Day’, painted on canvas and affixed to these panelled doors in a dining room.
The Yellow House, Oreshak. One of a group of paintings commissioned by Sir Richard Stagg KCMG of the Bulgarian landscape and rural villages, during his tenure as HM Ambassador to Bulgaria.
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Online Spring Show - Piers Feetham Gallery
Animated by the Same Spirit - Auriol Innes & Jocelyn Magnus, Piers Feetham Gallery
Norwich Castle Open Art Show - Inheritance
Group Eight: Eight by Eight - Fairhurst Gallery Norwich
Auriol Innes - Piers Feetham Gallery, London
Cley 16 Contemporary Art - In Norfolk Now
Remembrance - Gospel Oak
Group Eight - Aldeburgh Literary Festival - Festival Art Show
Auriol Innes - Piers Feetham Gallery, London
Maggie’s Spring Show - Cheltenham
Inspirations: New Art from East Anglia - Norwich
Art for Freedom - London
Group Eight Summer Show
Art in the Barn - Sudbury, Suffolk
Group Eight: Eight Impressions of East Anglia - London
Group Eight + Friends - Norfolk
Tabernacle Hall Group Show
Memories - Ludlow, Shropshire
Artists Collective - Isle of Colonsay - Images From an Island
Auriol Innes - Cadogan Contemporary
Auriol Innes & Charles MacCarthy - Cadogan Contemporary
RA Summer Exhibition