I’m an artist from Sheffield, working in Sheffield and North Norfolk.  Sheffield has shaped my family for generations – a history of industry, socialism, protest, creativity, and sanctuary on the edge of the Peak District’s gritstone edges, moorland and rivers.  I’ve drawn and painted for as long as I can remember,  The natural world has always been a fascination for me , and its coexistence and relationship with the city’s people, and the industrial and urban landscape.  

 

I paint a fractured and beautiful world; a contrast of vulnerability with resilience, where we are separate and where we overlap.  The mosaic of life.  

 

Over the last 18 months I have been exploring contemporary art and creativity with Martin Kinnear RCA.  My main influences for recent work have been abstract expressionism, particularly the work of Franz Marc, Keith Vaughan and John Piper’s stained glass. 

 

Self taught, I enjoyed early success as a teenager exhibiting pastel paintings of local scenes which sold at local art society exhibitions.  Alongside work and family in later life I turned to oil painting and larger scale work selling at Thoresby Hall and the Great Sheffield Art Show.

 

My latest work uses oil paint with mixed media, taking inspiration from historical and current family photographs, my father’s industrial sketches, written word and A rapidly changing world.  

 

My ambition is to work alongside others to create an environment which actively engages people and provokes discussion; a vehicle for exploration and exchange of views and ideas.  To use ‘art’ to bring people together. 

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For more information about paintings or current projects, please email me at isabellepound@gmail.com, or follow me on instagram @isabellepoundart