While a student at the Slade School of Fine Art and during an exchange at the Australian National University she set off on her first long journey, overland to Uluru, and so began her fascination for landscape, our place within it, how we experience it and ways in which it can be represented.  She later studied Landscape Architecture, to consider the whole matter from a different viewpoint.

Apart from her photography, Isabel’s artwork spans drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking.  Her Bergscapes, Blobscapes and Linebergs playfully evoke imaginary landscapes, while the Colour(blob) Field Paintings are layered colour patterns reminiscent of various motifs in the natural world.  On an academic level, her Master’s dissertation analysed different ways of drawing a place in order to capture its character, and her graphic studies of people, similar to her People, Places photographic works, also express a moment, a character or a mood. 

Outside her art practice, Isabel is fascinated by other ways we communicate, having worked since 2001 as an English language teacher in Switzerland, Poland and Spain.  She has also studied German Literature, given a lecture about English gardens at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and acted in a Bollywood Film.

Isabel is based in Switzerland and the UK.

 

 

Art and Design Education

 

 

2012-2014

M.A. Landscape Architecture, Writtle College, University of Essex

1994-1998

B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

1996

Exchange – Fine Art Sculpture and Printmaking, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University

 

 

Awards

2014

Landscape Institute Student Travel Award 2014:  Study trip to Japan: The Representation of Vast Landscapes in Small Spaces and the Use of Moss in Japanese gardens

 

 

Publications

2017

Representation of Movement on a Site Over Time (Image), 2014. Published in Cureton, P. 2017, Strategies for Landscape Representation: Digital and Analogue Techniques. Oxon. and New York: Routledge, 79.

2015

Space and Surprises in Kyoto’s Temple Gardens, Feb 2, 2015, Landscape Institute Blog

2015

Moss, Ma and Maples in Autumnal Japan, Jan 26, 2015, Landscape Institute Blog

2015

Conceptual Models (Images), 2015. Published in: Waterman, T., The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture (2nd Edition). London and New York: Bloomsbury, 134-135.

1998

Drawings, Slade Journal, Volume 2

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2013

Snowlines, Writtle College campus gardens

1997

Big Desert Print, Slade Gallery, UCL

 

 

Group Exhibitions

2020

Along the Way: Fotografische Arbeiten, with Olivia Gendolla-Green, 1-8 February, Haus-am-See, Unterägeri

2013

The Dynamic Site: Finsbury Park Futures, Furtherfield Gallery, Finsbury Park, London

2011

Bildzwang bei Sphinx, Schauraum Sphinx, Luzern

2007

Zimmer Frei: Der Bildzwang in der Kornschuette, Kornschuette, Lucerne

1998

Slade School of Fine Art B.A. Degree Show 1998, Slade School, UCL, London

1996

Drawing Exhibition, Foyer Gallery, Canberra School of Art