About

Abigail’s interest in representational art arises from a desire to understand visual phenomena and her responses to them. She also explores symbolism and our associations to objects, how people naturally project personalities onto objects and build up stories around them. She is interested in our filtering methods and the imaginative play through which we process the confusion of reality, particularly in childhood. Abigail uses traditional methods and works from life whenever possible.

She believes that, in both maths and art, the most beautiful results are derived from reality, and that it’s necessary to understand the visual laws to break them well.

For Abigail, maths and art are not dissimilar in motivation or even in approach. They are both intensely creative pursuits which involve breaking down reality or the human experience through abstraction and simplification to find some fundamental truth.

Her mathematical background gives her a high regard for technical skill and she tries to approach any problem in art with the same combination of intuition, analysis and perseverance that she would approach a mathematical problem.