Ella McVeigh’s paintings and drawings are webbed with art history, the role of nature in art-making and the possibilities and meanings of painting today. Starting primarily from found imagery of the natural world, McVeigh explores painting as a mental performance of visual decision-making. Whereby these images from her personal archive, ranging from studio shots of flower arrangements to encyclopedias on minerals and geology, are the trigger of an array of mental connections to other images and experiences.

McVeigh’s purely abstract work is a persisting interrogation of line, colour and form through paintings and drawings that capture in great detail the complexities of looking at images, while also eluding any efforts to be read as stories. She sees her way of painting as a problem-solving process, creating harmony out of chaos while combining natural and artificial structures.

Newchild Gallery

London

Brussels

Art Brussels

Antwerpen

White Cube

Fold Gallery

Unit 1 Gallery

Royal College of Art

Ella Mcveigh

Royal College Of Art

University Of The Arts London, Wimbledon College Of Arts

University Of The Arts London, Central Saint Martin

Tendril III

Trinket

Petrichor

Glint #2

Facet

Blue John

Millefiori

Burr

Prism I