About

Woman looking out to sea. Sera James Irvine

Sera James Irvine (b. 1965, Ceunant, Wales) is a contemporary painter based in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

Working primarily with ink, watercolour, charcoal and soft pastel, energetic gestural lines and striking compositions define her visual language. She is best known for her landscape paintings with recurring motifs of trees, skies, and clouds, as well as for contemplative line drawings and monoprints.

Her work is characterised by a limited palette of blues, earth tones, and greens and by an interest in capturing movement and fleeting moments. Through her paintings and drawings, she explores the convergence of medium, gesture, subject, and time, balancing the immediacy of mark making with profound depth of observation. This is evident in her ongoing series of landscapes inspired by her experiences in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Namibia.

Sera James Irvine has exhibited widely across the UK, Ireland, and Germany. Her work is held in numerous private collections in the UK, France and Africa.

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