Ceri was born in the Cumbrian countryside to Welsh artist/lecturer parents and art has always been intrinsic to her life. Although brought up in this beautiful county, she is drawn to a different world for her subject matter.
She is interested in using image-making to convey a sense of being human in an increasingly man-made world - the way people occupy public spaces; cafes, waiting rooms, ‘non-places’, the non-picturesque – the places people don’t really notice. Ceri works primarily in oils. Pictures evolve from memory, sketches and photographs and the final results are often composites of all those elements and of no particular place.
Sometimes Ceri paints random subjects purely for love of the practice - the application of paint itself and the myriad of layers and textures possible. She is fascinated by the effect of light on surface and how this, in addition to the positioning of objects on the picture plane, can create atmosphere and a feeling of timelessness.
