I work in a variety of media, mainly oil and acrylic and recently I've been working with lightfast inks on thick watercolour paper. I enjoy the sumptuous richness and immediacy of inks and the unpredictability, clumsy innocence and surprising truth of a line drawn quickly with a twig dipped in ink.
My work varies from abstract and semi abstract to more directly observed response. I am inspired by the rugged, dramatic coastline of west Cornwall, transformed by ever changing skies. At other times I am drawn to intimate meditations on the individual character and animation of groupings of flowers and objects.
After twenty five years teaching painting, printmaking and history of art in various schools in Hertfordshire including The Broxbourne School and Haileybury College, Edwina Broadbent moved to Cornwall in 2002. She had personal and family connections here and fell in love with the wild, elemental beauty of the land and sea. A place to nurture and inspire her desire to paint.
Her early childhood was spent in South America. She trained at Harrow School of Art and Middlesex Polytechnic. She has also studied with Robin Child at The Lydgate Art Research Centre.
