SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, Victoria

1969 - ?

Victoria Alice Sebag-Montefiore was born in London in 1969, the daughter of Nathaniel Charles Sebag-Montefiore (14 December 1938-12 January 2018) and his wife Annabel Victoria née Gosling who married at Chelsea on 25 October 1965. Victoria was educated at Benenden School, Cranbrook, Kent and at Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art 1988-1989 and at the Slade School of Fine Art 1989-1993 for her B.A. degree and has been painting since her late teens. In the early part of her career she painted abstract paintings, inspired by the many skyscrapers going up in Canary Wharf in London. Victoria paints the beauty of the natural world, producing oil paintings saturated in colour and teeming with life, with her love of the work of both Japanese print artists of the early 19th century and the Abstract Expressionists of the 20th century informs her gestural marks, surfaces, and use of colour. She married at Kensington Chelsea on 15 May 1999, James Matthew William Alexander and in 2012, together with her husband and two children, they moved to Suffolk and renovated their farmhouse in Worlingworth and is now inspired by the countryside and beaches of her Suffolk home, finding inspiration from plants and trees to butterflies and open skies. Victoria, who is now based at Aldeburgh in Suffolk, has exhibited widely including solo shows in London at Will's Art Warehouse; Gallery 27, Cork Street, London; The Gallery, 250/340 Kings Road, London and locally at Snape Maltings Galleries with mixed shows at Greenbelt Festival, Deene Park, Corby, Northamptonshire; Battersea Park, London; Mall Galleries, London; Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh and elsewhere.
Website: http://www.victoriasebag.co.uk

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