Venetia Syms (b.1990)

Venetia Syms (b.1990)

Lilies, Chrysanthemums and Tuberoses

Signed verso

Oil on canvas

100cm x 100cm

Framed

Venetia graduated from the Hatherley's School of Fine Art with a diploma in Portraiture in 2014. Prior to this she studied traditional skills for a year at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence and subsequently attended the University College Falmouth where she studied drawing. Her paintings have been shown at a number of exhibitions in the UK, Holland and Zimbabwe since graduating and she appeared as a contestant on the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the year 2015 program. Painting landscapes in Zimbabwe involved holding a solo show in Harare, which featured her 'Balancing Rock' series in 2016. Venetia won the Bath and West Art Scholarship for which she exhibited her work on the Brecon Beacons in 2017/2018. Venetia had her own gallery space at Affordable art Fair Amsterdam 2019.

Venetia currently paints both in London and Dorset, her current floral painting will be exhibited at RHS Chelsea flower show in May 2021.