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Perdita Sinclair works from her studio in Brighton. She studied Fine Art at Howard Gardens in Cardiff and has gone on to exhibit extensively throughout the U.K. Her work has been influenced by a number of subjects including lepidoptery (the study of butterflies and moths), the aquatic ape hypothesis, Darwinism and the relation of the human to a landscape.

Taking an unorthodox approach Perdita Sinclair paints onto raw canvas. This influences her choice of pallet and establishes the direction to which she paints. Her use of colour, washes and line concentrate on selected areas of the canvas. She has developed a technique of building transparency and texture by using water based washes followed by acrylic glazes which support oil paints.

Alongside her distinctive figurative work she has gained recognition for her portraiture. Perdita’s portraiture has been selected for the BP Portrait Awards at The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Laing Gallery in Newcastle and The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. The National Portrait Gallery has gone on to publish her work and has used her portraiture in a Portrait Gala held at the gallery. Other work has been exhibited in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London.

She was invited by the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution to participate in the year of Darwin with a talk on her work, which was later published. She has also undertaken a residency at the Booth Museum of Natural History in Brighton highlighting recent extinction.