Consuelo Child-Villiers White cherry blossom Oil on canvas Signed Consuelo 80 x 80 cms		Consuelo Child-Villiers Pink cherry blossom Oil on canvas Signed Consuelo 73 x 92 cms
Consuelo Child-Villiers Eggs Oil on canvas Signed Consuelo 73 x 54 cms		Consuelo Child-Villiers Pink pearl necklace Oil on canvas Signed Consuelo 65 x 50 cms

A rather eccentric upbringing spent in England, the Channel Isles and at her uncle’s Italian villa, which boasted an extraordinary menagerie including a tiger, puma, deer, wild boar and a wolf, followed by four years’ training at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, including one year under the tutelage of the sculptor Antonio Berti, travels in India, Nepal, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and a period spent in the Caribbean combine to give a fresh and contemporary approach to her timeless subject matter, itself coloured by Consuelo’s exotic Anglo – Irish and Italian – Spanish ancestry.

From acutely observed mythological references, in which luxuriant feminine forms interact with the purity of line and lithe grace of wild animals to mimosa bursting into bloom against an azure sky, all bear the unmistakeable hallmark of Consuelo’s work.

In 1982 she moved to London and studied History of Art, exhibiting regularly in the Capital until she left to spend several years in the West Indies, which provided the source material for her exhibition
‘ The Spanish Main ’. On their return, she and her husband, Peter, moved to the Pyrennees and then, latterly, to Provence, where they now live and work .

1986 – 1990 Group Exhibitions in London

• and the following selected Solo Exhibitions
• 1977 Galleria A per A, Florence, Italy
• 1982 Le Gallais Fine Art, Jersey
• 1987 Guild Gallery, London
• 1989 Crucial Gallery, London
• 1990 190, Queensgate, Restaurateurs Club, London
• 1991 Compass Art, Oxfordshire
• 1993 L’Escargot, Soho, London
• 1995 The Studio, Chelsea, London
• 1997 The Studio, Chelsea, London
• 1999 The Studio, Chelsea, London
• 2000 The Air Gallery, Dover Street, London
• 2004 Château de Seillans, Var, France

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