20/09/2026
Maker Spotlight Sophie Rees Studio
Sophie is the founder of The Bristol Artisan but also an artist selling original oil paintings and also reproduction cards and prints at The Bristol Artisan. Sophie studied fine art painting in Bath and Brighton and spent many years exhibiting and curating in London before moving to Bristol in 2016. Central to the work is her passion for botanicals, using the contents of her garden as inspiration for the paintings. Whilst these flowers are the starting point for paintings, they are not portraits of bouquets. They are compositions built from memory, observation and imagination. Saturated backgrounds of crimson, chartreuse, lavender and deep umber create emotional atmospheres rather than realistic settings. The vase provides a quiet anchor while the flowers expand beyond it, reaching towards the edges of the paper with a spontaneous energy. Patterned ceramics, decorative surfaces and flattened perspectives draw as much from textile design, folk traditions and modern painting as they do from historical still life.
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Sophie’s original paintings are available to purchase online or in store.
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