Isabel's starting point is her fascination with uninhabited environments - ranging from empty rooms to deserts. Her abstract landscapes of hot vibrant colours are created by her unique method of layering shapes and textures, forming mysterious and surreal formations rising up out of the ground, seemingly an amalgamation of the manmade with the organic set against a brilliant blue. The strange biological shapes and the ambiguity of scale and setting allow the viewer to escape to another world.

Her empty rooms are reminiscent of Edward Hopper and strongly influenced by David Lynch, but devoid of human life. The unoccupied chairs appear to be having a conversation of their own. The function of the chair gives it a personality, that becomes more apparent when unoccupied. Having been abandoned by humans, they now have the freedom to become pure objects.

Born in 1978 in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Currently living in London.


Future group shows:

11 Untitled
12th - 17th October 2009
Private view: 14th October
Menier Gallery,
Menier Chocolate Factory,
51 Southwark St.
London SE1 1RU

Postcards from Dystopia
3rd December - 21st December 2009.
Private View 3rd December
Nolias Gallery
60 Great Suffolk Street
London
SE1 0BL

Past Shows:

January 2009 - The Fishmarket Art Fair, Northampton
December 2008 - Secrets Exhibition at The Foundry, London
October 2008 - 11 Untitled at The Troubadour, London
September 2005 - The Others, London


enquiries@isabelhowlett.co.uk