Biography
Pippa Blake was born in Portsmouth, England in 1954, and studied Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College of Art, London from 1972 to 1976 gaining BA Honours ( First Class ). In 2005 she graduated from the Visual Arts Programme, West Dean College, Sussex with a Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction).
Blake lives and works on the coast in Hampshire UK.
Blake is represented by the Candida Stevens Gallery www.candidastevens.com. Her work is held in many international collections.
Education
1972-1976 Camberwell School of Art: BA Hons Fine Art Painting (First Class).
2004-2005 West Dean College: Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Art (Distinction)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Connotations: Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK
2022 Undercurrents: Cromwell Place, London & Candida Stevens, Chichester, UK
2020 On the road: Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester:
2017 Quest: Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
2016 Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, The Garden Gallery, Pallant House
2015 Utopia: Dystopia: Embassy Tea Gallery, London & The Auditorium, West Dean College, West Sussex.
2012 Conflicted: Artis Gallery Auckland NZ
2010 Inside/Out: West Dean College, West Sussex
2010 Pippa Blake: Journey: Exhibition supported by Louis Vuitton Auckland, New Zealand
2007 The Wyer Gallery: Battersea, London
2006 Works on Water (with sculptor William Pye): Sussex Barn Gallery, West Sussex
2004 Havant Arts Centre, Hampshire
2002 The Lane Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2002 Havant Arts Centre, Hampshire
2001 Lane Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Group Exhibitions
2026 Papercut, The Place Downstairs, Canonbury, London
2026 Oxmarket 50 Years Anniversary Retrospective: Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester
2025 British Art Fair: Saatchi Gallery , London
2025 Art on a Postcard
2024 Eggshibition: Painted eggs in support of the CFT Nest Theatre
2024 108: Art Hub Studios : Creekside, London
2024 Miniatures for Macmillan: Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
2023 British Art Fair: Saatchi Gallery, London
2023 London Art Fair: Islington, London
2023 British Art Fair: with Candida Stevens Gallery
2022 British Art Fair: with Candida Stevens Gallery
2022 Sussex Landscape Chalk, Wood & Water: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2021 1 Large – 2 Small: Feb/March: Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
2021 Little Landscapes: Nov/Dec: Candida Stevens, Chichester
2021 London Art Fair: digital with Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
2020 Isolated Observations: Candida Stevens, Chichester
2019 Present Day: Candida Stevens, Chichester
2019 Heimweh: Art Space Portsmouth, Hampshire
2019 Island: Candida Stevens, Chichester
2018 There’s no time like the present: Squash Court, Old Portchester, Hampshire
2017 10 West, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2017 Artis, Summer Show: Auckland, NZ
2017 GOOD NATURE: Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
2016 Art on a Postcard: The Hepatitis C Trust, London
2016 Ellipse: Galerie Remise, Beusselstrasse 2, 10553 Berlin
2016 Ellipse: Angelika Studios. High Wycombe
2016 Oxmarket 40 Years Anniversary Retrospective: Chichester
2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London
2014 Et la peinture?: galerie du jour, Paris, France
2014 20 Painters: Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK
2014 Artis Gallery, Auckland New Zealand
2013 Zimmer Stewart, Arundel, West Sussex
2011 Highgate Contemporary, London
2011 Artis, Auckland. NZ
2011 Conversations: Artel: Havant Arts Centre
2010 Stripped Bare: Havant Arts Centre
2009 Chichester Festival
2009 Omega Printmakers, Portsmouth
2008 Havant Museum
2008 Artists from the South: Chichester
2008 Chichester Cathedral 900 Years: Artel
2007 The Ocean Project: ARTEL/NOCS: Bargate
Monument Gallery, Southampton
2006 Resurgence: Langstone Gate: Havant Arts Centre
2005 The Flux Project: West Sussex (with Tim Kent)
2004 Artist’s Harbour Historic Portsmouth Dockyard
2003 Odyssey: Havant Arts Centre
2003 Australasian Exhibition: Beatrice Royal
2003 Works on Paper: Sydney Arts Fair, Australia
2002 Face-It: Otter Gallery, West Sussex
2002 You Are Here: Phoenix Gallery Brighton
2002 Director’s Choice: Havant Arts Centre
2001 Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, Hampshire
2001 Coast: Artsway, Hampshire
2000 Portsmouth Open
1999 L’Artichaut Small Paintings Show: Chichester
1998 Paintings from Poems: St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester
1996 Sussex Open: Brighton
1994 Chichester City of Culture: Exhibition
1993 Sussex Open: Brighton
1976 Stowells Trophy: Royal Academy
1975 Portsmouth Open: Portsmouth
Publications
CFT: Education, 2025
A & I magazine, 2020
Chichester Observer, 2016
Pallant House Gallery Press Release, 2016
Hampshire Life, 2014
Art of War: Jonathan Grant Galleries NZ, 2012
Verve Magazine NZ, 2012
Viva NZ, 2010
Journey: Pippa Blake, Penguin NZ, 2010
Chichester Observer, 2007
NZ Herald, 2004
Kultura, 2004