Delia Cardnell
Delia Cardnell (born 1974 in Camden, London) is a British painter. She was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (2000) and voted to serve on the council (2001-2005). She contributes to The Artist magazine.
Cardnell mainly paints rich textured semi-abstract landscapes and detailed still life. She paints wild flowers and exotic foreign plants, incorporating paintings within her paintings, views through windows and a variety of furniture. Details often relate or are deliberately repeated.
Her younger sister is Olivia Cardnell, an abstract and semi-abstract painter.
Exhibitions
- Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
- Royal Watercolour Society
- Royal Society of British Artists
- New English Art Club
- South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts
- Society of Women Artists
- The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
- An RP exhibition of selected paintings held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Awards
- June Stokes-Roberts Bursary by the Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers (1995)
- The RI Winsor & Newton Young Artist first prize winner(1999)
- Winner of the Laing Art Competition (1999)
- Frank Herring Award for still life (2000)