Pippa Blake was born in Portsmouth, England, and studied Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College of Art, London from 1972 to 1976 gaining BA Hons ( First Class ). During that time she exhibited in the Stowells Trophy, R.A. In 2005 she graduated from the Visual Arts Programme, West Dean College, Sussex with a Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction).

She is currently represented in the UK by Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex.

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)

solo exhibitions

2022 Undercurrents : Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester : 26 October – 5 November
2022 Undercurrents : 18 Cromwell Place, London with Candida Stevens Gallery : 18 – 23 October
2022 British Art Fair : with Candida Stevens Gallery : 29 September – 3 October
2020 On the Road : Candida Stevens Gallery
2017 QUEST : Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester : May 26 – June 20
2016 Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2015 Utopia: Dystopia, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2015 Utopia: Dystopia, West Dean College, Sussex
2012 Artis Gallery, Auckland New Zealand
2010 Inside/Out: The work of Pippa Blake. West Dean College
2010 Pippa Blake: Journey. Exhibition supported by Louis Vuitton, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Voyage. (with photographer Kos) Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Sussex, UK
2007 The Wyer Gallery, Battersea, London, UK
2006 Works on Water. (with sculptor William Pye) Sussex Barn Gallery, West Sussex, UK
2004 Havant Arts Centre, Hampshire, UK
2002 Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002 Havant Arts Centre, Hampshire, UK
2001 Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1997 Deborah Bates Gallery, London, UK
1995 Herringbroom Studio, Sussex, UK

group exhibitions

2024 108 : Art Hub Studios : Creekside, London
2024 Miniatures for Macmillan : Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester
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 : November/December : 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 : March 2 – March 28
2017 Artis, Summer Show , Auckland, NZ
2017 GOOD NATURE : Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester : September
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
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
Beatrice Royal ‘Australasian Exhibition’
‘Works on Paper’ Sydney Arts Fair, Australia
2002 Face-It’, Otter Gallery, West Sussex
You Are Here’ Phoenix Gallery Brighton
Director’s Choice, Havant Arts Centre
2001 Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, Hampshire
‘Coast’, Artsway, Hampshire
2000 Portsmouth Open
1999 L’Artichaut Small Paintings Show, Chichester
1998 St Richard’s Hospital ‘Paintings from Poems’, Chichester
1996 Sussex Open, Brighton
1994 Chichester ‘City of Culture’ Exhibition
1993 Sussex Open, Brighton
1976 Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy
1975 Portsmouth Open