Boo Mallinson studied Fine Art at The Byam Shaw School of Art and City of Guilds School of Art in London before moving to Dorset. She works in a number of mediums including oil, acrylic, charcoal, ink and pastel.

Lime Tree Gallery has represented Boo since 2017 in both Bristol and Long Melford and at Art Fairs throughout the UK, New York City and Singapore.

Boo’s paintings act as a visual diary and a way of recording her everyday walks and journeys through the landscape. When walking we absorb the sights, sounds and smells and they come together to form a very strong memory of place. Our minds can drift and wander yet we are very much in the present. Memories of a repeated walk along a known pathway, the distant horizon, the dramatic changes of colour and light from one moment to the next, day to day, season to season, these immersive encounters with the natural world form the starting point of Boo’s paintings.

Some paintings remain very close to their origins, hinting at a place visited or remembered. These paintings are often smaller and more gestural, translating an idea quickly and embracing chance and accident. Other paintings evolve slowly and are reworked, building up the surface organically and allowing Boo to translate ambiguous images into new compositions. They are still about a visual encounter with the landscape yet there is a process of simplification, allowing her to explore colour and abstraction and to move intuitively between the real and the imaginary. This ambiguity allows the viewer the freedom to put their own interpretation into the paintings and be reminded of their own experiences of being within the landscape.

Solo Exhibitions

2013 Artwave West, Dorset

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 ‘Sea Breeze & Sirens’, Hatch Gallery, Christchurch
2021 Spring Exhibition, Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
2021 Hampshire Spring Art Fair, Nadia Waterfield Fine Art
2021 ‘Interpretations of Landscape’, Highgate Contemporary, London
2020 Christmas Exhibition, Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
2020 Hampshire Autumn Art Fair, Nadia Waterfield Fine Art
2020 ‘Coast’, Hatch Gallery, Christchurch
2020 ‘Works on Paper’ (online) Highgate Contemporary, London
2019 ‘Winter Treats’ Highgate Contemporary, London
2019 Lime Tree Gallery Summer and Christmas Exhibitions
2018 Lime Tree Summer and Christmas Exhibitions, Bristol
2018 Hatch Gallery, ‘Deep Mid Winter’
2017 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
2017 Hatch Gallery, Christchurch ‘Winter Solace’
2017 Highgate Contemporary Art, Summer show
2017 Bath Contemporary, Featured Artist
2016 Lighthouse Poole ‘The Elements’
2016 Portmanteau Gallery, Bridport
2016 Highgate Contemporary Art, Three Person Show and Winter Show
2016 Hatch Gallery, Christchurch, ‘Out of the Dark’
2015 Highgate Contemporary, Christmas show
2015 Bath Contemporary ‘Works on Paper’
2015 Highgate Contemporary Spring show
2014 Bath Contemporary, ‘Approaching Abstraction’
2014 Sladers Yard, Dorset, ‘Radiance’
2014 Highgate Contemporary, London ‘Land, Sea, Sky’
2014 Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham
2013 Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham
2013 Bath Contemporary
2012 Highgate Contemporary, ‘Wessex Landscapes’
2012 Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham
2012 Artwave West, Dorset
2012 Bath Contemporary, Summer Exhibition
2011 Artwave West, Dorset
2011 Bath Contemporary, Christmas Exhibition
2011 Highgate Contemporary, London
2011 Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham
2010 Artwave West Gallery, Dorset