Saskia Berkin is a figurative oil painter working between London and her native town Beverley, East Yorkshire.
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Her practise focuses on the principle that good drawing is the basis of good painting and that colour should be used to enhance the organisation and definition of observed space and form.
Having completed a degree in Biochemistry before training as a painter, she is particularly interested in visual perception: understanding the illusions created in our brain when painting from life, and the resulting issues surrounding their representation in painting. These fluctuations and uncertainties of perception are as central to her work as the physical subjects themselves.
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Exhibitions
2025
Group Show, Beverley Treasure House, Beverley
Beverley Open Studios
2024
Resident Artist Show, Jigsaw, Beverley
Open Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Summer Exhibition, Solo Show, Gallery 21, Beverley
Group Show, Burford Garden Co. Gallery, Oxford
2023
Beverley Open Studios
Springtime, Solo Show, Gallery 21, Beverley
Group Show, East Riding Theatre, Beverley
Spring Eclectic, Group Show, Blue Tree Gallery, York
Group Show, Burford Garden Co. Gallery, Oxford
2022
Beverley Open Studios
2021
The Start of Something, Solo Show, Gallery 21, Beverley
Open Exhibition, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Heatherleys School of Art Diploma Show, London​
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