Collection: Vivien Thorogood

Vivien is a self-taught artist living deep in the beautiful South Devon countryside. She takes inspiration for her joyful paintings from the bustling harbours and colourful communities that surround her home, as well as the Naïve artists of her ancestral homeland in Croatia. Working in acrylics, Vivien builds layers of paint straight from the tube and mixes colours on the canvas to intensify the vivid hues of her work. Painting from imagination as much as observation, Vivien's art is filled with details reflecting the simple pleasures and everyday rhythms of life on land and sea.