Peggy Cozzi

Hometown: Dorchester

Based in: Dorset

Peggy Cozzi was born in Nassau , Bahamas .
Her family then relocated to the UK where she grew up .
She studied Fine Art , painting at Portsmouth Polytechnic and completed a Fine Art MA at the Arts University Bournemouth in 2014.
Recent selected exhibitions include : the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020 and 2017 , Neo Print prize 2016 , the London Group Open 2017 and The Masters mono print exhibition at Bankside Gallery . She has undertaken several solo and collaborative exhibitions, residencies and curating projects in the UK . Her work is held in private and corporate collections in UK , Europe , USA , Australia and Asia .
Paintings evolve from an experimental engagement with process and materials ; the physical instability of paint and pigment is used to invoke both impermanence and resistance . Combining both improvisational and premeditated approaches results in certain material and perceptual tensions , implying a sense of space as both a physical and psychological domain .

Peggy Cozzi In The Studio

I am interested in how the medium of paint can evoke imaginative responses and psychological states ; I follow a journey with the painting to a point where colour and mark trigger emotive associations , where the paint appears at once tactile and concrete yet simultaneously having the potential for illusion and the capacity to draw on the unconscious .