Angela Wakefield would find it impossible to live in a big city - she is a country girl at heart. Angela has become one of Britain's leading contemporary urban landscape artists but she still prefers to work from her studio in the Ribble Valley village of Ribchester.
Although her work has been likened to that of American realist painter Edward Hopper it remains distinctly 'Angela Wakefield' with its combination of strong light and shade and an almost phosphorescent use of colour. She takes us on a journey into the dark recesses of some of the world's biggest cities: by night skyscrapers tower overhead as we walk the neon-lit streets of downtown New York: by day we feel the sweltering heat as the late afternoon sun bleeds into the dusty pavements. In Manchester and London, one can almost smell the damp in the air and hear the sound of screeching car brakes and heavy wet tyres as they splash through the rain-soaked streets of the metropolis.
Angela Wakefield's paintings are in private collections across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and China. She has also provided the dust cover for a new novel in the U.S.
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