Heloise Toop | The Work
Statement
Heloise Toop is a portrait painter, based in Cambridge. She works mainly in Acrylic or Oil paint. Passionate about portraiture, she studied 'Portraiture and History of Art' at The Heatherleys School of Fine Art in Chelsea, 2008. She went on to win both the annual school prize, and the public vote for best painting in the Outsider Arts Exhibition, Cambridge. She was also exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London, whilst still a sixth form student and has exhibited in various shows around Cambridge and London . Heloise has carried out many successful commissions of children, adults and professionals including the television personality Brian Belo.
“I see beauty in every face. Skin and eyes rich with colour and line have drawn me in every day since I was sixteen, when I realised that portraiture was the only path I would be truly happy following.”
The aim is to portray people as she sees people: beautiful, dignified and enchanting. Enjoying the process of taking a composition from idea to canvas through the medium of paint, and she believes very deeply in keeping a traditional skill and practice alive.
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EXHIBITIONS
Impingtons Annual Exhibition, and held a portraiture class at the college. February 2012
Solo exhibition, Makers Gallery, Cambridge 2011
Cambridge Open Studios, 2011
Dazed and Refused, London, 2011
Charity Raffle, Trinity Trust, Trinity College Cambridge, 2010
Cambridge Open Studios, 2010
Cambridge Open Studios, 2009
CAM MIND Charity exhibition, Cambridge 2008
Solo exhibition, Cambridge Central Library, December 2005
Artse art group in Giulio, Cambridge, December 2004
The Mall Galleries, June 2004
ART FAIRS
The New Artist Fair in Islington, London, February 2012
The Other Art Fair, Southbank, London, 2011
PRESS
Style Magazine 2012
Cambridge Explorer 2011 and 2012
Cambridge First 2011 and 2012
The Independent on Sunday (Front page) 2011
The Guardian 2011
Cambridge Evening News 2004
Daily Mail 2004
COMMISSIONS
Made a cameo painting in 'Beardymans' music video, 2011.
Professor Michael Green - Lucasian Professor of DAMTP, Cambridge
Brian Belo
Jan Uddin, portrait, 2010
Murals for offices in Cambridge, 2006