Isabella Abbott is a London-based multidisciplinary artist. In 2025, she graduated with a Fine Art degree from Newcastle University. She has contributed to exhibitions at The Long Gallery, and the gallery space Jesmond Dene Basement, Newcastle, and most recently the Norman Rea Gallery in York. Working across painting (acrylic and oil), digital art, illustration, printmaking and textiles she uses allegory, abstraction, colour and spatial design to explore human experience, identity and heritage. In 2021, she won two awards in the Collex Art International Competition for ‘Big Ideas/Small Works,’ selling three of her winning lino prints. Isabella’s work was also featured in The Horizon Magazine Issue 3.
I create multidisciplinary work that explores the human form and condition through expressionism and spatial abstraction. I work primarily across painting in acrylic and oil, digital art and printmaking focusing on creating a sense of urgency through chromatic aggression and dynamic mark-making. Captivated by the sincerity of the subconscious and the tension between introspection and observation, I start with a fragment of an idea - a part of a dream, a story, a composition that has pinged into my head - and work intuitively through different mediums, zooming in and out of what emerges, developing its elements, until the concept fully materialises in the medium that articulates it best.
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Isabella Abbott is a London-based multidisciplinary artist. In 2025, she graduated with a Fine Art degree from Newcastle University. She has contributed to exhibitions at The Long Gallery, and the gallery space Jesmond Dene Basement, Newcastle, and most recently the Norman Rea Gallery in York. Working across painting (acrylic and oil), digital art, illustration, printmaking and textiles she uses allegory, abstraction, colour and spatial design to explore human experience, identity and heritage. In 2021, she won two awards in the Collex Art International Competition for ‘Big Ideas/Small Works,’ selling three of her winning lino prints. Isabella’s work was also featured in The Horizon Magazine Issue 3.
I create multidisciplinary work that explores the human form and condition through expressionism and spatial abstraction. I work primarily across painting in acrylic and oil, digital art and printmaking focusing on creating a sense of urgency through chromatic aggression and dynamic mark-making. Captivated by the sincerity of the subconscious and the tension between introspection and observation, I start with a fragment of an idea - a part of a dream, a story, a composition that has pinged into my head - and work intuitively through different mediums, zooming in and out of what emerges, developing its elements, until the concept fully materialises in the medium that articulates it best.
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