Bridget Davies, is inspired by, and loves to paint the elegant women of the 40's and 50's in beautiful clothes and glamorous settings. She is also influenced by the fashion drawings of illustrators of this period, as well as contemporary fashion artists and illustrators such as Rene Gruau and Andre-Edouard Marty to name but a few, Their playful, flirty and romantic story telling is her inspiration.

She also challenges simple art techniques, and is happy to explore other mediums.  Her investigations and understanding of the products she works with is extremely thorough.  Currently she's playing with the idea that a piece of work can, at first, look like a successful abstract and then slowly it becomes clear that it is a fashion painting.
After studying Fashion and Textiles at Brettton Hall there was a spell of teaching fashion and fashion illustration in Milan and then working in the fashion industry for several years as an embroiderer and fashion designer. Now back in England she's gone back to her first love, painting figures and illustrating fashion.

Bridget is a successful freelance artist working from her studio in West Sussex.  She is a published artist, with greetings cards and framed prints of her work being sold both through online outlets and through stores and shops such as John Lewis and The Shard where examples of my work can currently be seen. In addition her 
Heavy Metal paintings have also been used by the well-known store Anthropologie on a range of desert plates and serving platters, both in Europe and the United States.

The Leopard trimmed hat

   An Acrylic Ink finished with craquelure and gloss varnish, part of the How Ladylike mixed media original artwork range of paintings

Lady with a feathered hat.

         An Acrylic Ink aged with craquelure and finished with a gloss varnish

Waiting again.

      An Acrylic Ink aged with craquelure and finished   with a gloss varnish, part of the How Ladylike range of paintings

 Nude

Nude in music book finished with craquelure

 Big Night Sketch Book

       A concertina book of sketches and ideas for the Big Night Out paintings

 Come on Rover

One of the quirky series of Walking the Dog. Water colour ink on Water colour paper.