The influence of the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) a philosopher, speaker, and writer at the tender age of twelve had a profound effect on the way I perceived and thought about life. The spiritual and intellectual ethos suffused the school. I became very curious to visit India. In 1979 on a student exchange with the three Krishnamurti foundations in Bangalore, Madras, and Varanasi, I spent ten months teaching English, traveling, and working in Calcutta. In 1993 I returned to India on an Artist’s residency for three months living with twelve Indian Artists in a village outside Calcutta. I worked intensely and produced over 50 works on Indian handmade paper. My work was influenced by a sense of urgency and complete immersion into another culture through which I was able to discover a sense of my true potential.

My oil paintings are inspired by nature, emotions, and memories. They are a language for thinking in paint through an instinctive and energetic powerful love of colour, form and expressive mark-making. The paintings are a reflection of being in the moment, waiting to see what will emerge as each painting works towards capturing a distillation of experience. The images and marks emerge from an “Interior self”. The ceramics studio was next to the painting studio at school. Using clay was encouraged. I became inspired to work with clay at an early age as I could see and feel the excitement that what I made and went into the kiln came out a complete surprise! This intrigued me. I felt compelled to play with forms and to see if the tactile quality of clay could translate into my ideas about making vases using my fingers for marks and the fascination with glaze experimentation for colour spectrums. Ceramics is in the blood! My late father was a sculptor using clay and my mother worked in both earthenware and stoneware creating vessels for the home.

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Born in Yorkshire in 1959, Arabella Ross is a professional British painter, ceramicist and sculptor.
Ross was brought up in a creative family and spent years traveling and living in India where her artistic process has been profoundly shaped by the importance of being connected to a true self.

Her fascination with Nature and its relationship with the human spirit have drawn the artist towards an endless research of the unconscious which is strongly echoed across her artistic practice. Inspired by British and American artists, such as Malcolm Morley, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, the artist’s aim is to create work that draws out a strong emotional, psychological or physical response in the viewer. Her oil paintings document the subconscious mind through instinctual, energetic forms, vivid and powerful brushstrokes. The landscape is always a source of inspiration and at the centre of her artworks.
Ross’s Himalayan and Japanese ceramic sculptures are small worlds that tell stories of wonders and creativity.