Her studio is housed in their home, designed by her architect husband, near the coast in West Penwith. It is the most wonderful contemporary light filled space, predominantly white with shocks of primary colours, the contrast exaggerated by the bright light flooding in through vast sheet windows.
“My work is generally described as abstract, although I would describe my paintings as autobiographical deconstructions and reconstructions of life. These ideas appear on the canvas surface often as an abstract gestural web, occasionally tangled, occasionally bold and resolved. An iconic form is liberated from a void into being.” Dubrey
Henrietta Dubrey was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex in 1966, and attended West Sussex College of Art and Design, and then the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. She graduated with honours from Wimbledon School of Art in 1989 and gained her diploma at the Royal Academy Schools in 1992.
Henrietta has regular one man shows at Edgar Modern in Bath, and exhibits with Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, and The Belgrave Gallery, St Ives. She has shown regularly in the Summer Show at The Royal Academy. Henrietta’s work is represented in many collections including that of De Beers and the Twofour Group. Her work is mentioned in several publications amongst them The Guardian, Peter Davies book ‘St Ives 1975 – 2005 An Art Colony in Transition.