Fern Acheson (b. 2000)

Fern is in her final year studying Architecture at The University of Cambridge. Outside of her studies, she has developed a fine skill for painting in gouache and watercolour. She has worked extensively in gouache and achieves particularly striking effects. The medium dominates her canvases; the opacity of gouache allows her to capture detail with meticulous precision and intensity. 

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Inspired by the energy of everyday life in public spaces such as beaches and parks, Fern’s paintings make visible the positive and negative spaces made by the moving body. Her work embodies these movements and their nuances as they form a narrative of the endlessly changing interaction between people, time, and space. 

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Exhibitions and Commissions

• 2021, The Good Taste Debate, Cambridge Union Art Exhibition

• 2021, The Cambridge Review of Books, Illustrator

• 2021, Eliot's Face, Jesus College Arts Magazine, Illustrator

• 2020, John Hughes Art Festival, Five exhibited works

• 2020, 'Love and Connection in Isolation', Poster project, Exhibited print

• 2020, Painting Commissions (12 completed paintings over 3 months during the summer)