Artist Bridget Davies

Bridget studied Fashion and Textiles at the University of Leeds. She taught fashion and fashion illustration in Milan and worked in the fashion industry as a designer and embroiderer. When she returned to the UK she returned to her love of painting figures and illustrating fashion.

' I love to paint elegant women in beautiful clothes in glamorous settings. I'm not really inspired by fashion per se but the feel of fashion from the past. The Forties and Fifties in particular have a classic ageless beauty. I am enormously influenced by the elegant and beautiful fashion drawings by illustrators of this period as well as contemporary fashion artists and illustrator's working today.