Beverley Matchette-Downes' current practice is dominated by printmaking which she fell in love with after a Masters' Degree in it in 2010.  She has always been interested in composition and pictorial space.  Her work often involves an element of cropping which perhaps indicates her working method whereby her camera is often her preliminary sketchbook.   She frequently (but not always) uses her own photography from which to draw and paint.  Her work is usually drawn from tangible figurative things in the world around her, however she invariable abstracts them in an attempt to make them visually more interesting and her own. 

Biography and Exhibitions

Beverley Matchette-Downes graduated in 2007 with a BA (Hons) 2:1 in Fine Art specialising in Painting from Buckinghamshire and Chilterns University and then an MA in Printmaking (Distinction) from Buckinghamshire New University in 2010.

She spent 9 years working from Commercial Square Studios in High Wycombe until Council redevelopment forced her and many other artists out.   She now works from new studios set in the beautiful Hambleden Valley alongside 6 other artists at Studio 5, Turville Studios, Turville, Nr Henley on Thames, Oxon RG9 8QL.  More information can be found at the following:  www.turvillestudios.co.uk   www.mdart.co.uk  https://www.instagram.com/beverleyreverie/ https://www.facebook.com/beveleyreverie/

For any further information about her work, prices and availability please contact her directly on email: bamd@mdoil.co.uk or Mobile: 07766 711919

Curriculum Vitae – Beverley Matchette-Downes 

Qualifications

BA Fine Art (Hons) 2007. Buckinghamshire New University

MA Printmaking (Distinction) 2010. Buckinghamshire New University

Upcoming Events

Henley Arts Trail - May 2025

Selected Exhibitions and Events

Artists at Turville Studios Christmas Event 2024

Brighton Art Fair, Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton 2024

Atelier by the Sea Summer Show, Brighton 2024

Oxford Art Weeks at Turville Studios, Turville 2024 

‘Earthworks’ Exhibition, Emerald Gallery, Chalfont St Peter 2023

Windsor Art Fair, Windsor 2023

Oxford Art Weeks at Turville Studios, Turville 2023 

‘Printfest’ Print Fair, Ulverston 2022

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London 2022 

Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London 2022

Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries London 2020 (Virtual show) COVID

Painter Stainers’ Company Exhibition, 2020 (Virtual Show) COVID

Group Exhibition Crypt Gallery, St Ives Cornwall 2019

RA Summer Exhibition, (shortlisted for RA Summer Exhibition) 2019

‘Discerning Eye’ Exhibition Mall Galleries, London 2018

‘Fanfare’ Exhibition, Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury 2016 

Square Umbrella ‘Pop-Up’ Gallery, Marlow High Street (8 weeks) 2016 

RA Summer Exhibition, (shortlisted for RA Summer Exhibition) 2015

‘Creative Connections’ Exhibition – Bucks County Museum 2015

Square Umbrella Pop Up Gallery, Spittal Street, Marlow  (8 weeks) 2014 

‘Flower Power’ Exhibition, Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted 2014

‘A4 Exchange’ Exhibition Angelika Studios High Wycombe 2014

‘20:20 Print Exchange’ South Hill Park Arts Centre 2014

RA Summer Exhibition (shortlisted for RA Summer Exhibition) 2013

‘A Sense of Place’ Exhibition, Henley Fire Station, Henley 2012

‘Bite’ Mall Galleries, London 2011

‘At Play 3’ Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell 2011

MA Printmaking and MA Illustration Degree Show High Wycombe 2010

MA interim Summer Show July Londonprintstudio, London 2009

‘Untitled Art Fair’ Chelsea Old Town Hall, Chelsea, London 2008