“Green space and nature is in my blood”, landscape painter Georgie Mason tells The Week Junior. She grew up in Suffolk, England, and now paints in a studio at Stepney City Farm in London, where geese, goats, donkeys and sheep remind her of her childhood.
Mason uses acrylic and oil paints, glue, mud and straw collected from the farm, and cardboard from the bins. She says her approach is “intuitive” (based on her feelings), and she uses “everything from washing-up brushes to old T-shirts, my fingers, sticks, sponges and forks”. As well as taking inspiration from the natural world, Mason turns to her “inner world” to think of things to paint.
Mason also teaches art classes for under-12s. Each class begins “with a wander around the farm, sketching things we…
