Wendy Farrow

Wendy Farrow

award-winning mixed media imaging artistLondon, United Kingdom
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Wendy Farrow

Wendy Farrow

award-winning mixed media imaging artistLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Wendy Farrow was born in England in 1962. Her family emigrated to Canada in 1966. She grew up surrounded by theatre and classical ballet. This shaped her perception of the world and instilled in her a life long love of dance. Wendy has been exploring the possibilities in photography and image-making of all forms for over 40 years. As a child she was intrigued by her father's darkroom and so she learned to print and to develop film at the age of 9. The desire to create with the camera took hold. At age 12 she was working with semi-precious stones and running a small jewellery-making business. In her mid teens she was learning to paint in oils and continuing with her photography studies. She had great success in school in academic subjects, particularly mathematics, but her heart led her into the arts upon graduation. In 1992 at the age of 30, Wendy moved to Vancouver and worked in various aspects of the professional photography industry. Three years later the digital revolution began and luckily the Vancouver Film School was the best place to acquire an education in all things digital, from animation to programming to video and music production. She graduated with an Award of Excellence, and was a teacher and curator at the school before moving into web development. For 6 years she worked as a freelance programmer and developer, and then at age 40 decided it was time to focus on her creative passions. She moved to Paris in 2002 to gather images and inspiration. It was there, after visiting the Rodin Museum, that she began experimenting with sculpture. This lead down a path of creating mixed-media photo-based images incorporating her sculptures and her paintings. Wendy's full-time art career began in Toronto in 2004. By 2007, Paris was tugging at her heart again and she spent another year there absorbing the art and architecture and adding to her library. In 2008 she returned to Canada for personal and health reasons, taking a few years to recover but all the while continuing with her art. It was due to the illness that she returned to ballet, to strengthen her muscles and build physical confidence, and to finally, at age 50, achieve a life-long goal of dancing en pointe. By 2014 she was ready to return to Europe. This time she decided to explore London. She continues to live and work there. Almost 45 years on from her first days in the darkroom, Wendy is still pursuing all of her early passions and continually experimenting with ways of bringing them together. Her work has won several international awards including Prix de la Photographie Paris and The International Photography Awards (The Lucies). Her images hang in private collections around the world.
Projects
  • Logo Design (packaging, clothing label and promotional items)
    Logo Design (packaging, clothing label and promotional items)A few years back I was researching circular designs for some of my jewellery pieces and ended up looking at antique buttons. I wasn't looking for letters but came across the F button shown below and was so taken with it that I knew I would use it as a logo somewhere down the line. There were 3 in total, antiques, brass, made in England... except that I had to have them shipped over from Canada - London, Ontario to be exact - Wortley Village, London Ontario to be more exact - the very neighb
  • Forging
    ForgingAtomic or galactic scale, it's all the same. Forces of change are at work. Turbulence and chaos as natural states. Whether they are emotional energies within us or universal energies acting on each other, we can't waste our lives in futile resistance to change. Embrace it. Welcome it. Chase it if you dare. Allowing the process. Trust your resilience and your ability to adapt. This body of work comprises 21 images, created using oil paint only. Prints of 100 cm square in a limited edition of
  • The British Garden (exhibited at Royal Horticultural Society)
    The British Garden (exhibited at Royal Horticultural Society)The British Garden series of images (19 in total) was created using my floral photography and painted textures. The scenes explore our appreciation of nature in both a brief moment of pause and recognition, and over a lifetime... our own and that of the flower itself. The textures in these images are meant to convey both the transmutation of the flower as it moves through full bloom into decline and beyond, and the emotional energy we experience as we connect with its beauty at all stages, throu
Work history
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    ArtistWendy Farrow (Artist)
    London, United KingdomFreelance
Skills
  • Photography
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Photoshop
  • Ability to Communicate Well Both Orally and with Writing
  • Highly Organised
  • Design
Education
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    Advanced Digital MediaVancouver Film School
     - Vancouver, Canada
    Digital Multimedia Programme covering programming, animation, video, audio, image editing - graduated with an Award of Excellence (93%) and was invited to teach prior to graduating. I taught there part time and was the school's curator and public presenter. I left to work in the multimedia industry.