About Victoria Mardon - British Abstract Artist

Victoria Mardon painting in her studio, surrounded by large geometric abstract artworks in bold colours and intricate patterns.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I’m an abstract artist and designer drawn to bold colour and pattern. Working across both digital and traditional painting, I create metamorphosing, playful patterns — what I call “poetic visual puzzles” — where colours shift and transform across the surface.

Whether painted by hand or designed as giclée prints, my contemporary abstract art is rooted in joy, curiosity, and the pleasure of making. Each piece is designed to energise and uplift, bringing bold, joyful bursts of colour and pattern into your space.

ABOUT VICTORIA

Victoria Mardon (b. 1978, Maidstone, Kent) is a British abstract artist and designer based in Exeter, Devon. She earned her MA in Painting with distinction from Arts University Plymouth in 2024, following a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration from Bath Spa University in 2000.

Recognised as an artist to watch, Victoria received the Dean’s Award at her graduate show. Her work has been exhibited widely across the South West and beyond, including the Royal West of England Academy, Brownsword Hepworth Gallery, and Thelma Hulbert Gallery.

Outside the studio, she finds creative clarity while running or walking on Dartmoor or along the South West Coast Path, letting the landscape reset her senses.

EDUCATION

2024 MA Painting with Distinction, Arts University Plymouth

2018-20 Patrick Jones's Abstract Art Group, Exeter

2009 Patrick Jones’s Abstract Art Group, Exeter

2001 A Level Fine Art, Exeter College

2000 BA (Hons) Graphic Design/Illustration, Bath Spa University

SHOWS

2025 'THG Open'. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

2024 'MA Graduate Show'. Arts University Plymouth

2024 'Wonder'. PS1, Arts University Plymouth

2023 'Victoria Mardon'. Get Lost Gallery, Exeter

2023 'THG Open'. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

2022 'Art on a Postcard'. The Other Art Fair, London

2022 'RWA Open'. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2022 'Winter Open'. Sou'-Sou'-West Gallery. Symondsbury Estate

2021 'Victoria Mardon & Andrew Stonyer'. Brownsword Hepworth, London

2021 'Spring Show'. Brownsword Hepworth, London

2020 'A Cabinet of Curiosities'. Brownsword Hepworth, London

2019 Selected for 'RWA Open'. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2019 'Abstraction Here & Now'. Group Exhibition, Exeter

2019 'Evolver'. Group Exhibition, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

AWARDS/COMMENDATIONS

2024 Dean's Award, Arts University Plymouth

2022 Longlisted for Jackson's Art Prize

2020 Longlisted for Jackson's Art Prize