ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I’m an abstract artist and designer, using bold, rhythmic forms to create artworks that sit where abstraction meets pattern.

My practice explores repetition and variation, driven by my passion for colour.

My palette is inspired by the artificial brightness of '80s and '90s cartoons and early video games. That saturated intensity, bold, unapologetic, and nostalgic, is filtered through colour theory and visual perception, then realised with carefully chosen paint pigments.

I balance methodical systems with playful experimentation, letting curiosity and instinct guide what takes shape. Whether working in paint or digital form, I create for the joy of making and to see what I can bring into the world. I feel alive when I do this, and I hope that energy and joy can be seen and felt in my work.

ABOUT

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.

SHOWS

2025
THG Open. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

2024
MA Graduate Show. Arts University Plymouth

Wonder. PS1, Arts University Plymouth

2023
Victoria Mardon. Get Lost Gallery, Exeter

THG Open. Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton

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

RWA Open. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

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

2021
Victoria Mardon & Andrew Stonyer. Brownsword Hepworth, London

Spring Show. Brownsword Hepworth, London

2020
A Cabinet of Curiosities. Brownsword Hepworth, London

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

Abstraction Here & Now. Group Exhibition, Exeter

Evolver. Group Exhibition, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton