ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I’m an artist and designer drawn to bold colour and pattern. Using a mix of 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 crafted as a digital print, my work 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 Mardon b. 1978 Maidstone, Kent, is an emerging abstract artist and designer living and working 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, she received the Dean’s Award during her MA studies for her outstanding work¹ in the MA Graduate 2024 show.
Victoria blends digital and traditional techniques to explore bold colour and pattern in her work. Outside the studio, running and walking Dartmoor or the South West Coast Path helps clear her mind, creating space for creativity.
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
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
¹ Arts University Plymouth, “In Pictures: MA Graduate Show 2024,” https://www.aup.ac.uk/posts/in-pictures-ma-graduate-show-2024 (accessed June 6, 2025)