About
b. 1998
Isobel Scott-Malden lives and works in London, UK.
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She had always wanted to paint but focused on sculpture and other crafts until she studied art history and was inspired to teach herself to paint in oil.
She had her debut sell-out solo show in 2021 and was the winner of the Women in Art Emerson Award for Young Woman Artist (2021) and the Women in Art People's Vote prize (2021).
She featured in the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in 2024. Her painting was the first to sell in the show and was awarded Highly Commended by The Philip de Laszlo Foundation. She was also in The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition in late 2024 and returns to the Mall Galleries again for the 3rd time in one year for the RBA Annual Exhibition in 2025.
She was also longlisted for the international 2023 Jackson's Painting Prize in the top 4% of 11,000+ entries. Her work has featured in group shows in London galleries and further afield, including The Gallery at Green & Stone Summer Show 2024 where her painting was used as the cover image for the whole Exhibition.
Isobel takes inspiration from art history, her surroundings, poetry and her imagination. She tries to create work that is detailed, meaningful, and has a dialogue with the past.
Her paintings tend to cut through to clear and intense realism whilst retaining an other-worldly quality and they often have a sense of precarity or an unconscious feeling to them that has a life of its own beyond the subject. She works instinctively across a wide range of genres - painting exactly what she wants to paint, how she wants to paint it, with a particular focus on the intricacies of light (and the presence, or absence, of a tiger).
She is self-taught and works in oil. Her style is precise and labour-intensive so she takes a long time to consider her compositions and then meticulously realise them. Each painting can take up to three months to complete.
Education ​​
Self-taught
Solo exhibitions
2021 - Solo exhibition at The Greenwich Gallery
Selected exhibitions
2025 - Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2025 at The Mall Galleries - 26th Feb - 8th March
2024 - Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2024 at The Mall Galleries
2024 - The Russell Gallery Winter Show
2024 - The Gallery Holt 'Serendipity' Exhibition
2024 - Byard Art Gallery 'World of Interiors' Exhibition
2024 - The Gallery at Green & Stone Summer Show
2024 - The Russell Gallery Summer Show
2024 - Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2024 at The Mall Galleries
2022 - The Russell Gallery Winter Show
2022 - The Russell Gallery Summer Show
2022 - Women In Art Prize Show
2022 - Goldsmiths University 'Huxi Respiration' Exhibition
2021 - The Russell Gallery Winter Show
2021 - Solo exhibition at The Greenwich Gallery
Prizes & awards
2024 - Highly Commended by The Philip de Laszlo Foundation
2023 - Long-listed for the Jackson's Painting Prize
2021 - Women In Art Emerson Award for Young Woman Artist
2021 - Women In Art People's Vote Prize
Contact
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