Dr Angela Summerfield is a contemporary landscape painter and author, based in rural North Gloucestershire. Having grown-up in North Yorkshire, Angela studied Fine Art at the University of Leeds, followed by History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. She has a specialist knowledge of historical and contemporary landscape art practice, with particular research interests in Empathy Aesthetics and the concept of Wonder. She is a member of Tate (BAN), Landscape Group.
Publications include:
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/why-did-gloucestershire-attract-so-many-modern-british-artists, Art UK, Autumn, 2024.
‘Green Truth – the forest as a unique creative space’ in ‘Evolving the Forest’, 2020, ISBN 9780995719637.
‘EMPATHY’, Canwood Gallery, 2018: ISBN 9781527227538
‘Why do artists paint trees?’ in ‘The Arborealists: The Art of the Tree’, Sansom and Company, 2016: ISBN 978-1-908326-86-7
‘ROMA: Emma Stibbon RA’, Rabley Drawing Centre, 2012.