Peisley Memoir
I attended the Graphics Narrative Course on line with Dr. Sarah Lightman in 2022 at The Royal Drawing School. I leant that zines have been used to tell one’s story
Peisley’s work is intense, highly charged with an emotional content that relates to the everyday drama of existing.
An experienced British Artist, she qualified with a BA(hons) in Fine Art at Bath Academy 1988, MA at City Of Birmingham Polytechnic 1989 and MA in Art Psychotherapy in 2006 at Hertfordshire University.
Following a rigorous training in drawing and a lively discourse at Bath Academy, she positions herself alongside contemporary Women Artists, exploring themes of intimacy, storytelling, identity, vulnerability and shame. What it is to be human…passionate, poetic and wanting to attach to others Peisley pulls the viewer into personal dialogue. Through imagery and form her work cuts to a symbolic resonance that hits the back of the psyche to cause a sometimes awkward acknowledgement about oneself. Through a relentless process of stripping artifice from her own ordinary reality, she feels that she captures emotion that couldn’t be constellated in anyway but poetry or art. A woman wanting to make sense of the existential loneliness we find ourselves in, wanting to make sincere relational connections and speak compassionately from lived experience.

I attended the Graphics Narrative Course on line with Dr. Sarah Lightman in 2022 at The Royal Drawing School. I leant that zines have been used to tell one’s story
Beautiful sensual ceramic objects that combine the influence of oriental erotic art with the artists personal narrative. There is a conscious assertion in the work as a women artist and
Peisley’s paintings invite the viewer to engage with the dialogue she has between her memory of self and others. There is an abstracted sense of self here which she is
To paint outside plein air I need to feel secure. In the UK I experience bouts of what I decided to call ‘existential loneliness’. The outside world can feel like
Continuing my adventures into carving I have been working on a piece of limestone, blessed at Canterbury Cathedral with the sculptor Donna Fleming at her studio in Ramsgate. The piece
I’m not a natural printer. I’ve been lucky enough to try etching, silkscreen, lithography, mono-printing and now Riso printing. Thinking in terms of layers blows my mind. I find myself