Sophie Aston

Who is Sophie Aston?

Sophie Aston is a British painter, noted for her landscapes. She was born in East Molesey, south-west London. She took her Foundation Diploma in 1990-91 at Wimbledon School of Art before taking her BA Hons in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1991-95. She co-founded a gallery in Glasgow before studying for her MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art from 1997-98. Of her work at the John Moores 23 Exhibition, the critic John Carey said on Newsnight Review, "It was just on the edge of realism. Extraordinarily evocative painting." Regarding her work and that of two other exhibiting painters, he said, "I would have gone to Liverpool for any one of those three." She currently teaches on the BA in Fine Art at Brighton University and at the Mary Ward Centre.