Bio
Aisha Bridgman is best known for her abstract paintings of imagined places. Originally from Portsmouth, she currently lives and works in Surrey, UK.

A few years ago, Aisha reignited her painting career and in 2023, she completed a year of mentoring from Turps Art School.

Recent exhibitions include An Exhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas at White Conduit Projects, Natasha O'Kane Sussex Contemporary in Lewes, The Soho Open at GPS Gallery, ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, Works on Paper 5 at Blue Shop Gallery, Studio Cennen in Wales, The Lido Stores in Margate and through Art & People at Hollywood Road Gallery in London, where her paintings sold out. Her paintings and works on paper, have been secured in numerous private collections within the UK, Europe, Asia and the US.

Artist Statement
I make paintings about the human condition, hidden experiences. The works oscillate between non-representational, imagined landscapes and figurative abstraction. Beginning with a coloured ground and contrasting lines of ink, imagery emerge, as emotional responses to personal experience, memory or place arise. My current series of moon soaked paintings, lean toward nocturnal scenes, offering stillness, introspection and a deep emotive connection. Solitary figures are still or transparent, reflecting transience; the shifts experienced, when processing emotions on and off the canvas. My intention is for the viewer to escape into and explore these otherworldly landscapes, with their linear structures and off-kilter habitats.

b. Portsmouth, England

Lives and works in Surrey, UK

Education

2022-2023, Turps Art School, Correspondence Course

2013, Chelsea College of Art, Digital Pattern Design & Print

2000-2003, University of Portsmouth, B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, 2.1

10,000 word dissertation: The Importance of Abstract Expressionism, 2.1

Acknowledgements

2024, Contemporary British Painting featured my artwork Petrol Sky online, as part of Painting of the Day

2024, Joint winner of Jackson's Art painting promotion for my artwork Stepping Stone, gifted a Michael Harding set of oil paints

2023, Selected by Tracey Emin to join TKE Studios as a professional studio member, later unable to proceed due to personal reasons

Selected Exhibitions

Solo show

2021, Abstract paintings, Well & Good, Godalming, UK

Group shows

2025, An Exhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects, London, UK, curated by Yuki Miyake and Paul Carey-Kent

2025, Art for Christmas, Natasha O'Kane Sussex Contemporary Art, Lewes, UK

2025, The Soho Open, Great Pulteney Street Gallery, London, UK

2024, ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK, selected by Paul Carey-Kent

2023, Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Gallery, online

2023, The Wild Thought, The Lido Stores, Margate, UK

2022, Precious Postcards, Hollywood Road Gallery, London, UK

2022, Tree of Life, Studio Cennen, Wales, UK

2021, Affordable Art, Laura Long Contemporary, online

2020, Lockdown, Fronteer Art, online

2007, Charity silent auction, Christie’s, London, UK

2003, Graduate show, Portsmouth, UK

2001, Half Way House, shortlisted by Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK