AMELIA COWARD

AMELIA Coward is a Kent based artist best known for her explorations into mixing, blending and grading colours.

Amelia Coward is a British artist with a 1st class honours degree from Central St Martins and MA from the Royal College of Art and is known for her immersive works exploring colour theory, geometry, and spatial rhythm. Influenced by Josef Albers and with a background in textiles, she creates vivid ombré dot and stripe paintings and intricate collages from her archive of 40,000 vintage maps. Her labour-intensive process blends hand-crafted techniques with laser-cut precision, resulting in dynamic, colour-driven compositions. Inspired by Kinetic and Op art, Coward's work invites active viewing and emotional connection. Her art is held in private and public collections worldwide, with major installations across the US, including San Diego, Brooklyn, and Saudi Arabia.

Her practice follows two distinct yet interconnected strands. One focuses on the signature ombré dot and stripe paintings—vivid, structured arrangements that echo the textile logic developed during my early career in design. The other centres around my vast personal archive of over 40,000 vintage maps. These maps are treated as palettes of found colour; she extracts focused in fragments of map, bond them to wood, and laser-cuts them into precise, circular forms. These are then composed into large-scale works that are both meditative and visually dynamic, often incorporating thousands of elements in carefully calibrated chromatic gradients. These tiny pieces speak to the viewer triggering a mixture of nostalgia, memories and desire. A love for places traveled, memories made and places not yet explored. To find out more about more about Amelia Coward you can visit her website here. 

We are delighted to have Amelia as part of our Contemporary Kent Artists exhibition at The Horsebridge Arts Gallery the 8th - 20th of October 2025.