Tracey Elizabeth Downing Tracey Elizabeth Downing is a contemporary painter, graduating from Exeter College of Art in the 1980’s she went on to train as an Art Psychotherapist and has a Masters from Goldsmiths UCL 2009-2012.

Having worked as an NHS Therapist for 7 years and in Education, now as part-time Studio Manager at Studio Upstairs her Art Psychotherapy training still plays an important part in her creative process. Tracey is a member of Winnicott Wednesdays; an Artist Art Therapist Collective. She lives and works in Sutton, Surrey.

Artist Statement

“My intention is for my work is to be like small thoughts that travel far; informed by memory, ephemera and readymade objects that I notice and the relationship between them. I’m interested in how paintings function as an embodied image, containing more than meets the eye, demanding an existential response from the individual.

“Intimacy beckons and calls us into a private realm - warm immediacy feels very much the shared creation of your paintings and related to notions of a creative realm where conscious noticing and unconscious arrival tumble together.” - Phil King Artist, Writer and Mentor

Tracey is an alumna of Turps Banana Painting School correspondence course.

Artist CV