Tabitha Powles is a figurative artist, taking inspiration from experiences she has witnessed as a nurse. She is interested in the un-captured moments that she has seen and subsequently adding in abstract information. The objects that appear in the paintings are items that surround an individual, which may be tangible or imagined. Those items or objects will bear some kind of significance to the individual or to their environment.
Tabitha has also painted a series of portraits of nurses she worked with during the pandemic. They are dressed in dark colours to signify the mourning of lost lives.
The artist has recently completed a collection of paintings of her daughters and niece and, since the death of her mother, Tabitha is beginning to work on some new ideas exploring the fragility of life, birth and death, beginnings and endings.
Tabitha has practised as an artist and worked as a nurse in parallel for many years and has had the opportunity to exhibit her work on many occasions. She works from a studio in Catford.
Instagram: @tabitharpowles