Antonia Hazlewood is an emerging contemporary painter and performance artist, graduating with a Fine Art Degree Award from UCA and now working from her studio in Brighton. Her practice is rooted in research into animism, ecology and eastern philosophy. Driven by the belief that everything is alive, she uses painting to challenge the idea of inanimate objects aiming to cultivate an urge for mindfulness and  greater respect toward the material and natural world. Her vibrant abstract mindscapes seek to function as living, breathing organisms, like water or fire, adapting to shifting environments and continually becoming. Embedding traces of experience and the elements of nature within the surface through sporadic processes, working with vibrant colour, form, and texture. Hazlewood has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including The Turner Contemporary Margate, Boomer Gallery London, Enter Gallery Brighton, The Affordable Art Fair Battersea.