Amelia Power is a painter and educator based in London. She studied at The Ruskin and The Royal Drawing School and went on to teach drawing at both. She has taught drawing and painting in schools and colleges across London since 2007 and has a PCGE for Artist-Teachers from the Institute of Education. She exhibits widely as well as taking on private commissions, including portraits. Past exhibitions include The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, The Discerning Eye and The RA Summer Exhibition. In 2009 she was one of five artists selected to take part in a residency at Kensington Palace culminating in an exhibition at Thomas Williams Fine Art. All of my work begins with drawing from the world around me. I am fascinated by plants, and despite living in the city, I seek out places where vegetation has taken over. I am interested in highlighting the force of these strange silent life forms in an environment which can seem strictly human. The subject of my work is often ordinary but in the act of painting I want to create a theatre of the everyday that makes the familiar strange. I also work from my imagination, making drawings and paintings that derive from dreams and memories.