A wooden desk with a photo frame, open book, glasses, and stacks of books. Behind the desk, there are two framed pictures, a wooden organizer, a white vase with flowers. Art by Bella Bigsby

PRESS

Press & Media Coverage – Bella Bigsby Artist Features

Bella Bigsby’s nature-inspired oil paintings have been featured in respected art and culture publications in both the UK and US. With a career spanning over a decade, her work has appeared in exhibitions and articles that celebrate her distinctive style, shaped by folklore, memory, and the natural world.

Decorative shelf with books, framed art prints, small plants, and ornamental objects on a wooden dresser, with framed artwork hanging on a beige wall. Art by Bella Bigsby

Bella Bigsby Selected for Prestigious Art Fair’s 10th Edition

Wymondham resident Bella Bigsby is preparing to exhibit her paintings at the prestigious Art Fair East, one of the UK’s major regional art fairs. It will be held this November in the elegant new venue of The Assembly House in Norwich. She has been selected from international submissions to exhibit…

Dave Newhouse: The lonely life of the artist

The creative artist is a solitary being, alone in his or her thoughts, composing an idea, a feeling and possibly a vision in transitory and often troubling isolation.

Whatever concept evolves out of the artist’s musical instrument, or from the artist’s typewriter, or off the artist’s paint brush, it is private, possibly painful, and likely unexplainable to anybody else in the lonely process of creating…

Barn Owl Alighting

Barn Owl Alighting (oil on canvas 24 inches by 48 inches). Bella Bigsby of Oakland is a self-taught artist who grew up in Norfolk, England. Long fascinated by nature, she has exhibited in the Bay Area and across the United States and United Kingdom for the past 12 years. Her work combines the tangible elements of the world around her with an imagined nature drawn from her memories from home…

InStyle Magazine

A bedroom with a bed covered in multiple cats, some sleeping on a faux fur blanket and others inside a circular pet bed. A painting of an owl in flight hangs on the dark-colored wall above the bed. Art by Bella Bigsby

East Bay Express

The austere, immaculately-conceived nature paintings of self-taught artist Bella Bigsby feel right at home among the custom art-jewelry of the transcendentally upscale Esqueleto in Temescal. Hanging like jewels themselves in moody compositions of calmly arranged, neutral colors, Bigsby’s plant and animal subjects are rendered with the detail of fine illustration.

Restoration Hardware Magazine

World of Interiors Magazine

Traditional Home Magazine

7x7 San Francisco

Installations

A wooden dresser decorated with books, framed artwork, small sculptures, a plant, and a lamp. The wall above has framed art and a mirror. Art by Bella Bigsby

Lola Home Design - photo by Todd Hido

Decorative wooden desk with photo frames, books, a vase with flowers, a mirror, and a lamp on a neutral wall. Art by Bella Bigsby

Lola Home Design - photo by Todd Hido

A bedroom with dark green wall, a wooden bed with white bedding, multiple pillows, a faux fur blanket, and two cats—one lying on a patterned pet bed and one on the blanket. Art by Bella Bigsby

Canvas Print for a private collector

A bedroom with a bed covered in a dark plaid blanket, a potted plant in a white pot, a framed painting of trees, a mirror on the wall, and an open door leading to a bright, curved corridor. Art by Bella Bigsby

Lola Home Design - Home Staging

A bedroom corner with a black chair, a floor lamp, a large black sideboard, and a canvas artwork of a beach scene hanging on the wall. Art by Bella Bigsby

Canvas Print for a private collector

Living room fireplace with white wooden mantel, beige stone surround, black fireplace insert, and a landscape painting of tree silhouettes on the wall above. Art by Bella Bigsby

Framed Print for a private collector

Wooden sideboard with various decorative bowls and a framed picture, above it a large artwork of a rabbit in a winter landscape, in a room with pink walls and a visible doorway to the left. Art by Bella Bigsby

Original oil “Leaping Hare” in the home of a private collector

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A watercolor painting of a barren winter landscape with rows of plowed fields and a line of leafless trees in the background, under a pale sky. Art by Bella Bigsby
Close-up painting of dried seed pods and branches on a light green background. Art by Bella Bigsby