Artist CV - Denisa Mansfield
1990 Date of birth.
2005-2008 Art and Design Foundation, London, United Kingdom.
Raised in London, now lives in Colchester, Essex.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 13 – 16 March. UNVEILED: FROM STUDIO TO SPOTLIGHT. The Minories Art
Gallery, 74 High Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1UE.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 CAS Plein Air Exhibition, Organised by Denisa Mansfield and sponsored by Colchester
Art Society. The Minories Gallery. Colchester, Essex.
2025 ‘Saatchi Gallery’, A Chelsea Paint Out Exhibition, The Gallery at Green and Stone,
Fulham Road, London, SW3 6HY.
‘Blooming Grandeur’, 76th Annual Open Summer Exhibition, Chelsea Art Society,
Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, London, SW3 5EE.
‘An Evening of Jazz’, My Family and Other Animals Colchester Art Society Summer
Exhibition, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
‘How to be normal; Tears of the Moon’, WOMAN’S ESSENCE SHOW, Musa
International. WAA Woman Art Award 2025. St.Art Gallery, 36 Eastcastle Street,
London,W1W 8DP.
‘Children with Bees in the Rose Garden, ‘A romantic Walk’, ‘A Day out in Town’. SB
Art Group Exhibition, The Archives, Unit 10 – Floor 5, N15 4QN.
2024 ‘Twiggy’, Colchester Art Society, Summer Open Exhibition, Benham Gallery, The
Minories Gallery. Colchester, Essex.
‘Fur Elise’, Colchester Art Society, Curators Choice Exhibition, Benham Gallery, Cuckoo
Farm Studios. Colchester, Essex.
‘An Evening of Jazz’, ‘The Telephone’, ‘The Measure of a Man’. Art in East Anglia
Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
2023 ‘Water Lilies by Castle Park’, Colchester Art Society, Winter Exhibition, The Minories
Gallery. Colchester, Essex.
Emerging Woman Artist Award: Arts to Hearts Project Art Prize 2023:
https://artstoheartsproject.com/emrging-woman-artist-award/
‘Art Nouveau Vase with Wild Garden Flowers’, The Royal Society of British Artists 200th
Anniversary Exhibition 2023, at Mall Galleries, London.
SHARE YOUR ART' EXHIBITION | New York. ‘Artist of the Month’ December, chosen
to display a selection of works represented by BIG SCREEN PLAZA. March.
2022 Street Stories AR Art Trail, Our Colchester A BID to make history, Graffio Arts, Arch.
Bank Passage, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1HZ, next to Barclays Bank.
‘The Old Windmill’, Suffolk Open Studios, Members Summer Exhibition, 142 Art
Gallery, Felixtowe.
‘The Telephone’, Summer Online Exhibition, Colchester Art Society.
Chosen to display a selection of floral oil paintings, Art In East Anglia Gallery, Bury St.
Edmunds.
‘The Dreamers with Garden Hats’, Suffolk Open Studios, Members Spring Exhibition,
The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings.
2021 ‘A Coastal Walk by the tall Pine Trees’, Colchester Art Society Winter Exhibition, Trinity
Square Space, a collaboration between Colchester Art Society and We Are The Minories.
Colchester, Essex.
‘Tears of the Moon’, Circus Exhibition, The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth.
‘An Autumn Awakening’ and ‘La Femme Moderne’, Open Art Exhibition, Chelmsford
Museum, a collaboration with Friends of Chelmsford Museum, Chelmsford, Essex.
‘Prettyfields Vineyard’, ‘Punch and Judy with Fairground Dice’ and ‘The Dancing
Orange’, Art Exhibition, Angel Pavilion, Broomfield, Essex.
‘Swan of Avon’ and ‘Wild Bluebells in a Victorian Vase’, The Art Place, a collaboration
with Chelmsford Creative and Chelmsford Festival, Chelmsford, Essex.
‘Tigris’, Art in East Anglia Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
‘We Vogue’, ‘La Femme Moderne’ and ‘Ram Vase with Tulips’ Swiss Art Expo, Art Box
Projects, Zurich, Switzerland.
Surreal Collection for Reberation Virtual Exhibition, The Holy Art, London.
‘Caput Quadratum’ Colchester Art Society Online Summer Exhibition, Colchester, Essex.
AWARDS
2025 WWA Woman Art Award – Awarded for its high quality of great artistic expression,
reflecting unique vision, creativity, and technical mastery, embodying a profound message
that resonates with the project’s essence. Musa Internation, Woman’s Essence Show.
London.
2023 The Geoffrey Vivis Memorial Award – Awarded for ‘Art Nouveau Vase with Wild Garden
Flowers’ Oil Painting. Special Award by The Royal Society of British Artists. Mall
Galleries, London.
2022 Making a difference Award – Awarded to artwork that displays a positive outlook and
makes a positive difference to the viewer. Special Award by Suffolk Open Studios in
partnership with Suffolk Artlink. Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings.
2001 Young Artist and Designer Award – Designing an energy efficient supermarket of the
future, Sainsbury’s in Greenwich. Art and Design Competition between 10 local schools,
Deni Toma (maiden name) won and was awarded by Manager Sakwinder Bassi and Nicola
Harnett from Personnel. Painting was solely selected and exhibited at Sainsbury’s.
Greenwich, London.
SELECTED ARTICLES/REVIEWS
2026 Featured artwork, ‘The Pregnant Artist’ by the incredible Denisa Mansfield and it would
feel criminal not to give it the space to breathe on its own. Review by Alicia at The Bloom
Bulletin, Essex.
Beginnings, Encounters and New Directions, Plein Air Exhibition 2026 at the Minories
Galleries, written by Alicia at The Bloom Bulletin, Essex.
2023 Featured Artist, 100 Artworks curated by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP, Art
Advisory. Saatchi Art, saatchiart.com.
RECOGNITION, Artist featured in a collection. Saatchi Art, saatchiart.com.
2021 ‘The power to create, is the power to inspire’ Denisa Mansfield, review on a selection of
artwork written by Jack Trodd, Curator and Advisor for Emerging and Established Artists,
Brushes with Greatness. London.
Painting of the Day, Paint Britain, Psyche Matrix. Contemporary British Painting.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025 Colchester Art Society Newsletter – Committee Member, Meet Colchester Art Society
member artist Denisa Mansfield, creator and leader of the CAS Plein Air painting group.
December 2025, Issue 102, UK.
Colchester Art Society Newsletter – CHAIRMAN’S CORNER, introducing Plein Air
Organiser and artist Denisa Mansfield. January 2025, Issue 99, UK.
2024 ARTIT – Selected works and featured on the front cover of Landscape Artists of the Year
2024, Denisa Mansfield, ‘Morning Sun’ and ‘Lovers in a rowing boat’. December 2024,
exclusive online publication. USA.
2023 ARTS TO HEARTS – Denisa Mansfield, An International Group Show, ‘Woman with
floral Hat’. Summer Exhibition Catalogue, Emerging Artist Women Award by Arts to
Hearts Project. August 2023.
ARTIST TALK MAGAZINE – Denisa Mansfield, ‘The Telephone’. March 2023, Issue
24, UK.
2022 HOUSE & GARDEN – Denisa Mansfield, ‘Roses and Lilies’. April 2022, Conde Nast
UK, London.
HOUSE & GARDEN – Denisa Mansfield, ‘An Autumn Awakening’. March 2022, Conde
Nast, UK.
2021 “IDENTITY” Frida Kahlo – Denisa Mansfield, Harmony out of Chaos, New Woman; an
unapologetic Life. Boomer Magazine, Third Edition, Constantin, Boomer Gallery,
London.
‘Gladiolus’ King House Fine Art Magazine, Issue 01 by Ivana King, Curator, Published by
King House Limited. www.kinghousegallery.com
