JOSEPHINE TROTTER Biography

Josephine Trotter (b 1940) is an eminent British artist who lives and works in North Oxfordshire. She was tutored initially by Maurice Feild, an English painter and printmaker closely associated with the Euston Road School and was taught to draw by Euan Uglow in the Coldstream tradition at St Albans School of Art.  She graduated with a BA Hons from Chelsea School of Art in 1961.

With an innate love of the landscape, Trotter paints entirely en plein air in direct response to her surroundings. This spontaneity and joy of paint are reflected in the sumptuous, vibrant scenes she has painted all over the world; from Egypt to India, Italy and France, to the rolling hills surrounding her Oxfordshire home. Whilst she is first and foremost a landscape artist, interior scenes, still lifes and portraits form an important part of her practice.  Whatever the subject, Trotter finds enormous joy in painting.

Trotter has had 26 solo exhibitions, showing her work at New Grafton Gallery, Connaught Brown, The Gallery in Cork Street and Gallery 8 and her paintings are held in collections internationally.  Josephine Trotter, a limited edition hard-back artist monograph was published in 2025.

“After more than six decades of braving storms, tractors and inquisitive cows for her art, fortified by the odd Guinness, Josephine Trotter still finds joy in painting pictures that sing with colour”

Carla Passino, Arts & Antiques Editor, Country Life Magazine

“I think life is joyful and I want to express it”

Josephine Trotter