Colin Merrin was born in London and studied at Maidstone College of Art, Kingston University and the University of London, Institute of Education. Primarily a landscape and figurative painter, he strongly believes the process of making paintings to be at least as important as what they represent. It is the abstract and expressionist elements; the manipulation and physicality of paint and colour and the qualities of light and mood that interest him. Whilst based in London, the urban landscape dominated his work. Nevertheless since 2007 he has lived and worked in Sussex and recent paintings have reflected more rural themes.  He is currently working on a year long painting project based on the South Downs landscape, culminating in a one person show at the Hop Gallery in Lewes in November 2011. He was elected an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2009.

Along with ceramic restorer and artist Sarah Burges, he is a director of the Lansdown Studios and Gallery at Lansdown Place in Lewes (www.lansdowngallery.co.uk).

Future Exhibitions 
2012 Pelham House, Lewes, East Sussex 24th October - 5th December

2011 Hop Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex, 'Half Wild and Wholly Tame' 5th - 17th November 

Recent Exhibitions

2011 'Artists United' Foundry Gallery, Lewes

2011 Artwave, Lansdown Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex

2011 Gallery North, Hailsham, East Sussex
2011 Royal Cornwall Museum, Royal Watercolour Society Autumn Exhibition, Truro

2011 Bankside Gallery, Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition
2011 Lansdown Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex
2010 Bankside Gallery, Royal Watercolour Society, Autumn Exhibition
2010 Brighton Art Fair
2010 St Joseph's Hospice Open Exhibition, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex
2010 Artwave Open Studios, Lewes, East Sussex

2010 Riverside Gallery, Barnes, London

2010 Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy

2010 Glasgow Arts Club, Scotland

2010 Bankside Gallery, London. Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition.

2010 Webbs Road Fine Art, Battersea, London

2009 Bankside Gallery, London. The Royal Watercolour Society Autumn Exhibition 2009

2009 Bankside Gallery, Mall Galleries, London. High Watermark RWS/RI 2009

2009 Galerie Carre d'artistes, Paris

2009 St Stephens Arts Festival, Chelsea, London

2009 Bankside Gallery, London. The Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition

2009 Mall Galleries, London. The Royal Society of British Artists

2008 Webbs Road Fine Art, Battersea, London

2008 Windsor Contemporary Art Fair

2008 Apple Gallery, Godalming, Surrey

2008 Neil Graham Gallery, Brentwood, Essex

2008 Manchester Buy Art Fair with Webbs Road Fine Art

2008 Brighton Art Fair