Oona studied Visual and Performing Arts at Brighton Polytechnic, graduating in 1989. She is fascinated by the quality of ever changing light and weather and is well known for her Scottish landscapes; favourite places include the Isle of Islay and the West Coast.

Oona also explores the landscapes surrounding her rural North Dorset home, particularly along the pathways and bridle tracks of unspoilt Fontmell Down and Cranborne Chase. Here too, changing weather can see a landscape presenting many dramatic characters within a single day, whatever the season.

Equally at ease in mid-winter snow and amid the vibrancy of high summer verdant lanes and fields, she also frequently visits Studland Bay where, amazingly, she often has this beautiful beach to herself.

Recently, Oona has completed a series of nine ancient Dorset hedgerow paintings capturing the many-coloured summer hedgerows bursting into early summer.

"These paintings are of hedgerows by the lanes and fields of the Dorset countryside. I find them always alive: in Spring winds they dance and gesture wildly as you travel by, saying “be quick, be quick, the weather is about to turn against you” and in the Summer breezes they sway and dance delightfully as if to say “no need to hurry now”. If you stop, even for a short while, you might well glimpse, in the flickering of the leaves and flowers, some sudden animal movement, a darting bird, and as a cloud passes over perhaps hear a snuffling in the undergrowth of a tiny mammal staying out of sight of a nearby hawk. And as I look I see joyful colours everywhere." - Oona Campbell

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