Biography

Colette Standish is an English painter and photographer. Colette graduated from St Martin’s School of Art, London, and has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and America. Her achievements include: Jessop’s Photography Prize in London, 2000 and fellowship awards in New Mexico, Italy, and Spain. Her work is in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe and the Anais Nin Foundation Art collection. Colette published her first art and poetry book last year, Viaggio: A journey through life’. Other publications include: A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary
Journal Volume 8, 2011 and Volume 9, 2012, Sky Blue Press. Colette is currently working on a new portfolio of paintings based on ‘Abstracting the Figure’. Colette currently lives in San Francisco.