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Tori Tipton
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About
Before turning to painting full time, Tori sourced vintage industrial relics for commercial design projects. This career shaped her eye for patina, aged textures and objects that bear the marks of use, qualities that continue to inform her work.
Walking is central to her practice. Moving through the landscape, she gathers earth and other materials, noticing worn surfaces, fragments and traces of what came before. These encounters inform both the physical substance of her paintings and her interest in what remains and what is erased.
In the studio, Tori works in response to the surface, allowing existing marks and unexpected changes to influence each piece. Layers of pigment and translucent oil glazes reveal or partially obscure what lies beneath, while copper develops colour through patination. Her interventions preserve something of the material’s history while allowing it to become something new.
Tori has exhibited in galleries across the UK, and her work is held in private collections internationally.
Current Work
At this year’s Manchester Art Fair, Tori presents paintings and assemblage alongside works from her ongoing Continuum series.
The reclaimed steel at the heart of Continuum once formed part of an agricultural building, where decades of exposure—and a fire—left their marks. Working with these already weathered surfaces, Tori uses colour and translucent glazes to draw out their detail, preserving the rust, scars and patina beneath.
Alongside these pieces, copper-based works explore transformation through chemically developed patinas and layered surfaces. Dark passages catch copper and mineral tones as the light and viewing angle change. Across the collection, the materials play an active role: their histories and unpredictable responses help shape the finished work.
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