Araminta Blue (b. 1990, Cyprus) is a British contemporary painter based in London whose practice explores the fluid boundaries between figuration and abstraction, memory and sensation. She trained at the Ruskin School of Art (BA Hons) and completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019, developing a materially experimental approach to oil painting characterised by layered, translucent surfaces and shifting bodily forms.
Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the UK and internationally, including presentations at the gallery in London and participation in major contemporary art contexts such as Christie’s and Bonhams London. Blue has also received recognition including the Artists Collecting Society Studio Prize (2019) and was shortlisted for awards such as the Chadwell Award, Derek Hill Scholarship, and Hix Award.
A significant institutional milestone in her recent career is her major solo exhibition Venti Trasversali at the Civic Museum of Palazzo della Penna in Perugia in June of 2026 following her first museum show at the MARV Museum in Gradara, Italy in 2024. Her latest exhibition places her practice in direct dialogue with the museum’s neoclassical and mythological interiors from the 1800's, unfolding as a site-specific installation that responded to themes of light, night, and wind as shifting emotional and perceptual forces. The presentation marked an important moment in her museum trajectory in Italy, embedding her work within a historically layered civic and cultural context.
Blue’s paintings are known for their evocative, often fragmented figures that emerge and dissolve within atmospheric fields of colour. Her practice engages ideas of vulnerability, transformation, and psychological space, where the act of painting becomes a process of continual emergence rather than fixed representation.