Trisha De Borchgrave was born in Paris in 1961 and spent her childhood in Mallorca, Spain. She moved to London in the mid-seventies and attended the University of Bristol, graduating with a degree in French and History of Art in 1984. After university, Trisha moved to Washington DC where she began to explore the decorative side of painting and embarked upon her own framing business. This allowed her to explore the concept of hand-painting borders on the mountboard surrounding existing artwork. These borders, at first extensions of wash lines, became increasingly complex in detail, colour and scale, in the tradition of Persian miniature painting. In 1990, she opened a shop in Oxfordshire, England, where she hand-painted frames for artwork, and also designed greetings cards and needle-point rugs.

From 1995 onwards, Trisha had a series of exhibitions of her paintings in New York, and moved back to Washington DC in 1997. Ten years later, she returned to London and has lived here since, dedicating herself to painting, specialising in fruits and vegetables, a subject matter of which she is passionate.

“Not a day passes that I am not amazed by the shape, colour and texture of these miracles of nature that nourish all our sensory needs. We see, touch, smell and indeed, taste, what is truly an astonishing plethora of earth’s bounty. Bulbous aubergines, seductive garlic, ethereal figs, fiery peppers, musty mushrooms, velvety peaches…all astoundingly beautiful and relentlessly, mind-numbingly captivating!”