About Penny

Penny Warden is a renowned artist known for her major public commissions in the UK. The sense of movement and vibrancy within her paintings is Penny’s trademark.Penny has been interviewed several times on BBC Radio. She was introduced to Prince Philip after donating a large painting to one of his charities St. Luke’s Hospital in London. In 2006 Penny met and talked with  the US Secretary of State and the British Foreign Secretary when they visited and viewed the 15 radical paintings that Blackburn Cathedral had commissioned Penny to paint. The two politicians lit candles under one of Penny’s 6ft paintings in memory of the tsunami victims in the previous year and for world peace. Penny’s commissioned work at Blackburn Cathedral has been commented upon by Archbishop Desmund Tutu as “wonderfully creative”.Her paintings have featured in a number of national magazines and international books and her work is currently being used in a major publication by Cambridge University. She has been part of several consultation groups at Windsor Castle on “Human Creativity and the Arts” and is a frequent guest speaker at conferences all over the UK. Her commissioned work can be seen on the BBC website.

Penny's 6ft figurative oil paintings “The Phoenix Series” have been seen by many thousands of people whilst on a five year solo tour of ten English cathedrals.

In 2004 as a ‘rising artist’, Penny was chosen to exhibit her work in St Paul’s Cathedral alongside Tracy Emin and other prominent artists, in an innovative and exciting national exhibition called “Presence: Images of Christianity for the Third Millennium.”