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THE CHRISTMAS SHOW
An exhibition of Ceramics and Paintings
6th December - 28th December 2008
Paintings - Carolyn Genders, Vivienne Ross, Sarah Hillman, Stine Jesperson, Akiko Hirai
Ceramics - John Harris And Richard Tratt
With Christmas approaching, it's a great time to visit The Gallery for stress-free shopping in a relaxed atmosphere where you will be able to find unique gift ideas for the art-loving friend or family member. The Café Upstairs will be open offering locally sourced and hand made light bites and drinks.
December's exhibition, as befits the season, has something for everyone - a mix of established tradition and contemporary sensibilities. The unique voice of each artist and ceramicist ensures that there will be beauty, elegance, humour and artistry.
The Gallery offers a complete framing service and the team are happy to discuss your framing requirements in order to give you a no obligation quote for any piece of artwork or object. Some of the more unusual items they have framed have been a cricket bat, stumps and ball, Spanish decorative fans, fossils, children's resin footprints, Christening robes and assorted collectibles - from cast lead soldiers to Scalextric cars! In fact, the team love the challenge of the more unusual items.
Artist and Makers Information and Quotes
Carolyn Genders explains "Nature continues to be the over-riding inspiration for my work: pebbles, rock strata, space and distance and landscape all excite me, generating ideas. Sketchbook drawings and notes record my personal vision and direct response to the rhythm and movement, surface and pattern of landscape and natural forms."
"Using these observations to release my ideas, I create pieces that are an integration of form and surface. I am intrigued by the three dimensionality of form and of how it is visually altered by the addition of surface texture or pattern: distorted or enhanced, emphasising nuance of shape, creating mood and atmosphere."
Vivienne Ross says "I work with a red earthenware clay which is decorated using coloured slips and under-glazes. My interest lies in making pots which act as containers for both objects and ideas. The shapes are kept simple, made using hand processes such as press-moulding, coiling and slabbing."
Sarah Hillman's ceramics are free from the constraints of modern life, she aims to lift our senses out of routine by creating a connection that grips the body, not fighting to be understood, but demanding to be felt. Lost in a state of aesthetic contemplation her work aims to ignite our senses in an increasingly standardised world. Driven by the unique responsive qualities of clay, Sarah creates ceramic forms that respond to the flowing contours of the body. The rhythm and movement created through her work captivates the viewer in an intimate reciprocal engagement.
Stine Jespersen explains "I make sculptural ceramics to be used in a domestic setting, including vessels and wall-pieces."
"From tubes and coils I chop and tear off pieces of clay, then pinch and press them together around plaster forms or in moulds. This act of repeatedly chopping, tearing, pinching and pressing creates a rhythm and a flow as slight variations between the elements naturally appear. It is like visual music."
"Working with ceramic archetypes, such as the bowl shape, provides an access point for the viewer, and from here I can twist their understanding. It is syncopated, like playing against an underlying beat. Working with contrasts is a key inspiration, whether in colour and texture, order and chaos, or by combining industrial processes and hand building."
Akiko Hirai produces domestic ware for everyday use. She bases her designs on Japanese aesthetics of relativity, the beauty of imperfection, irregularity, spontaneity, and impurity. It is a white slip wear depiction of a woman who is wearing white make-up. It is called Kohiki (powder blown) ware.
John Harris is essentially a landscape artist; John wanders from Worcestershire scenes to Africa and the Middle East in search of varied subjects. The Rivers Severn, the Usk and the Wye are frequently depicted in his work but of late, he has been moving to more abstract responses to rivers and estuaries. He trained at the College of Art, Cardiff following which John spent 25 years in art education in Wales, Malawi and England, becoming a full time painter in 1986 based in Worcestershire.
John has had work selected in the Royal Institute of Watercolourists exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, London; was Welsh Artist of the year in Cardiff and winner of the Elgar's Places competition held at the Elgar Birthplace Museum in 2007 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth.
Richard Tratt paints a variety of wildlife subjects. He is particularly well known for his Wild Habitat oil paintings featuring British Butterflies. He finds the British Countryside an endless source of inspiration. He likes to work on large canvasses depicting lush wildflower meadows, downland slopes and overgrown glades. He also produces smaller, more intimate studies for individual species
He has recently had a book published: Butterfly landscapes which covers all UK species in natural settings.
Forthcoming events and exhibitions
10th January - 1st February 2009 | The Graduate Show |
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