I have been working on an exciting project over the last few months responding to items in Richmond Borough Art Collection. These new paintings can be seen in an exhibition at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham from 16th March – 27th June.
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I am thrilled to have had one of my new pastel paintings selected for the “Richmond: People and Places” exhibition at Orleans House Gallery from 2nd June until 19th August 2018.
This week I have been drawing at Kew gardens with The Royal Drawing School. “City Gardens and Greenhouses” under the guidance of Clare Newbolt and Sara Lee Roberts.
It was a fantastically inspirational session working alongside their postgraduate students. We were given many interesting ideas to explore within our drawings. Imagining the images we create to be like small theatre sets with a “back” to our image where we were to suggest marks and indications of what was there without too much detail. We were also asked to consider not only the lines we make ourselves but the space between these line as of equal importance like in the work of Japanese Sumie paintings – where the white space is viewed not as a non space but as a solid part of the compositions. To quote Claude Debussy “Music is the space between the sounds.”
Here are a few of my sketches below from the fantastic Cacti displays.
New year…. new beginnings
I am back in the studio this week working in my sketchbook.
I want to explore my drawing and mark making this year.
An inspirational quote by John Berger with his honest analysis of “ways of seeing” and creating.
“For the artist drawing is discovery…. each mark you make on the paper is a stepping-stone from which you proceed to the next, until you have crossed your subject as though it were a river.”
John Berger in his essay “The basis of all painting and sculpture is drawing.”
I have been looking closely at a landscape, seeing its history as physical scars on its surface and translating this into colour, textures, pattern and marks creating rhythms.
I have had a busy summer painting in North Norfolk and around London. Here is a peek at some of my new work that you will be able to see in person at our Open Studio’s on 10th – 13th November at Wimbledon Art Studio’s SW17 0BB
Wimbledon Art Studio’s, Riverside Road, SW17 0BB
Blue Building Studio 305 (on the first floor)
I will be showing my new body of work.
I have been experimenting in the studio to create a new body of work. I have started painting my landscapes on boards covered in metal leaf. This is enabling me to really play with layers of colours and glazes. I am really excited about scaling up my landscapes and making some larger work. My new work will be available from the Wimbledon Art Studio’s Open Studio Weekend on the 12th – 15th May.
New local landscape paintings are being exhibited at Orleans House Gallery – Twickenham
Exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday until the 6th March
Thank you to every one that came to our fantastic Open Studios Art Show.
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. It was a fantastic opportunity to show my new paintings and get some feedback on future product plans.
