Sculpture & Prints
AT THE ARCHITECT'S GALLERY
30th September 2011 – 25th February 2012
This Mixed Autumn Exhibition brings together six artists.
Esme Baker
Life is full of sparkles - small moments of delight, hidden amongst the routine and repetition. I aim to translate mundane objects into something visually interesting while retaining some sense of the original.
I enjoy when items are not fully exposed: by abstracting or concealing the item in some way, I shift the focus away from the original subject matter and onto the painting.The production of each painting is a challenge. I find that changes and experiments need to happen, for better or worse, on the surface of each painting. Results perhaps surprise, delight or horrify but, I feel, need to be resolved with paint. This gives me the freedom to rework the problem over and over, translating the image from my head to the canvas. In order for a painting to be successful I believe it should be complete within itself, without explanation or back story. For me, it just has to feel right.
Paul Bennett
The seascape and abstract paintings created are inspired by memory and experience and are developed using artistic intuition. They are not tied into any specific region or time, they are an eclectic synthesis of place, weather and season. I choose to capture and communicate my experience this way as it reflects life with its unceasing process of observing, experiencing, interpreting, storing – and ultimately – reflecting. The result I strive for is a unique and original visual experience that has captured not only the sense of somewhere/sometime, but also the more subtle notion of recollection.
Ray Gale
Ray’s career began in education and later progressed to being a part-time, self employed artist, developing an interest in printmaking, specialising in producing original screen prints. His main interest is in the structure and pattern of industrial scenes depicting machines, for example the construction of motorways and railways, or people at work in the factory or brewery.
Elizabeth Rollins-Scott
Since childhood, I have had a fascination with the esoteric and spiritual dimensions of life that has been based upon my profound personal experiences with auras and energies, which have included visions, dreams and physical manifestations. My inspiration has also been drawn from both the primitive forms of antiquity as well as the religious sculptures and art forms of both the Gothic, Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Throughout my career I have predominantly developed two bodies of work: one vessel and sculptural based, which is ostensibly my angelic sculptural pieces and my sleeping heads and the other, complex surfaces inspired by my love of Egyptian and coptic textiles and explored through the medium of print and painting, but throughout, there is a strong overriding common language and synergistic relationship which elucidates the relation between the modes, that is evidenced by both the complex application of layers and detailed markings and patterns.
Paul Smith
My work starts from photographs of urban and rural environments: photographs I take documenting my experience of locality. Photography has always played a central role in my art, whether as the finished piece or as part of the process towards a painting. Often the paintings are created from composite photographs, i.e. the sky and the sea are from different times/locations, altering the narrative of the final work. I explore the relationship between landscape and memory, from charting the post-industrial developments in the North East since my youth, to filtering the wholly different lights of suburban wilderness on the Pacific Coast of the USA: a landscape that comes to us already narrated by hundreds of forgotten films and re-membered as a series of familiar stills.
Andy Waite
…sometimes out walking it is possible to feel absorbed enough to lose the sense of self and enter the landscape wholly and allow colour, form and emotion to envelop the consciousness - these moments are fleeting and back in the studio there is a similar response - a kind of intuition takes over whereby the act of painting is all trust and letting go so that you might step back and not recall having made the marks and yet, if only briefly, recognise oneself a little more…
The dates and exhibitions shown are provisional and may be changed without notice. If you would like upto date information on the forthcoming exhibitions please contact the gallery.
The dates and exhibitions shown are provisional and may be changed without notice. If you would like upto date information on the forthcoming exhibitions please contact the gallery.