We are very excited and fortunate to have some new pieces of bronze on display from Emma. Including a five foot high pair of fighting hares - yes five foot!! and yes it was quite an experience just getting them through the door. They can only be described as superb- the photos don’t do them justice. They would make an incredible addition to any garden or courtyard and would look truly spectacular in the right kind of house. Pictures of Emma patinating these hares was posted in news ‘Emma Rodgers - Chelsea arts club’ Since that show they have been on a prestigous journey before finding their way to us.

Click on this image to learn more about Emma and her latest major exhibition as part of the ‘rise of women artists’ at the Walker Gallery Liverpool, where you can also see a video of emma in her studio. Or look at Emmas page under our list of artists for more video.

Another key new piece of note is Icarus, a beautifully structured one off bronze casting on stainless steel stand measuring approx five feet including the stand with Emma’s trade mark articulated limbs.

Sarah Dunstan works from the Gaolyard Studios situated in St. Ives, Cornwall renowned for its thriving artistic community. The studios were established by the potter John Bedding in 1999. It’s an ideal environment to work in for the 9 potters whose studios link to a communal area where numerous cups of coffee, knowledge and kilns are shared.

The process.

I collect images, such as the shape of the railing in a hidden doorway in St.Ives or writing on an antique glass bottle. I use my sketchbook to draw and paint these impressions but also as a scrapbook. Feathers, fabric and packaging are glued in next to photos. These photos are fragmented memories of places I’ve visited, a close up detail of a Greek sign perhaps, or advertising on a French café wall.

With the clay rolled out in front of me, I start to play. I might begin with a block of colour then introduce an area of decoration that moves across the surface breaking out of one area and travelling around what will become a 3 dimensional piece. Like a painter, I work over the surface until it appears to be ‘right’. When the work is constructed I get a surprise, hopefully a good one, and the composition that felt right as a flat plane does something new when it becomes a vessel.

 

A collection of photo polymer etchings, printed intaglio on Fabriano paper from different series’ of works produced over the last 2 -3 years.

I want to honour the small incidents and resonances that I recognise in the ordinary.
The prints have in common a contemplation of the glimpsed view of the hinterlands in our cities and suburbs. I would like my prints to record the marginal and to merit the viewer lingering in front of them, perhaps recognising the beauty in the overlooked and wondering about the stories there. There are recollections of film noir, the deadpan, the edge of things, perhaps sometimes a subtext of anxiety and underlying violence.
I like European ‘deadpan’ photography of the 1990s, often presenting grim places emptied out of their inhabitants, offering a lingering gaze on territories scattered with the ‘exploded fragments’ of the recent past…as David Campany argues, such images have ‘a reticent muteness…that leaves them open to interpretation’
I try to manage the incessant exposure in contemporary life to the visual through photography and print. My research material includes my photographs of images set at the periphery, they are the starting point for an exploration of unknown individual narratives. Photography is for me a way of seeing things more consciously and less casually, of indexing experience and logging and controlling the chaos of incessant observation. The process of print, the etching of the image and the individual wiping of the plate and the subsequent alterations produced, honours the fleeting moment, through the length of time devoted to each piece.

Pam Newall originally trained as an architect at Cardiff in the mid 70’s and worked professionally as such until 2006. In 2007 she enrolled at the Regional Print Centre at Yale College Wrexham to study printmaking. She then went on to complete an MA in fine art print at Cambridge College of Art
She has exhibited regularly throughout Great Britain & Europe including the RWA Open print exhibiton Bristol 2009 and BITE exhibition Mall Galleries London
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Colin Taylor is a landscape painter that much is obvious. But his work is less about the landscape we see and more about the landscape that is experienced. This requires an exploration of a visual language that is not an optical expression, but an emotional one - In truth, it is probably more about,  ‘what I can’t explain, but know to be there and is not restricted by quantifiable ‘fact’ or physicality’.

After studying at Trent Polytechnic (Now Nottingham Trent University), several career episodes in marketing destinations for economic development and tourism he founded his own outdoor pursuits company in the mid 1990’s and started to travel more widely.  He has climbed in Europe, South America and in Asia, and now divides his time between mountaineering and painting.  Each activity influences the other.

In 1778 Thomas West published ‘A Guide to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire’, which  is generally accepted to have been the first tourist guide within the intention of encouraging people to visit another area, purely for aesthetic reasons.  In his guide, West describes twenty-one locations, which he calls ‘stations’ around the main lakes from whereupon one can ‘obtain the most advantageous view of the land’.  About three years ago, using a contemporary OS map and a copy of the book Colin began to visit each ‘station’ and in response produce a series of paintings and drawings. Some of the paintings in this exhibition are from that series.

In 2008-09 these paintings formed the basis of a 24 month tour across England and Wales supported by the Arts Council taking in venues Canterbury, Denbigh, Kendal, Manchester, Oxford and Buxton.  He is currently represented in New York by the Brenda Taylor Gallery (no relation!) and has a major forthcoming exhibition in Liverpool Cathedral in March 2011.

 

The Artist Matthew Forster is recognised as one of the most innovative young watercolourist in Britain today. Forster seeks to challenge the traditional watercolour technique with a bold and innovative approach.  Foremost a landscape painter, his paintings reflect the changing landscape of the British Isles.  Forster has spent extensive study periods in various locations around the world and as a accomplished painter his aim is to create paintings that “break the boundaries of 21st century watercolour”.

 

For June 2010

Clive Burnell - new paintings, Colin Taylor - paintings in responce to Thomas West’s ‘Guide to the lakes of Cumberland’, Sarah Dunstan - ceramics vessels, Elaine Peto - ceramic sculpture. Other artists include a small collection of abstracts from Carole Baker RBSA and some superbly crafted etchings from Pam Newall.

Clive Burnell
Clives atmospheric, semi-abstract paintings are design to capture the ’spirit or essence of landscape.’ In 2006 he won the “Spirit of Llyn” competition at Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, North Wales and in the same year was awarded the “Philip Malone” Gallery prize at the South West Academy Summer Exhibition

Colin Taylor
The majority of this body of work is a direct responce to Thomas West’s 1778 ‘A Guide to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire’, which  is generally accepted to have been the first tourist guide within the intention of encouraging people to visit another area, purely for aesthetic reasons, using a contemporary OS map and a copy of the book Colin began to visit each ‘station’ and in response produce a series of paintings and drawings.

 Elaine Peto
Beautifully finished hand built ceramic sculptures. Not only are Elaines animals anatomically superb but she has an ability to capture the character of her subject with annoying ease.

Sarah Dunstan
Sarah constantly collects and photographs imagery.  Her work represents and urban personal impression of the world around her and fragmented memories of places she has visited.

New show for June

This coming Friday - 11th June will be the PV for our next show, so if you fancy joing us for a glass between 5.30 and 8pm or any time on saturday day until 5pm. Fantastic new work from Clive Burnell, and Elaine Peto also two new artists; pianter Colin Taylor and ceramicist Sarah Dunstan. Also joining the party is Carole Baker RBSA with a small collection of abstract work. Come along. enjoy the art, enjoy a glass of wine and some good conversation…

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