Creates Magazine - Spring 2020

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CONTENTS Jane Keay Emerging Artist Award 2020 Oriane Pierrepoint Sadie Aucott Helen MacRitchie Stephanie Else Tia Lambert Alex Waddell Chris Brook Eileen Waycott Les Lees Pete Bryden Sally Anne Wake Jones Lynn Keddie Victoria Keeble Jennie Blunt

Anne Bate-Williams Ian Coleman Blue Ginger Gallery Judith Malan

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4 COVER CREATIVE JANE KEAY

JANE KEAY Jane was born in Shropshire, and has lived and worked in the borderlands between Wales and England for most of her life.

Brought up by grandparents in an old, untouched Victorian house, surrounded by a huge secret garden, allowed her the quietness of time and space, and the freedom to feed her mind, senses, and imagination.

Jane’s grandfather walked, or carried her, along the lanes and fields for miles, with stories of the past, and present times, teaching her about plants and herbs, all living creatures great and small, both seen, or felt. These enchanted moments embedded an awareness of both the grandeur and simplicity of the landscape around us, which has remained her inspiration for all of her life, and is present in all her works.

Drawing and painting is part of Jane’s being; her expression of ideas, feelings, and emotions. It is everything she feels, touches, sees, and senses.

She is very much inspired by the book illustrators of the late 1900s and early 20th century, books that are brimming with imaginative, creative, and beautiful drawings. Works by Arthur Rackham, Tunnicliffe, Anne Anderson, the amazing Robinson brothers, Thomas and Charles, and William Heath. So, Jane’s first love was to learn from these masters, creating texture, light, shade, and even colours, purely using the medium of black and white Having taught herself to use watercolours, Jane has become a passionate painter. She loves working with watercolours and inks together, often adding under and over layers of both, to create a sort of inner glow, a depth, beyond the paper used, and hoping to captivate more than one moment in the timeline.

Jane senses a landscape of the mind, body, and spirit, not just a linear one, but sentient also. It’s where she feels the ancient, past, present, and the future perhaps, all felt within the “now”. Time, then becomes mutable, and tells its own story.

Moonrise

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Midnight Moonlight

So, all of her works have a story of their own, sometimes reflected in a title which she has given to them.

At the moment, Jane teaches a small art group in Made in the Marches Gallery, in Kington, on a weekly basis, where she exhibits regularly and she is also a resident artist. She also offers talks and demonstrations of her work privately.

Jane will be exhibiting in Bishops Castle in the early summer, and will be opening her own studio at home for h.Art in September, with a variety of Christmas venues later in the year.

This year, she is illustrating two books. ‘Muffin the Mule and the Passage of Time’ will be published later on this year, and, ‘Through a Door Marked Summer’ is due to be published early in the new year 2021, both by the writer Benjamin James Huxley.

Illustration from ‘Through a Door Marked Summer’

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COMPETITION

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2020

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2020 On the 4th January 2020, the brand new Creates Gallery and Coffee Shop opened its doors to over a hundred guests for the launch of the Emerging Artist Award Exhibition.

Sixty-seven finalists were chosen to exhibit from the 200 entries, and just three were chosen as winners in the individual categories of Fine Art, Photography & 2D, Sculpture & 3D. Oriane Pierrepoint won the Fine Art Award, for her stunning pastel of Lily, a matriarch from Kenya in her Sunday best. The judges were impressed with not just the technical detail, but also the energy and realism of the piece.

Sadie Aucott was awarded with the Photography & 2D prize, with her pieces Red Kite and Tiger. Using fine florist wire, she creates stunning pieces that appear to be sketches when viewed from a distance.

Lily by Oriane Pierrepoint

Tiger by Sadie Aucott

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Helen MacRitchie won the Sculpture & 3D award with her piece, Revealing Pathways. This 3D textile design was created to explore Helen’s feelings of disclocation from home, and her experiences into the unknown.

Throughout the exhibition, the public were able to vote for their favourite piece, and in total we received over 600 votes. The winner of the People’s Choice Award was Anna Reed, for her pieces Arthur and Alfred.

The standard of work entered into the competition was very high, and a few of the artists are now featured in the Creates Gallery & Coffee Shop and in our Fine Art Gallery.

Arthur by Anna Reed

If you are an artist who would like to enter the Emerging Artist Award 2021, we will be open to entries from September 2020, please follow Creates Gallery on Facebook or join our mailing list to receive updates.

Revealing Pathways by Helen MacRitchie

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FINE ARTIST

ORIANE PIERREPOINT

ORIANE PIERREPOINT Oriane is a young portraitist living in South Wales.

Having attained a first class degree in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University and further training at Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal Drawing School, Oriane is on the road to establishing herself as a fully fledged portraitist, balancing commissioned work with other self motivated large scale projects.

She has exhibited in galleries in London, Oxford

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and Cardiff, and has been shortlisted for several portraiture awards.

Oriane not only tries to achieve an accurate likeness of her subjects, but treats each portrait as an intense exploration of tone, colour and composition. When embarking on a new portrait, she feels it’s essential to build a rapport with her subject to gauge their personality, sometimes she may feel the need to

Dilys

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film an interview with her sitter, as a visual record to refer back to. Initially, rough sketches and tonal drawings are taken from life to capture an impression of the human form or profile, and to determine a general lay out.

These sketches are the basis for the final portrait, paired with photos of the posed sitter. The main bulk of the portrait is then fleshed out in either thick chalk pastels on PastelMat paper or oils on hand stretched cotton Study Detail

canvas, depending on the predilections of the artist. Portraits can take between two weeks to 6 months to complete.

Her practice is ever-evolving as she discovers new surfaces, techniques and materials, and captures individuals from every walk of life. In the coming year, she hopes to expand her personal portfolio and practise painting entirely from life without photographic aid, as well as start private tutoring for those who want to improve their drawings skills. She plans on entering the BP Awards later this year with her portrait of Dilys Price OBE and complete a Masters degree in Fine Art.

Freya

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WIRE ARTIST

SADIE AUCOTT

SADIE AUCOTT ‘When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.’ - A D Williams Sadie lives and works in the beautiful South Hams, Devon and the need to be creative has been part of her life for as long as she can remember. It started with a desire to develop her passion for drawing, which eventually led to experimentation with digital photography, via The Open College of the Arts, which opened up a fascination with exploring colours and form via macro/still life photography.

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inspired by wire sculpting. Following a ‘light bulb’ moment, over a period of time, she developed a system of working with fine gauge florists binding wire in order to create 2D images which also encapsulated her love of drawing. By experimenting, Sadie combined freeform weaving/ knotting/twisting of the wire in order to create definition and shading and is continually developing her technique.

Sadie generally uses black/grey binding wire and depending on the atmospheric conditions surrounding the piece, some parts of the wire take Sadie wanted to experiment further on a more ‘sepia’ tone or patina as the with different mediums and was wire oxidises.

Each piece takes a number of months to complete due to the nature of the medium, size and technique, and once completed, they are finally mounted on a bare white canvas, then framed in black, in order to reflect the emotive monochrome nature of the finished piece.

Sadie is inspired by the amazing work and dedication of wildlife conservationists and animal charities around the world, and in some small way she hopes at the start of each project to create a piece of wire art which evokes an emotional connection between the viewer and the subject and encourages the viewer to see ‘a living being’, ‘a friend’ and to ‘feel their soul’.

This ethos is carried through to her commissions.

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and experimenting.

Innovation Award.

In 2018, Sadie was selected as one of the finalists in the IN:SIGHT 2018 Exhibition at Castle Fine Art, Washington Green, Manchester.

In 2019, her ‘Lion’ piece was selected to be included in the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2019 online-exhibition.

Her Gorilla, Elephants, Eagle and Lion pieces were all selected for the exhibition and she felt very privileged to be the winner of the

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Red Kite

Sadie donates a percentage of the profit from her work to various animal charities as a small but heartfelt thank you for their amazing work.

She is drawn to nature, animals and people as subjects and enjoys the juxtaposition of organic subject material captured using an industrial man-made material. She feels that she has now found her medium, subjects and personal mission statement and is excited to continue developing

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Lion

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TEXTILE ARTIST

HELEN MACRITCHIE

HELEN MACRITCHIE Helen originally qualified as a research scientist working within the pharmaceutical industry, but while living abroad for 17 years in Europe and then Australia, she decided to change course and follow an artistic path. She embarked upon City & Guilds courses by correspondence in stitched textiles and embroidery and has never looked back. She creates her textile art from her studio in Oxfordshire, splitting her life and work between the UK and the sunshine of Australia.

Her work explores personal connections to the landscape, her ancestry and the scientific world, focussing upon the detail and colour found in nature

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and science. She draws from her years in the pharmaceutical industry and life overseas for inspiration and metaphorical representation.

Her design work is abstract in nature, using mark making techniques and allowing motif creation to develop from drawing and printing research.

She employs textural detail and colour to share significant impressions and emotions with her audience.

Her work is generally based on hand dyed and wet felted wool, adding other fibres such as silk and cotton with embroidery, both by free motion machine and by hand, to create 2D layered textural surfaces or 3D

Carlton Hill

sculptural works. The organic transformation of wool fibre into wool felt by hand is an important aspect of her work process; the versatility of this medium allows her to create a delicate work with movement and translucency or one with structure and depth as the design dictates.

Since 2016 she has been exhibiting her art in Australian regional galleries with Untethered Fibre Artists and more recently with Prism Textiles in the UK. These groups have given

HELEN MACRITCHIE

Aniline

focus to her practice and allowed her to develop conceptual pieces that reach a wider audience.

Her piece, Revealing Pathways, recently won the 3D category of the Emerging Artist Award at Creates Gallery. It was created in response to the challenges of relocation into the unknown and her feelings of disconnection on arrival back in the UK after many years overseas.

On a similar theme, the travelling cloak of Hidden Connections pieces fragments of nuno felt and ordnance survey map together.

These denote collective personal memories in an arrangement

reminiscent of the British countryside from an aerial viewpoint.

Aniline is a felt lace hanging, and looks at the fragility and complexity surrounding mental health issues.

It employs a phenol ring motif as scientific representation of the indigo blue pigment in denim amidst a net of felt lace. It incorporates motifs of latex; a synthetic material certainly not routinely associated with wool felting. The mix of unexpected materials is something Helen finds appealing.

Taking the Air and Breathtaking are both concerned with air quality and the associated recurring health issues such as asthma. Microscopic examinations of allergenic particles, like pollen particles and mould spores were the inspiration behind these pieces. Despite both being created from wool felt, their structure and hand are quite different; such is the versatility of the wet felting process.

Helen is also a member of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild and CraftNSW in Australia, exhibiting there frequently with her embroidered felted handbags.

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Hidden Connections

Breathtaking

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ART GALLERY

CREATES GALLERY

CREATES GALLERY, MONMOUTH Our Fine Art gallery on Church Street, Monmouth, sees regular arrivals of both new artists and new works by our resident artists. In 2019 there was much more interest in larger paintings than previous years, so with this mind, we are now shifting our focus to adding a larger collection of investment pieces by well-established artists and makers. With the opening of our gallery, coffee shop and B&B just a few doors down, we are separating our fine art from affordable art across our venues.

Instead of themed exhibitions, we plan to update our works regularly with interesting unique pieces by our represented artists.

The gallery will continue to feature our resident gallery favourites, including; Pat Handley, Kip Kavallares, Warren

Day, Doug Eaton, Paul Burgess, Nik Burns, Claire Lovell, Mark Beresford, Deborah Harrison, Melanie CormackHicks, Pierre Williams, Monique Oliver, Valerie James, and Steven Outram RBA. And we always look to support local artists and makers. The works will cover a range of disciplines that include Fine Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Glass, and Jewellery by master Jeweller Paul Hatton.

Our current featured artist is Annica Neumiller, whose abstract works are both delicate and powerful and present a constant tension between chaos and order.

All works are available on the Collectorplan Scheme through the Arts Council Wales. Through this plan, you can purchase original works of art at either of our galleries in

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Monmouth and spread the cost interest-free up to 12 months, from as little as ÂŁ10 a month. To find out more, please visit the website or contact Creates Gallery, Monmouth.

Stay up to date with gallery news, join our mailing list via our website www.createsgallery.com and for new works by our resident artists, find us online. www.createsgallery.com/monmouth Facebook & Instagram - @createsgallery info@createsgallery.com

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On the 4th January, 2020, we opened our brand new sister gallery in Church Street, Monmouth. The opening night was a busy one, as it was also the launch of the Emerging Artist Award Exhibition. You can read about the three winners on pages 6-13.

The new venue is a beautiful art gallery combined with a coffee shop where you can enjoy hot and cold beverages, mouth-watering cakes and order from our delicious brunch and lunch menu (gluten-

free, vegan and vegetarian options are available) - our new menu can be found on our website.

If you are visiting Monmouth and would like to stay overnight, we have 8 beautifully decorated rooms for you to choose from, which you can book through Airbnb.

This venue replaces our Forest of Dean based galleries at The Dean Heritage Centre and Taurus Crafts.

Our new exhbition started on the 11th February and features some

of our favourite local artists as well as some new artists that were featured in the Emerging Artist Award Exhibition.

We are open 10-3pm Tuesday to Thursday, and 10-4pm on Friday and Saturday, and we welcome groups who wish to have their meetings in the gallery too.

Check the website for regular events, and an evening menu coming in March. createsgallery.com/coffee-shop 7 Church St, Monmouth, NP25 3BX 01600 460492 FB: @createscafe

16 CONTEMPORARY GLASS ARTIST STEPHANIE ELSE

STEPHANIE ELSE Stephanie Else is an award-winning artist who creates vibrantly beautiful glass artworks using a variety of kiln forming techniques.

Taking inspiration from the everchanging elements of nature, she combines surface texture, pattern and colour to create beautifully tactile pieces which shift with the light throughout the day.

Masquerade

The Green Wave

Seeking to exploit the natural translucent and jewel-like qualities the glass possesses, she is fascinated by the enigma of the glass itself - never quite knowing what a finished piece will look like when it comes out of the kiln.

As a self-taught artist, Stephanie’s journey with glass has been exciting and often challenging. She is forever experimenting with colour and design, whilst constantly exploring new techniques and ideas. She relishes the challenges that glass as a medium throws at her and finds that her best work often comes about by chance.

Awarded the Stone International Art Prize in 2019, Stephanie was also a finalist in the 2018 London Contemporary Art Prize, and more recently the Creates Emerging Artist Award 2020.

As well as exhibiting her work both nationally and internationally, Stephanie has also completed

numerous commissioned pieces and interior design projects. She particularly enjoys working to commission and interacting with clients to design and create their own bespoke pieces. stephanie@glassinfusion.co.uk www.glassinfusion.co.uk FB: @glassinfusion.co.uk IG: @glassgirl.uk

Violet in Aqua

TIA LAMBERT

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TIA LAMBERT

Evening Light

Ridgeway Walk

Frost on The Ridgeway

Tia Lambert is a landscape painter who lives on the slopes of the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.

With a love of wild flowers and inspired by natural forms in the landscape, whether it be frothy white cow parsley or tracks that wind along the ridgeway, Tia works outside directly from the landscape whenever possible, injecting a fresh contemporary feel to her paintings, whilst using traditional techniques.

Also known locally for her watercolours, Tia begins by drawing with ink, brush, dip pen and bamboo pen, followed by loose energetic application of watercolour. Strong flowing lines and subtle wet on wet washes that have a life of their own, combine to produce lively images capturing the essence of, and ever changing weather on, her subjects.

Originally from London, Tia completed a Fine Art degree at Farnham in 1979, followed by an Art Teacher’s certificate at Brighton. Three more years were spent as a post graduate student at the Royal Academy Schools in London, before moving to Malvern in 1985. A popular tutor at Malvern Hills College for the last twenty three years, Tia teaches watercolour and drawing. She has exhibited widely in England and abroad, including the Royal Academy Summer Show and Mall Galleries and produces a range of prints, cards and calendars.

Tia’s vibrant oil paintings show a love of strong colour and a fascination with the transformation of landscape by light at different times of day, and throughout the changing seasons. A sense of distance and rhythms that run through the landscape are also important and paint is often applied quite thickly with a palette knife.

Happiest when out in nature, Tia has recently taken up river swimming, total immersion!

Cow Parsley

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ALEX WADDELL

ALEX WADDELL Alex Waddell is an English Sculptor and Stonemason based in South Wales. Alex trained as an apprentice at Winchester Cathedral and has worked in heritage for 3 years. He learned a range of traditional skills, as well as building conservation using mortar repairs and pinning and shelter coating.

He now works predominantly in stone and wood, using traditional

A Bird in the Hand

Buster Memorial

techniques and historic styles. decorative ornaments for both garThrough his work he explores ideas of den and the home. shared cultural heritage and identity.

Alex produces individual sculptures as well architectural features and

God the Father

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Empty Barrels Rattle Loudest

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CHRIS BROOK Originally from Yorkshire, Chris now lives on the east coast in the Scottish Borders, is self taught and has been working as a professional artist since 1995.

Harbour town

Croft

Fusing both traditional and selfdiscovered painting and printmaking techniques, he tries to create pieces which possess a tangible and tactile quality.

His subjects are predominantly landscape driven, influenced by his surroundings, the proximity of where land meets sea, and a recurring theme of containment.

His work is not intended to be site specific, instead the paintings are reconstructed ideals, a collection of marks and shapes to suggest a narrative, alluding to the type of place he would like to find.

The theme of containment is echoed further through naive imagery, depicting boundary walls, furrowed

fields, crop rotations and fence rails. He scratches directly into the work to offer a method of permanent mark making, over layered painterly surfaces.

Chris says to be immersed within a landscape is not only to be aware of a sensory visual, but also to be accepting of, and experience the visceral and elemental qualities which bind the

Night Fields III

S h e p h e r d ’s Wa r n i n g

surroundings together. The relentless extreme of the seasons blend millennia of formation, both natural and man made, often disguising how our landscape is flawed. Chris has attempted to emulate these qualities through a sequence of layering and over painting. Then scraping away surfaces to reveal the partially hidden to suggest traces of former occupancy, and to define the act of permanence through mark making, taking on the form of an intuitive, scored noncorrective line.

A personal, reflective, landscape emerges, a reinvented retreat, which conveys protection, comfort and shelter. chrisbrook1@googlemail.com www.chrisbrook-artworks.co.uk

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EILEEN WAYCOTT

EILEEN WAYCOTT From her studio on the borders of the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean, Eileen has naturally spent many years being influenced by the natural world around her. The shadows, reflections, colours, patterns and textures in both the natural and man-made environment are the source of all her inspiration.

Using the many techniques gained from a City and Guilds course in Surface Design and Embroidery and from her own further exploration of her craft, Eileen dyes and prints on paper and fabric using both synthetic and natural methods. Plant, rust and teas feature heavily in her work with the additional

making, there are two or three layers of fabric pieced and stitched together, but unlike a traditional quilt, this technique lets the colours and shapes in the dyed fabric to influence the final piece without being confined in a traditional pattern.

With these techniques, Eileen also makes altered books and journals.

Each piece of work, whether it is a quilt, card, postcard or book, is unique. The techniques used can be random and although a theme or colour scheme may repeat, no two works will ever be exactly the same.

e.waycott@btinternet.com www.gardenshedtextiles.com IG: @garden_shed_textiles use of recycled packaging and papers to print with and also fabrics and lace to give texture. These papers and found objects are also used to layer and stitch.

Initially appearing to be abstract, a closer look at her pictures reveals images hidden behind the disintegrated top layer. Using photographs, torn and collaged papers for the top layer as well as the whole image in the background, the layers are then machine and hand stitched together to blend both the images and techniques.

Eileen also makes art quilts, using a deconstructed technique that uses the minimum of stitching with torn edges and visible seams. Like traditional quilt

LES LEES

WOOD SCULPTURE

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LES LEES Throughout the 1970/80s, Les exhibited his work in a variety of single and group exhibitions, including a one man show at the Zella Gallery in New Orleans, and the PMC exhibition at the Barbican, London.

In the late 1980s, Les began work in art education, culminating in 2011 when he retired from the post of Faculty Director for Creative Industries at Bournemouth and Poole College.

Since retirement, Les has worked with a wide range of mediums and techniques.

This past year he has concentrated on Small Fish

Positive and Negative

Flatiron

making sculptures, with the emphasis on using reclaimed timber, giving it a new lease of life. His aim is to create objects which are ergonomically pleasing and tactile. Sculptures for the hand which, to assist with balance and give weight, are imbedded with lead. He also incorporates gold and silver leaf along with the Japanese technique of wood

burning “shou sugi ban” which provides a rich black texture to the sculpture.

Les’s desired outcome is to create objects which are not only visually desirable in shape and form, but also pleasing to the touch. Having originally been discarded ‘wood pallets on a building site’ they bring with them a variety of colour and surface texture, which cannot be found in sterile new wood from a timber yard.

From sixty pallets, in the past year Les has produced a body of work (including craft items) and exhibited works at the Emerging Artist Award exhibition at Creates Gallery in January 2020. Numerous pieces have been gifted or purchased and are in collections in the UK and USA. He will be opening his studio for visitors during The Dorset Arts Weeks 2020.

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ARTIST

PETE BRYDEN

PETE BRYDEN Pete is an abstract artist working mainly with acrylic paints on canvas.

When he starts to work on one of his current Series 2 paintings, he selects the colours that he intends to work with and then launches in with no more of a plan than the simple fact that he intends to create a painting.

Pete is passionate about his art and he is enthralled by the journey that it’s been taking him on.

When he isn’t painting, Pete is enjoying the country life with his wife Helen, two young daughters and an eclectic selection of pets in rural Herefordshire, on the Welsh border.

Series 2 Number 8

imagination. He quite often finds himself compelled to add little highlights with a palette knife and brushes, and some areas may take on a loosely recognisable form.

Series 2 Number 11

Working mainly with palette knives, he also uses pads and sponges, adding more paint here and there when the painting requests it. Pete also adds texture in places, using a knife to cut into the paint layers.

During this stage, it feels like he is gradually getting to know the painting – becoming acquainted with it. Then, at some point, the painting reaches the stage whereby it’s ready to be consciously steered. It’s usually at a time when some sort of form has begun to emerge, fuelling his

Series 2 Number 15

Series 2 Number 6

If you would like to check on the availability of any of these paintings, or others listed on Pete’s website, please feel free to drop him a line. pete@petebryden.co.uk www.petebryden.co.uk FB: @petebrydenart IG: @petebrydenart

SALLY ANNE WAKE JONES

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SALLY ANNE WAKE JONES

Under The Oak Tree: Looking Ahead

Sally Anne, assisted by her husband Peter, has worked on canvases to create a unique collection of paintings portraying the historic parkland of Windsor Great Park, in its varying moods throughout the seasons.

This has meant weekly visits to the park to paint en plein air. She immerses herself in the fabric of the place: the changing weather; the character of the trees; the cycle of life and decay and the flat,

Hung With Bloom Along The Bough

The Friendship Trees

‘Bare Boughs Which Shake Against The Cold...’

wide landscape. To create these impressions, she has painted large spontaneous statements infused with light.

In naming these paintings, she sometimes selects titles that reflect the spiritual quality of the park. It is a parkland of oaks; a tree symbolic of divine providence; a sacred tree used by ancient prophets - “oaks of righteousness growing up together towards the light.”

Sally Anne and Peter are frequent visitors to the South of France, and the intense light of that region has influenced the bold use of colour and scintillating light effects seen in the work.

Sally Anne had some formal art training at a London University College Of Education. After pursuing a career in teaching, she set up her own tuition business, which later

developed - with the help of her two daughters - into the publishing house Guinea Pig Education, which sells educational material all over the world.

She has always had a passion for painting. Sally Anne had her first solo exhibition at the Century Gallery, Henley Upon Thames, and has subsequently showed her work in various galleries in the south of England and online. Her work has featured in three editions of R.E.G.A.R.D, a French art catalogue.

In the summer of 2019, her work was shown at the La Galleria, Pall Mall, London. Currently, she has a solo exhibition at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. sallyannewakejones@hotmail.com www.sallyannewakejones.co.uk FB: @sallyannewakejonesartist IG: @sallyannewakejones_artist

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ARTIST

LYNN KEDDIE

LYNN KEDDIE Lynn Keddie is a fine artist based in Frome, Somerset.

Before moving there, she lived in Wiltshire for 20 years.

This part of the world is filled with wonderful scenery and stunning skyscapes.

As part of her daily routine, she walks her dogs through the beautiful countryside of Somerset and Wiltshire and visits the rugged coastline of Cornwall regularly to work. Her paintings show a keen observation of colour and evoke the energy of a place. Taking all of her ideas and memories, she returns to her studio at The Silk Mill in Frome to paint using oils or acrylics. Paintings over paintings with layers of glorious colour. Lines, marks and texture all reveal a story.

Lynn has been a professional flower and garden photographer for 20 years, and in 2009 she came back to painting. Now, she creates contemporary artworks inspired by the colours and shapes of nature and the changing seasons. They are influenced by, but not copied from, the images captured Collectors of her paintings all through her lens for so many comment that they evoke a years. sense of joy. The colours of nature dance on each canvas inviting you to imagine your own story.

Reasons to be Cheerful

She has exhibited widely and her work is in private collections in Massachusetts, Vancouver, Spain and the UK.

January, St Ives

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Winter, will pass

VICTORIA KEEBLE

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VICTORIA KEEBLE

Victoria has drawn since she was a child, always fascinated by the shapes and patterns of animals and birds and putting the unusual together creating quirky associations. Originally training as a textile designer at Falmouth School of Art she worked in the industry for the United Turkey Red Company.

In the 1980s she studied printmaking at Hereford College of Art and more recently at West Dean College and the Sidney Nolan Trust.

Since becoming a printmaker her work has become more illustrative, incorporating her love of pattern and texture, stylisation and fluidity of line, which have always been important elements in her designs. Her subject matter is often influenced by classic legends, sometimes sparked by a poem or fairy tale, a chance remark or just ‘out of the blue’; and still typically featuring natural forms including animals, birds and mythical beasts.

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Victoria uses several printmaking techniques including: etching, screenprinting, collagraph, wood engraving and linocut to create her exquisite limited edition work.

She has been a member of the Hay Makers (www.haymakers.co.uk), a cooperative of local designer makers based in Hay-on-Wye, since its inception in 1987, and her work is in private collections throughout Europe and also in Australia, Canada and the U.S.A.

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JENNIE BLUNT Jennie is now further developing her observational skills by focusing on still life as a subject. Working in a furniture recycling shop has given her the opportunity to select and purchase interesting items to use in her compositions. She intends to secure an art studio space in 2020 with the view to accepting commissions and starting her journey as a professional artist.

Jennie is an artist specialising in portraiture and she is fascinated with the sentimental value of the objects we possess. She aspires to create artwork which records the moment or nostalgic quality of the person or object it depicts.

Since graduating from art college in 2013, Jennie has relocated to the Forest of Dean, married the love of her life and become a mother.

Despite these life events taking precedence in her life, the dream of becoming a professional artist has never diminished and in 2019 her creativity returned.

drawnbyjennieb@hotmail.com IG: @drawnbyjennieb Jennie is inspired by her family and friends, and she paints when she feels compelled to. Her self portrait, ‘Blur of Motherhood’ (January 2019), was the catalyst for the subsequent body of work produced that year.

Her fundamental skills lie in drawing, although when painting, she chooses to use gouache, as the paint can be diluted or applied directly from the palette and is easily manipulated.

Jennie’s style is not entirely realistic, however, she feels her work is successful if she can personally look at a painting and recognise who the sitter was.

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ANNE BATE-WILLIAMS With Dali and the psychologist Carl Jung as crucial influences on Anne’s outlook and art, she uses the juxtaposition of images as a way of communicating her emotional response to places and things.

production process. She is particularly keen to ensure her work is shared as widely as possible through innovative use of social media and the publication of limited edition prints.

Anne has been greatly inspired by her recent travels to Myanmar, The Holy Land, India and Kenya, as well as trips to beautiful locations closer to home.

The inspiration for The Cave came from Myanmar, A View from Masada from her travels to Israel and Pen y Fan is a picturesque mountain in the Brecons in Wales.

The unusual beauty of things that are falling down or in decay can speak deeply of the joy of what has passed or the anticipation of resurrection.

Anne sometimes uses photographs and mixed media, often fragments of images, to develop a piece which grows naturally out of her personal

A View from Masada II

The Cave

Recently Anne has been exploring her roots in the west of Ireland (her father was born in County Limerick).

This has given her a new perspective, in appreciating how her origins, her interests and passions, and her love for family inspires her Art – creating a picture of their own that she is now beginning to see… as if for the first time.

Anne will be exhibiting at the Red Dot in Painswick, 4th to 17th March 2020 and at the Gardens Gallery in Cheltenham 8th to 14th April with Simon Howe and Molly Abbott.

view and experience of a place. These images of things which have their own reality and message in their own time, resonate with our own experience and feeling in the ‘here and now’. These fragments, strangely familiar, can appear like magical mirrors where we can glimpse our own future.

Anne’s art is developmental, extending existing skills (such as ceramics) and at the same time exploring new means of expression. Collagraphic techniques – in building and overlaying images and materials – enable her to adopt an evolutionary approach to the artistic

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IAN COLEMAN

IAN COLEMAN As a child, Ian was always drawing animals and in his mid-twenties he saw the paintings of tuna by Stanley Meltzoff in a National Geographic Magazine, and that planted the seed of wanting to be an artist.

last 12 years, and as a balance to the studio time Ian teaches art to adults throughout the year, specialising in techniques for oil, acrylics and drawing.

Hereford Bull

Now living in Ross-on-Wye, Ian is inspired by all kinds of local wildlife and artistic styles and is busy working towards a new show for 2021.

His bestselling print is of the Hereford Bull, which is an original Nurse Shark acrylic painting. Commissions for Ten years later, he was learning oil paintings of foreign and local to scuba dive, and he decided to wildlife have kept him busy for the leave his full time job as a graphic designer and illustrator and become a wildlife artist.

The Nurse Shark painting (above) was created from his personal experiences of collecting references and ideas from around the world.

Two BBC books have featured Ian’s shark illustrations as well as being a regular illustrator for the BBC wildlife magazine.

Speckled Sheep

Snowy Egret

When he’s not painting, Ian is creating concept art and teaching digital illustration and online learning courses.

For more information see Ian Coleman’s Art Courses Facebook page.

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BLUE GINGER GALLERY

28th March to 7th May

Burst into spring with an exhibition celebrating ‘Jungle’ and all that’s wild and vibrant, dark and mysterious.

An exhibition of new work for sale by prestigious British artists.

Julia Manning

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Ta m s i n A b b o t t

Artists include: Tamsin Abbott Julia Manning Hannah Willow Clare DeLaTorre Nigel Lambert Jo Verity Claudia Petley and Paul Shepherd Eleanor Bartleman Elly Mental Kathleen Murphy Rachel Larkins Jo Dewar Henrietta Corbett Sarah Brooker Pratima Kramer Michaela McMillan Kat Christou Carey Moon Jeanne Jackson Rae Stevens

You can meet the artists on the 28th March 2020 between 1pm to 4pm. www.blue-ginger.com Blue Ginger Gallery, Cradley, Malvern, Herefordshire WR13 5NW 01886 880240 Michaela McMillan

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JUDITH MALAN

JUDITH MALAN

Judith’s journey as an artist began that she receives when a student on the banks of the Shashi River, in grabs courage to extend themselves Botswana, in July 1954. to overcome their own fears, is indescribable.

Growing up around beautiful wild animals, and amongst gentle, patient, Judith’s favourite mediums are kind African people, has enriched detailed pencil drawings showing her vision, and her philosophy of spiritual affiliations, and her love life. Which is to seek peace, and of God and His Holy Word, and oil the beauty of light each day, in the and watercolour artworks which people around her, and especially detail interactions of colour. She in the landscapes of wherever she has learned from Josef Albers, and happens to be, at any given point. design: and she loves the interaction of mathematics and technology for Judith is passionate about history, purity of angles and line. Here, the music, and encouraging people influence of her amazingly capable to achieve their own optimum stepfather has the most accolade. He best. This has led her to become a tutored her with unceasing patience, more maverick, yet insightful, and and kind directions. courageous teacher. The sheer joy

Judith loves focusing on the play of light as the crux of each piece of work. But playing with the sudsy texture of papier mache, as a medium for three-dimensional works is also a firm favourite.

As a late Emerging Artist, Judith is enthralled by each aspect of the processes that are still in daily operation in the sculpting of her continued development. And, being largely self-taught, at this point, there are always aspects of improvement, in which she now relishes.

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