THE
GRANTBRADLEYmagazine
ISSUE #2
APRIL2012
END OF THE LAND INDOORS OUTDOORS JAN WILLEM VAN WELZENIS
31 MARCH 28 APRIL APRIL 2012 EXHIBITIONS AT THE GRANT BRADLEY GALLERY 1 St Peter’s Court Bedminster Parade Bristol BS3 4AQ Open Mon-Sat 10-5 T. 0117 9637 673 W. grantbradleygallery.co.uk E. info@grantbradleygallery.co.uk
INTRODUCTION We are delighted to present our exhibitors for the month of April 2012. With an emphasis on colour being the main theme, we feel that this will make for an invigorating experience to coincide with the change in season. As always, The Grant Bradley Gallery has stuck with it’s ethos to showcase a wide range of artistic disciplines, consciously choosing not to limit itself with a particular ‘house style’. Again, this exhibition supports local as well as international artists which will run throughout the month of April. CONTENTS End of the land .......................... Pages 1-5 Indoors Outdoors .................... Pages 6 - 11 Jan willem Van Welzenis ....... Pages 12 - 13
END OF THE LAND My new body of work is inspired by two particular ‘ends of the land’: the Isles of Orkney and St. Ives. During the late autumn and early winter of 2011 I journeyed by ‘plane to land upon Orkney’s remote and open landscape: rusts, pinks, oranges, strong greens, and at the end of every view, the ever-changing sea. Sheepskins, hand-made felt, wools of every texture and hue: I was beguiled and drawn-in. There was an atmosphere of calm and peacefulness. A few weeks later, I boarded the local St.Ives train as it clung to the hillside and rattled into Porthminster. Winter had cleared away the crowds and the wild winds whipped the sea into spirals of turquoise and lilac. Colours calling out from every aqua shutter, pink door and lime green window-ledge, then more persistently from the ‘New Abstractions’ at the Tate and the ghosts of Heron, Blow, Lanyon et al. I was re-invigorated by the sweeping-away of the old, and the ushering in of the new. Angie is an experienced painter who works from her studio at BV Studios, Bedminster, Bristol. During the last few years she has exhibited widely in galleries and shows in London and Oxford, as well as three times in the New Gallery, RWA, Bristol.
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Top: ‘Sea, Sky, Land’ Acrylic on wood £150 Left: ‘Painted Land’ Acrylic on wood £150
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Left: ‘Viewpoint’ Acrylic on wood £150
Top: ‘Winter Light I’ Acrylic on canvas £395
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INDOORS OUTDOORS Indoors Outdoors is an exhibition by artist David C Johnson. Over the past two years David has been exploring the landscape of England as inspiration for his colourful impressions of scenes remembered. These are completed in oils and acrylics in his studio on Stokes Croft, Bristol. He has also continued his interest in creating figurative works, where the model is set in a domestic scene that invites the viewer to explore the narrative within the composition. David’s etchings use several techniques including drypoint, aquatint, sugar-lift and photo-polymer. These small-scale prints are limited editions that mainly feature the world outdoors from Istanbul to Nantucket and from Somerset to Spain. David has had his work selected and hung at the RWA and at various small galleries in the South West.
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‘Redcliffe Back’ Acrylic and charcoal on canvas £350
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‘Nantucket’ Acrylic on canvas £600
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‘Friday morning at Jenny’s’ Acrylic on canvas board £220
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‘It’s busy in the studio’ Mixed media £255
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JAN WILLEM VAN WELZENIS At his UK dĂŠbut, Dutch artist Jan Willem van Welzenis exhibits seven of his powerful abstract drawings. His stay in Bristol has been a theater for artistic experience. Jan Willem is devoted to creating new forms from the things he perceives. The way he leads the pencil, is an outburst of expression. Colourful scribbles and thick black lines exceed each other on the paper, the result being a dynamic and in a way lyrical work of art.
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‘Woman combing her hair’ Lino cut, wax crayon, charcoal and oil stick £250
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