Galleries

A Thousand Kilometres Between Janette Kerr at Slader’s Yard

JANETTE KERR is an experimental contemporary artist whose work explores the boundaries between what is felt and what is seen in wild windswept places. She paints the weather, sea, light and wind, the more energetic the better, working both outside en plein air and in the studio. Her fascination extends to the people who live and have lived in the places she paints. Moving between abstraction and representation, she carries forward the ideas of the 18th Century Romantic Sublime in paintings that embody terrifying thrilling confrontations with nature.

Janette Kerr is known for her paintings of the far North and Arctic. She goes regularly to the Shetland Isles to work. As well as Shetland paintings, this exhibition includes works that have resulted from her time at the Nes International Art Residency, Skagaströnd, NW Iceland in 2020. Numerous collaborative projects with other artists, historians, scientists, and geographers include time spent studying the unpredictability of waves and wind alongside Norwegian oceanographers at the meteorological Institute in Bergen which had a profound influence on her work.

Underpinned by her exceptional drawing skills, Janette’s relish for the physical processes of drawing and painting can be felt in the dynamic quality of her marks and brushstrokes. When not away on a residency, she divides her time between her two studios—one in the West Country near Bath, and the other in Shetland, 200 miles north of Aberdeen and west of Bergen, Norway.

Her work is in national and international public collections including the Maine Maritime Museum, USA; Royal Collection, London; Shetland Arts, Shetland Isles; NorthLink Ferries, Scotland; Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway; Dublin Office of Public Works; RWA Permanent Collection Tallboys Bequest Bristol; Victoria Art Gallery Print Collection, Bath; Grizedale Society, Cumbria and the Colle Verde Art Trust, Tuscany.

This exhibition at Slader’s Yard in West Bay also features work by Dorset based Petter Southall who converted Slader’s Yard. He maintains a permanent changing exhibition here of his furniture and large-scale pieces for the garden.

An exceptional designer craftsman, Petter’s family come from the fjords around Bergen. His furniture designs are inspired by the traditional Oselvar Faerings, boats he made as a young boatbuilder in Norway to designs that reach back through the generations via the Vikings to the Bronze Age. Since 1991 he has been making his distinctive furniture at his studio outside Bridport.

The exhibition continues until 2 July and there is a talk by Janette Kerr on Friday 17 June at 6.30pm. Tickets: £10 or £25 with dinner to follow. For more information visit www.sladersyard.co.uk.

June

GALLERIES

Until 29 May

Living Landscapes Antonia Phillips Paintings exploring Antonia’s enjoyment of working within the landscape, from journeys near and far. Celebrating our amazing British countryside, unique National Parks & glorious Scottish Highlands. Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery, Symondsbury Estate, Bridport DT6 6HG. Open daily 10:30-4:30. Free admission & parking. Contact 01308 301326 www.sousouwest. co.uk.

1 - 19 June

‘Jubilee!’ Mixed Open Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery, Symondsbury Estate, Bridport DT6 6HG. Open daily 10:30-4:30. Free admission & parking. Contact 01308 301326 www.sousouwest.co.uk. A celebratory exhibition to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Visitors are encouraged to create sketches, prints or paintings to display in the Gallery Shop.

1 - 25 June

Unique Framecraft welcomes Marie Blake as guest artist throughout the month of June. Marie will be exhibiting original screenprints under the title ‘Echo and Refrain’, a graphic narrative resurrected by dreams in which an unexplained childhood bereavement has been resolved through the healing processes of drawing, painting and printmaking. Viewing daily from 8.30 am to 4pm at Unique Framecraft, Units 4-5 Millway Rise Workshops, Second Avenue, Axminster. EX13 5HH. Telephone 01297 631614 or 07801 260259. Instagram@ uniqueframecraft.

Until 12 June

Waterline 2022 Contemporary abstract photographs by Lois Wakeman and Tricia Scott of weathered and textured boat hulls. Rotunda Gallery, Lyme Regis Museum, Bridge Street, Lyme Regis DT7 3QA, Tues-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm, www. lymeregismuseum.co.uk. ‘Reflections of Venice: Robert Crisp’ Sou’-Sou’-West Arts Gallery, Symondsbury Estate, Bridport DT6 6HG. Open daily 10:30-4:30. Free admission & parking. Contact 01308 301326 www. sousouwest.co.uk. Robert’s new exhibition at Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery in Symondsbury is the result of five years of study, experimenting with different surfaces, grounds and mediums. Entitled ‘Reflections of Venice’, Robert showcases the culmination of many hours spent sketching and testing colours which would best represent the light and tones of Venice, and striving to capture the atmosphere of the city in a visually recognisable way, but in an abstract style.

Until 16 June

Mixed Spring Exhibition of Gallery and Guest Artists. Returning to normality we hope with an exhibition featuring all our gallery artists including sculptors Johannes von Stumm and Sarah Moore, ceramicist Alison Wear and many paintings and prints from Phillippa Headley, Kim Pragnell, Colin Moore, Ruth Ander, to name but a few. Visitors also welcome outside normal hours by prior appointment. Tincleton Gallery, The Old School House, Tincleton, nr Dorchester, DT2 8QR. Opening / performance times: Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon from 10:00 – 16:00. Tel. 01305 848 909. www.tincletongallery.com.

17 - 23 June

Five go to Lyme exciting exhibition by this diverse quintet of artists: Liz Vonberg, Susan Paradise, Lesley Hook, Alison Summerfield & Lynsey Pickwell. Malthouse Gallery, the Town Mill, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU. www.townmill.org.uk Friday – Thursday 10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.

Until 18 June

AKA Mash P – Photography Exhibition Nathaniel Sesay, aka Mash P, was forced to fight aged 9 in Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war. Later, living on the street, alone with his camera, but supported by WAYout Arts he began taking photographs on the Bume Dirty Box rubbish dump in Freetown where many families scrape an existence. Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport DT6 3NR. Opening hours: 10am - 4pm Tue – Sat.