Pathway to Painting
Exhibiters Rodger Williams
Nicola Brooke
Jane Andrew
Clarissa Fonseca
Sally Grindley
L o r i Te b b u t t
Susie Harding
C h a r l o t t e L a To u c h e
Jocelyn Rymer Gilfoyle
Anna Simson
John Hutton
Daisy Murdoch
Ann Feeney
Front Cover
Susie Harding Spring Into Action info@susieharding.com www.susieharding.com 07554455775
I’m an author, have always been creative, but apart from a few
watercolour classes some years back, I hadn’t picked up a paintbrush since I was 14. With more time on my hands and feeling that I had a reasonably strong visual sense, I was drawn to explore whether I could develop this further. I stuck a tentative toe in the water and, after floundering around for a while, became fully immersed in the challenging, thought-provoking, awe-inspiring world that opens up the minute you pick up a brush and confront a blank canvas.
I joined one of Paul Fowler’s Pathway to Painting groups because I wanted to go much deeper, not just to improve my skillset and learn different techniques, but to find out what makes a good painting, how to express what we feel and see, and how our unique life experiences colour our work. I want to find my own voice – the voice I have as an author and one that is now a work in progress through a brush.
We began as an intimate, mutually supportive group of four in Paul’s studio, where we talked – and talked! – and experimented and took home projects to work on, ready to present the next time we met. When Covid hit, we continued online, six of us now, three hours at a time. It has been and continues to be life-changing, as we each follow our own paths but joined together with the common purpose of expressing ourselves through art. As our facilitator, Paul is truly inspirational.
Sally Grindley
Anna Simson Gesture anna@giraffe-view.com
07970224470
“We were asked to consider scale and what the result might be if relative scales were upset. I thought about a refugee child arriving on a beach, finding an empty shell and being able to take
refuge in it. My painting is called Refuge.”
Sally Grindley Refuge -Realm Of Scale sallygrindley3ct@me.com
07766201102
At the time of the first lockdown the broken tree across the path, spoke to me about change and upheaval.
Ann Feeney Into The Woods waf1405@Hotmail.com
Jocelyn Rymer Gilfoyle White On White jocelyn. gilfoyle@gmail .com 07960561589
John Hutton Untitled John.hutton123@hotmail.com 07879898238
Rodger Williams Longstone rodgerwilliamsone@gmail.com 07921885922
"Piet Mondrian, Toulouse Lautrec, Edvard Munch, Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, Howard Hodgkin, Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, Victor Pasmore and Luke Jerram are greatly admired influences.
Through fast brushwork, layering of saturated colour, I work to explore space, movement, time. Scale, translucency and opacity also fascinate me. Sometimes when glazing and suffusing colour, I hope that it is almost felt before it is seen."
Nicola Brooke Gesture nickymjb@gmail.com
07940856117
Anna Simson Light Sensitive anna@giraffe-view.com 07970224470
John Hutton The Body John.hutton123@hotmail.com 07879898238
A journey through life. The power and purity of love, connecting heaven and earth. Trying to convey feeling and emotion. Influenced by Kandinsky’s aim to communicate a sense of spirituality with a pictorial language to express an inner experience.
Jane Andrew In Another World janeandrew08@gmail.com 07845225080
L o r i Te b b u t t Directing The Show lori @kynance.co.uk
07949061472
This is the latest in a series on vertical slums. As a kid I saw my home city of Manchester, it’s centre smashed in the war, have its remaining terraced streets
levelled by the council. It’s close communities were destroyed and grim tower blocks were imposed to loom over an increasingly bleak landscape. I wanted to try and capture all that in a series of paintings, mostly monochrome. This is the biggest canvas at 1 meter
square.
Rodger Williams No Place Like Home rodgerwilliamsone@gmail.com 07921885922
Sally Grindley H a n d , Ey e a n d H e a r t sallygrindley3ct@me.com
07766201102
John Hutton In Another World 2 John.hutton123@hotmail.com 07879898238
C h a r l o t t e L a To u c h e Sitting Pretty
Daisy Murdoch Self Portrait daisy_Murdoch@yahoo.co.uk
07970238410
Sally Grindley Light Sensitive sallygrindley3ct@me.com 07766201102
Susie Harding The Wave info@susieharding.com www.susieharding.com 07554455775
Clarissa Fonseca Micro, Miniature clarissafonseca@btinternet.com 07800555927
Jane Andrew In The Jar janeandrew08@gmail.com
07845225080
I was scared of paint and colour. Now I paint everyday and have discovered the utter joy of what colour can do.
Rodger Williams Signified rodgerwilliamsone@gmail.com 07921885922
John Hutton Window John.hutton123@hotmail.com 07879898238
Daisy Murdoch The Conversation daisy_Murdoch@yahoo.co.uk 07970238410
Anna Simson White On White anna@giraffe-view.com 07970224470
Ann Feeney Infinity And Beyond waf1405@Hotmail.com
Clarissa Fonseca Roots 2 clarissafonseca@btinternet.com 07800555927
John Hutton Cobweb 2 John.hutton123@hotmail.com 07879898238
Nature astonishes me, fascinates me, inspires me. 'Autumn trees' there's a hint of alchemy in the way Autumn transposes them, a final burst of vibrant colour. I endeavour to capture a precious moment in
time, energy, colour and atmosphere. Oil on gesso.
Jocelyn Rymer Gilfoyle Autumn Whirlwind jocelyn. gilfoyle@gmail .com 07960561589
Ann Feeney White On White waf1405@Hotmail.com
L o r i Te b b u t t W h a t ' s I n Yo u r B a s ke t lori @kynance.co.uk 07949061472
Jocelyn Rymer Gilfoyle Twists of Colour jocelyn. gilfoyle@gmail .com 07960561589
"I think of myself as a figurative artist, normally using life models as a vital ingredient in my work so this task was
definitely a departure from my usual approach. This painting in oils started as a memory of a dark and narrow school corridor and, using a shot of a flooded and floodlit Venice arcade with the water turned orange by the lighting, I used both memory and photograph to create a strange, hopefully oppressive feeling which I hope will
make the viewer feel both slightly claustrophobic and uncomfortable. As a result of doing this small painting I have decided to do a much larger one using these elements as a basis for a story from a Roman myth".
Susie Harding Signified info@susieharding.com www.susieharding.com 07554455775
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