Claerwen Holland, 25 Years

Claerwen Holland 7 – 24 September 2021

Claerwen Holland 7 – 24 September 2021

Abereiddy Beach ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 41 x 47cm

Claerwen Holland 25 Years

7 – 24 September 2021 PREVIEW DAYS Thursday 2 September: 12-6 Friday 3 September: 12-6 Saturday 4 September: 11-4 The entire exhibition can also be viewed at www.thackeraygallery.com All work is available to purchase on receipt of this catalogue

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COLOURS IN A WICKER BASKET by Jennifer Holland

1 Here is an old grey house in Wales Whose flowery surroundings and growing green things Clamour to be brought inside Tenderly ordered in pots or, once inside, Be grouped in painted jugs, And glass vases and burnished copper containers.

All trembling with life, entreating permanence, They beckon to be joyously coloured By the dusty stacks of jumbled pastels, Boxed up in their wicker basket.

Follow perhaps, the china dogs, The birds eggs, the chairs and the books: The books, and the garden, so essential to the spirit That invite their owner’s new- found immersion in the Eden garden awaiting…

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II Choose your book from the old epics of romance and adventure That absorbed a youth-times hunger for experiences to come, And the homely beguiling of tales, Never quite grown out of and coloured in With the first -discovered joy of chalked improvements.

III Take your book into the garden, Past the just–glimpsed kitchen, Leave the waiting desk at the end of the passage With its promise of unfinished business, But pause a moment, for the respite of a worn armchair to savour the tantalizing engrossing books, And the pleasure to come of the garden, Suggested by the sun-filled windows With their awaiting discoveries of new life.

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Dragon Fruit ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 26 x 26cm

John’s Tomatoes ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 26 x 26cm

Cherries Outside ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 27 x 27cm

Crab Apples ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 26 x 26cm

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Aga with Ladle ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 47 x 62cm

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Iris on the Kitchen Table ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 47 x 62cm

Summer Window ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 47 x 68cm

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Strawberries & Blackcurrants ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 24 x 23cm

Welsh Poppies & Camassias ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 22 x 22cm

Yellow Hellebore ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 26 x 25cm

China Dog ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 26 x 26cm

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Rambler Rose ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 60 x 80cm

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Books II ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 47 x 42cm

A Bowl of Hazelnuts on Books ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 39 x 51cm

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Books I ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 48 x 68cm

Pink Table ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 50 x 65cm

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Yellow Table and Blue Egg ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 60 x 80cm

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Blossom and China Dogs ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 50 x 65cm

Hellebores and Bright Tulips ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 42 x 47cm

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Narcissus ink, pastel & charcoal paper – 60 x 80cm

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Chair with Bird Cushion ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 21 x 20cm

New Apple Tree ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 65 x 50cm

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Three Pots by the Window ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 39 x 50cm

Hips from a Rambler Rose ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 51 x 65cm

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Daily Post ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 60 x 80cm

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Anemones and Grape Hyacinths ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 19 x 18cm

Quails Eggs ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 18 x 19cm

Parrot Tulip ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 21 x 22cm

Nasturtiums in a Striped Jug ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 24 x 24cm

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Ranunculus in the Fig Jug ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 47 x 67cm

Gooseberries and Cherries ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 28 x 40cm

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Desk with Tape Measure ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 47 x 68cm

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Moth ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 11 x 16cm

Attic ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 24 x 25cm

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BIOGRAPHY Claerwen Holland was born in Radnorshire, Wales. She studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, under the direction of Maurice de Sausmarez, who awarded her the Principal’s prize for landscapes in oils. She completed the National Diploma for Fine Arts and won The David Murray studentship in landscape painting, awarded by the Royal Academy, London.

Claerwen continues to live and work in both London and Wales.

She is primarily a painter of domestic still lifes and landscapes; the kitchen gardens of Wales or sandy beaches of the British coast. She is inspired by the objects which surround her at home in Wales; freshly picked flowers from her garden, china ornaments, old toys and secret boxes. Claerwen has also found inspiration in and around Aberystwyth, capturing the comings and goings of people and everyday life, in a touching and beautifully observed way.

Claerwen has exhibited in many mixed shows, including the Royal Academy Exhibition and the New English Arts Club, and has had solo exhibitions in England and Wales.

Claerwen Holland has been exhibiting with Thackeray Gallery since 1996, making this her 25th Year with us.

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Upstairs Window – ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 48 x 68cm

Front Cover: Strawberries & Blackcurrants – ink, pastel & charcoal on paper – 24 x 23cm

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