Rose Gibbon
Everybody Hurts by Rose Gibbon
I am a mature emerging artist, having just completed my degree at Plymouth University. I have spent my life having to do other things, jobs, marriage and children, but always drawn and painted. I now live close to Dartmoor, enclosed and encircled by its intriguing landscape. These paintings are wrought through a negotiation between depiction and abstraction of the surrounding landscapes and my expressive response to that environment. The surrounding landscape of Dartmoor, the rivers falling off to the sea and the changeable and dramatic weather, has resonated with my imagination and passion. I have tried to look past the visual narrative and engage with the intangible ambience of the moors and woods. This, together with the process itself of layering, pouring and manipulating the paint has produced these images.
www.rosegibbonart.co.uk
www.rosegibbonart.co.uk
Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman is a new member of the collective. She has degrees in fine art and textiles, and works in graphic design as well as lecturing in art and design and is an associate member of the Devon Guild. She employs a wide range of media and processes, sometimes painting expressive landscapes, other times focusing upon the detail of everyday life and ephemera as well as recording through drawing, fine art printmaking and at other times using film and photography. “ I love experimenting with colour and to be unpredictable in my approach”
The No Time, No Space, No Place series records life’s everyday complexities, documenting possessions and familiar spaces.
By contrast, the Daydreaming prints escape to happy
memories of childhood and carefree children’s drawings.
The Still Life series that will be exhibited in the xmas show are quiet reflective pieces that try to capture the beauty of the incidental and the commonplace. They are displayed as botanical samples were in the 18th century so as to elevate their position away from the ordinary.
Contact
email.cathybluesky@ btinternet.com
Mobile: 07590 478 043
The No Time, No Space, No Place series records life’s everyday complexities, documenting possessions and familiar spaces.
By contrast, the Daydreaming prints escape to happy
memories of childhood and carefree children’s drawings.
The Still Life series that will be exhibited in the xmas show are quiet reflective pieces that try to capture the beauty of the incidental and the commonplace. They are displayed as botanical samples were in the 18th century so as to elevate their position away from the ordinary.
Contact
email.cathybluesky@ btinternet.com
Mobile: 07590 478 043
Philippa Smith
Intensity by Philippa Smith
I have moved around the world but have come to settle in Devon and to Dartmoor. I have found here inspiration that has inspired generations. I am taken by the colour and the play of light on the constantly changing landscape. I hope to be able to capture a fragment of that in my work. My work is an exploration of colour and I try to capture the vividness in the natural world.
www.philippasmithart.com
www.philippasmithart.com
Sophie Fordham
I am a printmaker with a passion for printmaking that never stops surprising me. I make mono prints that combine different print mediums. Resulting in semi-figurative images that tell my day to day stories. I am interested in how we fit in to our environments, be they emotional, social or physical. Being a mother of two young children and an artist in a small rural village, my work deals with issues of conformity, domesticity and escapism, constraint and freedom, isolation and companionship. In my work I use many layers of images and techniques. To me these represent the constantly enlightening and confusing display of life's ever changing experiences.
www.sophiefordham.co.uk
www.sophiefordham.co.uk
Maggi Squire
My work touches on myth and dream state where figures and animals insist on being painted! I use earth pigments, oil paints and acrylics for paintings and earth painted wall hangings and sometimes make beads and sculptures.
www.maggisquire.com
www.maggisquire.com
Jules Greaves
I am intrigued by the things that people collect or display in their homes. Everyday objects that are so unutterably unattractive or mundane.
Homemaking
I want to elevate the items from just ornaments by intervening in either the way in which they are displayed or by altering them slightly. In doing so, I am playing the role of curator.
Labelling and placing
There is a judgement – social and personal. Am I being cruel?
Making them into something new – altering their meaning/intention?
What am I trying to do? – what do I want my audience to think/feel?
web: http:/web.me.com/julesgreaves/Site
Homemaking
I want to elevate the items from just ornaments by intervening in either the way in which they are displayed or by altering them slightly. In doing so, I am playing the role of curator.
Labelling and placing
There is a judgement – social and personal. Am I being cruel?
Making them into something new – altering their meaning/intention?
What am I trying to do? – what do I want my audience to think/feel?
web: http:/web.me.com/julesgreaves/Site
Laura Hopes
Living next to Dartmoor and within easy reach of the sea, I am drawn inexorably by the challenges of landscape painting. I try to capture an impression or mood in acrylic, oil, chalk or a mixture of media, abstracting, elongating or dreaming the geography or season.
www.laurahopes.com
www.laurahopes.com
If you are interested in the work of the artists featured in our previous shows or if you wish to purchase a piece from a prior exhibition, please contact us in the gallery.
