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Memories,Reality,

Conscious,Subconcious

a collection of etchings, painting & photography plus gifts by Peter Solari

Tuesday 25th August - Saturday 5th September 2020

Opening hours: 11am – 5.30pm

Through my love of the British landscape I try to capture the power and beauty of our surroundings.

Landscape dominates this exhibition (although not entirely) and is represented through my subconscious and conscious response to my surroundings.

 

PRIVATE VIEW: SADLY, CANCELLED DUE TO THE PRESENT SITUATION, HOWEVER, MY WORK CAN BE SEEN ON:
Website: charmainandpete1.wixsite.com/thenandnow
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AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS

by Marion Jones & Chris Lessware

Tuesday 8th - 19th September 2020

Open Daily 11am – 5pm

 

Marion Jones

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Marion is a non-figurative painter, whose paintings are made up of thinly stained and saturated coloured layers. The structure is developed through the divisions of squares and rectangles. Process and intuition also play a decisive role.

She has exhibited in a wide range of venues including the Royal Academy and the Cello Factory and was selected for The London Group Open in 2017 and 2019.
She was long listed for the Jacksons Painting Prize in 2019 and will be taking part in The Beep Painting Biennial in Oct. 2020.

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Selected for The Beep Painting Prize / Biennial 2020 3rd Oct- 7th November 2020 Elysium Gallery Swansea

Chris Lessware

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Chris is a South London artist who has exhibited in a number of different venues and has paintings in a wide number of personal collections.
For more information refer to his website and weekly blog.

www.chrislessware.co.uk

www.blackpaint.wordpress.com

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Where to Next

Tuesday 6th - Saturday 17th October 2020

Open Tuesday - Sunday, 11am – 5pm

This exciting and diverse exhibition is by a group of ladies brought together by their passion for textile art and design. The work ranges from a lively exploration of dynamic colour and pattern through print, dye and stitch to the creation charming caricature dolls.  Work also encompasses personal responses to the Syrian crisis  through dyeing and fabric manipulation.

 

 

Participating Artists:

 

Yvonne Blackmore

Yvonne Wilson

 

I originally trained in glass-making and jewellery-making, and these continue to have an influence on my textile work in my love of transparency and detail. I often use sheer fabrics such as organza for a transparent effect, digitally printed or painted with acrylics and ink.
My work is often inspired by an interest in scientific ideas, especially astronomy and the quantum world which have fascinated me for many years.

 

Sue Owen

Sue Owen

 

I taught Home Economics and Textiles for 30 years , after retirement I started to develop my own body of work. I enjoy the use of colour and texture, often altering fabrics and embellishing with stitch. Pieces may start with dyed or printed fabrics and find their own way into a finished piece. I am a great believer in the ‘happy accident’ and the materials themselves dictating an outcome.
Inspiration comes from many sources including natural forms, graphics and text and ideas drawn from my interest in genealogy.

 

Barbara Christie

 

Now that I have retired, I can revisit my childhood days where one of my favourite books was ‘Things to Make and Do’.  I have since enjoyed many creative courses, workshops and classes, from art to needle felting and from quilting to free motion embroidery.  I now seem to have settled into making dolls inspired by techniques learned from Jill Maas and Suzette Rugulo, I develop my characters from people I know or chance encounters.

I like to give at least one person a day a smile, and as it’s more of a challenge these days wearing face masks, i hope one of my dolls will make that happen instead.

With the encouragement and support from my friends and family, I now find myself exhibiting!

 

Liz Parry

Liz Parry

Following a career teaching special needs I discovered my love of design after studying textiles on a day course at City Lit.  I have since completed a two year advanced textiles course at City Lit culminating at an exhibition at Espacio Gallery in Shoreditch.

I enjoy exploring dynamic pattern and colour through various media such as paper weaving using hand coloured papers.  I combine various printing techniques on paper and fabric including the use of digital print.  I am currently exploring the technique of gelatine printing using paper stencils.  i often use transparent media and combine layers  to create interest and texture.

Inspiration comes from natural forms as well as geometry and graphic imagery.  In this exhibition I am showing embroidered pieces inspired by rocks found on beaches in Devon and seed pods.

 

Ruth Blackford

 

I originally trained in textiles and graduated from Loughborough and Birmingham in the early 90’s.  I have worked as a print and embroidery designer for fashion for a number of years.  More recently, I have enjoyed working across the fields of illustration, printmaking and textile art.

My love of textiles remains strong, with colour, pattern and fabric playing an important role in much of what I do.  I work to commissions as well as on my own projects, exhibit regularly and I also teach a range of art and design subjects in Further Education, and privately too.

 

Annette Herrington

 

My love of embroidery and textiles was inspired by a course at my local adult education college back in the early 90’s, from there I progressed to a BTEC Art Foundation course and ultimately to a BA Hons degree in printed Designs and Surface Decoration at the University of East London.

I have used my skills of varying techniques e.g felting, printing and recently pleating etc, and have exhibited my work at the NEC Birmingham, Tottenham College Cambridge, City Lit London and the Espacio Gallery London.

Yvonne Wilson

 

I have always enjoyed drawing and making things from an early age.  I went to art college and later on I did an HND in Graphic Design at the London College of Printing.  After several years working as a graphic designer, I stopped when I had my children.  During that time I tried to find a place that I could go and explore the world of Textile Art  In 2009 I joined a Textile Art course, taught by Louise Baldwin and there a whole new world was opened up to me.  It has been a great journey and I have learnt so much. Trying to work independently is another challenge, which is why I’m pleased to be part of ‘Where to Next’.  As a group we can support each other as we continue on our creative quest, and now we are holding our fist exhibition!

 

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Just 3

Jacqueline Merry Bernard, Valerie Taylor and Ann Funston

Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th November 2020, 10am to 5pm

Window display until 14th November

Our next exhibition at Sprout Arts welcomes back three of our long standing artists: Valerie Taylor, Ann Funston and Jacqueline Merry Barnard.  A painter, Glassmaker, Sculptor and Felter, coming together for an exhibition complementing each others' work.

This exhibition has been in the making for some time but due to the latest Government rules we will only be able to open Sprout from Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th November from 10am daily.  After that date, you will be able to browse our beautiful window displays and keep up to date with Sprout on social media.

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INSIDE OUT

An exhibition by Amanda Blunden

Tuesday 27th July to Saturday 8th August 2020
Open Monday - Saturday 11am to 5pm

Facebook Live video on Monday at 5pm - visit @amandablundenart

An exciting exhibition of paintings and beautiful paper vessels by Amanda Blunden will be on show in Sprout from Tuesday 27th July to Saturday 8 August. She’ll be there most days between 11am to 5pm - only two people at a time and please wear face coverings.
Amanda lives locally and has exhibited her work in galleries across the country, on TV and in press. "Inspiration comes in many forms. Mine comes mostly from the landscape around me. I love the sea and whilst a part of me wishes I was in a studio overlooking the ocean and rocky shores, I find myself also drawn to more urban landscapes – I do live in London after all!"
Although there will be no member’s Private Views in Sprout at the moment Amanda is hoping to do a special Facebook Live video on Monday at 5pm - visit @amandablundenart pour yourself a glass of something and feel free to ask her any questions!

 

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‘Inspiration comes in many forms. Mine comes mostly from the landscape around me. I love the sea and whilst a part of me wishes I was in a studio overlooking the ocean and rocky shores, I find myself also drawn to more urban landscapes – I do live in London after all!

I love this city. I love its concoction of old and new, beautiful and ugly, colour and grey. I love its history and its stories. Everywhere you go you find something to peer at and wonder. Most of all I love its great arterial river and the Thames features heavily in my work. I like to spend time on its shores and bridges gazing at the life and the soul of its being. When I take photos or make sketches I am looking at those elements that make it so special – the lines, textures and shapes. Through those elements, I want to convey the subtle conflict between the beauty and the brutalism of the landscape and how that makes us feel.

Shapes and form are a big part of my work, as seen in my ‘Vessel’ series. I think a form can breathe a life of its own and exude a distinct feeling. When I look at them I feel comfort and ease but with an edge of something slightly subversive too. 

I’ve also been working on a series – ‘ Faded Memories’ – exploring images from my childhood from holidays and experiences. Planes feature quite strongly and other vehicles but also ‘snaphots’ of moments. I’ve tried to convey the almost rose-tinted, hazy and other-worldly view of those memories through my choice of colours, texture and distressed image transfer from photographs onto painting.’ 

After gaining her Fine Art Honours degree from Leeds in the mid 80s, Amanda has led a varied artistic career. 

Based in SW London, where Amanda lives and works, her work has over the years, been shown in galleries and fairs both in London and nationally; on TV and media including craft and design publications and on fashion designer clothing for high end retailers.

Her work has included public space wall murals, surface pattern design, papier-mâché grandfather clocks, and more recently mixed media printmaking and painting.

Her recent work combines mono-printing and painting. Her mixed media monotype, ‘Night pool’, won the Intaglio Printmakers Prize at the National Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery in September 2017. 

‘City Beach’ another piece won a place at the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition in March 2018 , ‘Vessel 1’ at the 2019 exhibition and again in 2020 with ‘English Winter 1” also at Bankside Gallery. 

Two paintings have been accepted by The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour for their 208th Exhibition at the Mall Galleries to be shown in September 2020.

Amanda has also exhibited locally to her home in South West London, both in solo shows, art fairs and through local group shows in galleries.

 

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