Here’s another opportunity to see some of the paintings I exhibited in my In Parallel show at Participate Contemporary Artspace last year, plus new paintings and my In Parallel and Entwined book:
The Hive,
5 Belmont, Shrewsbury,
SY1 1TE
24th April to 27th May 2017
Tuesday – Friday from 9AM – 5PM
During the exhibition, I plan to run a Space Explorers workshop from the Hive involving walking and gathering inspiration for creative activity:
Tuesday 23rd May 2017
17:30 – 21:00h
£7 per person. Places are limited so book early please.
Call the Hive on 01743 234970 or see website for further details.
Open to everyone with an interest in using walking to find inspiration and materials for creating art work. No particular artistic ability is required. The workshop will encourage different ways of looking and spontaneity in putting ideas together.
Meet in the Hive Gallery at 5.30pm before setting out on foot into the cosmos.
Some paper and art materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own small sketchbooks, camera or drawing materials.
The walk will last 30-40 minutes, brisk paced over urban terrain, possibly including steps but no climbing. There will be a short break for drinks and light refreshments after the walk and before the art making. You are welcome to bring your own food.
The exhibition will feature some new works including my In Parallel and Entwined book, an oil painting triptych and a polyptych of 9 small mixed media panels.
The fire exit staircase appeared as a motif in the original exhibition. I was struck by its sculptural form and yet its mundane functionality tends to make it “invisible” or easily overlooked.
Rising, oil on canvas triptych, 3 x 300mm x 400mm
The other new work “Pieces” resulted from experiments with combining small scale panels mounted in grids. I used different techniques of painting and collage, continuing the themes of the exhibition, to produce a large number of panels. So far “Pieces” is the only finished work, but I expect to produce some more over time. Putting individual paintings together in these arrays opens up more connections and narratives between paintings that would not work if I was to just combine images within one painting. Next step may be to play around with the scale and formal/informal arrangement of the panels.
Pieces, 150mm x 150mm x 9 mixed media panels
Pieces (detail)
No Time Like the Present 