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Terri Hogan: (painting)
My paintings are an exploration of seascape and the related landscape
through the use of mixed media, they are about the ocean, rocks, sand,
earth, the essential things that the world is made of; they investigate
the effects of the elements such as wind and rain upon the landscape,
rocks and cliffs as well as my interest in the surfaces that are to be
found in this environment that is upon the rocks, pebbles and the patterns
made by tidemarks, waves etc. I am interested in the physical and tactile
qualities of paint, am intrigued by texture and the overall process of
painting.
Colin Bell: (photography)
I take photographs as a way of making pictures rather than to accurately
record what I see. Making a photo is a translation of a selected part of
our 3D surroundings into a 2 dimensional image. Looking with an intuitive
quality of attention, I am drawn by glimpses of visual qualities which,
together, intimate an unexpected order within a rectangular format.
Searching for the extraordinary in the ordinary, I work with the camera to
try and find and hold it. The variations offered by digital technology
make possible an exploration and refinement of visual qualities and their
arrangement which echoes my previous work as an abstract painter. When
this activity is successful, the images signify that which transcends
their content, that which can be seen but not spoken of.
Kay Lewis-Bell: (paintings)
When I paint, the results are as much about how I feel as about what I
see. I gather drawings and photographs, stealing shapes and searching for
the essence of the subject. Then using marks, layers, lines and colour I
separate from the original starting point. This intervention enables the
painting to become itself. The ordinariness of subject and setting belie
the narratives that are hinted at, but not discussed.
Tim Millar: (sculpture)
My sculpture explores myth and metamorphosis - inspired by fossils and
fragments of ancient sculpture, I investigate the evolution of forms and
ideas and the transformation of materials. My starting-point is the
interaction of hand and clay; in a process similar to fossilization, these
forms become wax, and eventually glass. The translucency of the final
material strikes a balance between interior volume and surface texture,
and I am aiming to preserve the inexplicable imprint of the human hand in
glass, like ancient footprints in rock.
Rowena Pearce: (paintings)
My work comes from my experience as a farmer and vegetable-grower. Earth,
and the generative quality of matter, is the basis for my investigations
into how soils bring forth life, and even intelligence. I express this
intimacy with earth through paintings, drawings and sculptures about
potatoes, termites and (recently) earthworms and their casts, using a
mixture of media including natural materials. As the image becomes more
abstract, so the direct material realism of the medium increases, until
the artwork itself resembles the product of natural processes.
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