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Two's Company
April 12 - 27 2003
The Slade Centre begins its exhibition programme this Spring with the return of an old friend and the arrival of a new one.
Frances Thomas held her first public exhibition here in 2001. Since then she has exhibited at the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in Exeter, and the South West Straw Project (Nine Days of Art). She continues to sell her work to private collectors.
She says: ‘It was with great excitement, last June, that I accepted the offer to participate in a joint exhibition based on relationships between two people. The spacing between people often expresses the quality of relationship between them.
‘I had recently returned from Florence and my mind was full of Biblical and Mythological images, but this exhibition has also given me an opportunity to continue to produce dance images.’
We welcome Brian Busfield to The Slade Centre for the first time. Born in 1926, in his thirties Brian moved to Spain and began painting, working out of doors, oil on canvas in an impressionistic style. Over the years his work became more abstract and took on many of the colours so evocative of Spain. These are still a strong feature of his paintings.
Since the 1970s his work has mainly been concerned with the human figure. He has developed a way of working based on painting and drawing subjects in series; finding figurative images which evoke the mood of a particular subject with non-representational marks and a free use of colour.
Brian has exhibited throughout Spain, in London, Brighton and Bournemouth, where he now lives.
Both Frances and Brian will be showing their sketchbooks alongside the finished paintings and drawings.
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