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Caroline Todd has painted extensively in allotment sites in South London, in ‘plotland’ landscapes along the Thames Estuary and the coasts of Kent, Essex and East Sussex: in Portland Island, Dorset, where she now owns a beach hut, and in Norfolk. Her latest work has been made on the computer by scanning in photographs of landscapes and drawing freehand figures into those landscapes using a computer mouse. The nature of the figures is determined by the character of the place. They suggest a psychological or narrative reading which remains, at least for the moment, open ended.
Caroline has had a long association with Kingston through the Stanley Picker Collection where she has lectured since 1985. Caroline recently completed an MA at Norwich School of Art and Design. Her MA was funded by a Stanley Picker Bursary: some of this work is on show at the exhibition.
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Jane Morrall began working with clay in 1987 in California and her biggest inspiration still remains the landscapes of America and, in particular, the work of the south-west and north-west native tribes. Nearer to home Portland Island with its rocky landscapes offers the freedom to build a kiln and fire each hand crafted and burnished piece with sawdust and driftwood gathered from Chesil Beach which latterly has become incorporated into the ceramic works.
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Josie Townsend is presently working with collage, etching and monoprint combined with paint, moving from the pictorial to simple forms. The emphasis is on mark-making and colour and experimenting with print and collage.
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Pat Boyle’s work is determined by a feeling of belonging to a people and a place: The Isle of Jura. She has been working on an archive collection of the island for over twenty years and her work is informed by this and by her memories of the people past and present.
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The Islamic motifs of Old Cairo and the natural world are the inspiration behind Cherry Solon’s mixed mediums and silkscreen work.
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Julia Hembrow’s work stems from a curiosity of the tensions that exist between what is hidden to our understanding and that which we know. At present she is using natural and found objects as a starting point to this and is exploring their form through photography and drawing.
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Christine Ricketts work is taken from her visual diaries: they are a constant record of creative thinking, a collection of everyday things, which later develop and translate into bigger pieces put together in collage and drawing.
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Daphne Peek is a local lady who works in 2D and 3D. This show contains sculpture and photography/photodigital works.
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Jillian McLaren is a painter working in various media. A love of the landscape and a deep awareness of the transience of nature inform her art. She cites a long stay in St Ives as being a turning point in her ongoing development as a painter, saying that there was so much light, energy, life and movement - everything was in a constant state of flux. Communicating a sense of this flux became an important aspect of her concerns. A member of Borderlands Consortium of Artists, Jillian is currently a tutor for the Open College of the Arts and she also works with vulnerable people at Creative Response, Farnham, Surrey.
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Edwina Reeves will show new works.
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