Exhibition Six 2011
For this, our final exhibition of 2011 we have on show a wealth of talent, some making return visits and others new to Red Barn.
Hannah McAndrew’s pots with a purpose, pieces to be treasured and passed down the generations: - I thoroughly enjoy the challenge of creating a piece of work that will perform its task well and which will look attractive and be comfortable to have around the house. pieces which will be treasured and hopefully passed down the generations as the pieces of historic wares that have inspired my own work have been.
Abstract figurative style of pattern Hilke Macintyre : - "I prefer for my art a simplified figurative style with strong abstract pattern. Particular influences are primitive art, the artists of Europe in the early 20th Century and contemporary design. I enjoy the direct visual pleasure of composing shapes, colours and patterns, looking for an individual picture of the world I see around me."
Imaginative observations from James Walsh – dreams and recollections of childhood: - I’m always reluctant to make any statements about my art. It’s mainly figurative, drawn from my imagination, observations and memories, including dreams and recollections of childhood. For me a painting is a statement and an expression in itself, and I’m happy for others to reach their own understandings of my work.
Amanda Simmons Creative glass for unique spaces: - Amanda is the lead designer/ maker at Corsock Glass working mainly with kiln formed glass in architectural, interior and sculptural settings.
The freely painted and pleasurable patterns of Annie Hewett: -Working with slipware allows me the scope to use a drawn line in combination with freely painted colour and to indulge myself in the pleasure of making patterns.”
The muted colours and changing moods of David Hay : -I live and paint in the Scottish Borders village of Yetholm. My paintings relate mostly to the local landscape but also travel and places remembered. Sources are environmental, natural or built, often beautiful but sometimes disturbing and threatening. The changing moods of the countryside with muted colour set against the light in the sky is a constant source of interest and inspiration.
Elise Chisholm - prompting the observer to create their own conclusion:- I have always been interested in people and this has been a constant factor throughout my work through the year. Figures are an essential part of my paintings and interest me because I am fascinated in creating a story with a specific scene or an unknown situation that the viewer can feel they understand but when they look closer they don’t. I want to create an image which upon first glance strikes a sense of familiarity with the observer but conceals certain information.
Geoff Marsters often illusive play of light which suggests rather than explains: -These paintings are made in response to light, colour and space in land- and seascape – a ‘feel’ of place and the beauty of atmospheric light as it modifies local colour.
They are a search for the essential core of a subject, an exploration of the subtle relationships of which it is composed, and an attempt to let the life and vitality of what is ‘out there’ be translated by a parallel liveliness in paint.
Our featured jeweller is Sarah Lindsay: - Slices of acrylic dust, lighweight and vivid. Working with colour as a material.