News from the Studio

Tea break time and just a short snatch of time to update my news page. So, here is a round up of things going on. Exhibitions my work is taking part in and some things coming up.

Poster - Bespoke27.jpg

The Design Room. A Printmaking showcase at Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon in May and June. I am really delighted to have 4 prints on show. Till 27th June. Purchasing can be online or in person.

A quiet that seems coordinated, digital print on Fine Art Archival paper. 2020

A quiet that seems coordinated, digital print on Fine Art Archival paper. 2020

Proud to receive the Flourish Magazine Award for this digital print, exhibited in the English Riviera Photography showcase, at the Artizan Collective Gallery. This photographic image is part of a group collected at the start of Lockdown, Spring 2020. The light last spring was amazing. I couldn’t use the general studios so converted the small shed into a makeshift space. A time when I was navigating a ‘new normal’. Luckily also productive creatively. These images sparked off some new thinking and ideas.

I am happy to report that I now have a larger purpose built studio In the garden of my new home. There will be more about this space in a future post. It’s been quite an undertaking and adventure !!!.

Also, currently showing;

Postcards from Great Britain - I am taking part In this Shutterhub exhibition taking place at venues across Europe. Postcards from Great Britain is a largescale project where photographers share their visions of British culture through photographic images, creating conversations and exchange.

Pop-up exhibitions are being held in locations across Europe, showcasing thousands of postcard-sized images. 

My photographs were taken when I visited the old abandoned Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn. Soon to be a new living working and cultural quarter called the Wheat Quarter. I was captivated by the abandoned derelict site and chimneys sitting alongside the emerging new development.

Shredded Wheat Factory i. Digital print, 2020.

Shredded Wheat Factory i. Digital print, 2020.

Exhibitions coming up

This weekend at Digswell Arts Forge Studios

Open Weekend 11 - 4

Sat 11 / Sun 12 May

Displays, workshops, demonstrations, tea and cake, Artists open studios.

Digswell Arts Print Studio set up for Open Studios May 11/12Work by Jonathan Emmerson, Mary Down, Jane Glynn

Digswell Arts Print Studio set up for Open Studios May 11/12

Work by Jonathan Emmerson, Mary Down, Jane Glynn

Print room hanging day - lunch breakwork by Mary Down

Print room hanging day - lunch break

work by Mary Down

Also, coming up

Contemporary Art + Ritual

Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BA

Dates; 16 - 21 st May

Times; 10 - 6 each day.

Encompassing sound, light, paint, dust, wood, thread and more, the group show reveals ritual to be an expression of human life that is undergoing a process of constant reinvention. The Crypt’s atmospheric brick vaulted passageways add to the theme and will take you on a fascinating and unique artistic journey

More details about the Contemporary Art + Ritual exhibition:
https://artandritual.wixsite.com/mysite/artists + http://cryptgallery.org/events/
Accessibility: Regrettably there is no wheelchair access to the Crypt Gallery. There are steep uneven steps with a handrail leading down to the gallery. The floor of the gallery is uneven stone.

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Rust print and Dye on Fabric

Rust print and Dye on Fabric

Photography and ink  in Tin Light Box

Photography and ink in Tin Light Box

Meditative, demanding, repetitive - Ad Reinhardt on Rituals.

Using photography, drawing and installation my recent work takes inspiration from investigation into the fragile and splintered shoreline of the Essex East Coast. In particular I am interested in how the rituals of mark making and process can create a dialogue about these transient and enigmatic margins.

Excerpt from Exhibition catalogue, April 2019

Coming Up - Shifting States Nov 29 - 11 December

Delighted to have been invited to take part in an Exhibition, with a group of 14 other artists, which explores themes to do with the Liminal and states of transition. Im currently in the final stages of making a group of mixed media prints for this show and enjoying exploring and working with large scale dry point plates. Combining the mark making with larger scale dry point plates is proving to be very liberating and opening up many more ideas and possibilities.