NERYS A JOHNSON (1942-2001) Nerys Johnson’s work is a rare gem in the history of British Art. Her intense, vibrant flower studies are immediately recognizable and distinct. They are more like miniature stained glass windows than paintings. Their power comes from the forging of opposites: delicate, glowing petals and leaves are chained in darkness; the …
Jacqueline Quinn: Artist’s statement I am a painter…and printmaker. My love is of colour and texture. The northern landscape, Northumberland, it’s craggy, sharp features, soft moss and heather. Cup and ring marks, sacred symbols hewn into rock. Each piece is memory, an echo. The feeling of a place, a time, the weather, a faint recollection …
Carole Thirlaway: Artist’s statement There are Places …. Carole is a printmaker who enjoys experimenting with texture and colour. Living in the Tyne Valley, and previously on the North Yorkshire Moors, she is influenced by the natural beauty of her environment. For this exhibition the artist is revisiting places that have been important in her …
Inspired by the landscape, architecture, antiquity and mythology Dennis Kilgallon’s sculpture is unique and thought provoking. He has over 40 years experience and his journey, which includes Art School in the sixties (he dropped out), stone carving, ceramic production management and education have all influenced a remarkable range of work. This eclectic approach has led …
Jane Veitch: Artist’s Statement Margins, edges, liminal spaces where identity is fluid and where rocks reduce to sand; these are the places which free me to engage and explore. I am always drawn westwards to the coasts and islands of our archipelago. The process of making in itself involves finding, losing, re-constituting. To uncover or recover …
Karen Melvin: Artist’s statement As a way of looking at the exquisite beauty of birds, I started photographing still life arrangements of dead birds in my garden. I am aware of issues around loss of habitat and climate change and use this to inform my imagery. Finding and tracking the small insignificant deaths of birds …
Phil Morsman: Artists two short statements For me painting is an act of meditation. Whether the image arrives spontaneously or as the result of a long struggle – it is about creating an object that has its own life in the world and can become a subject of meditation for others. I have no wish to explain …
Judith Davies: Artist’s statement I have exhibited my ceramic work for over 25 yrs, showing at major art and craft fairs and galleries, work has been included in publications about contemporary ceramics. Inspiration comes from the tideline, ripples in sand and water, and the natural forms found there-such as urchin shells and pebbles. I am …
Gina Southgate: Artist’s statement As a painter of live music, best known on the international Jazz scene, where for 3 decades Southgate has captured the frisson of live music during the real time of performance. Observing the relationship between the musician and instrument she captures the energy and essence of the gig in the real time. …
George Unthank: Artist’s statement Folk Singer, Sword Dancer, Songwriter Contemporary artwork , expressing through painting, drawing and printmaking elements of folk culture and performance rooted in the North East. I create work to trigger responses found when listening to music, songs and stories of other times, fragments of which resonate within timeless truths about the …
Penny Grennan: Artist’s statement Penny Grennan is a painter whose work considers our relationship to objects, with particular reference to memory, narrative and form: all of which may be singular or partial. She often plays with notions of value by painting cheap or common objects in oil, on canvas or linen, thereby drawing on centuries of still life tradition. Her PhD thesis was …