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April 2008
19.04.08-15.06.08
Hannah Maybank @ ArtSway, New Forest
Hannah Maybank’s paintings and ink drawings embody an ethereal,
contemplative beauty inherent in the natural world. Her work perfectly
compliments the rural location of ArtSway, with the New Forest acting
as an inspiration for her recent residency which led to this exhibition.
The works created have an otherworldly quality to them, employing
recurring motifs of trees, clouds and mountains, for example. The
repetition of these motifs across the surfaces of the paintings
not only echoes aspects of life, growth and decay, but also the
cycle of the process in which the paintings were made.
The paintings begin as a series of overlapping drawings using precise
outlines on layers of tracing paper. Using these intricate drawings
as templates, Maybank then builds up her images on canvas using
latex between layers of acrylic paint. During the final stages much
of the latex is removed. Layers of paint are then peeled back, torn
and cut into, producing a tactile surface suggesting forms such
as a leaf or a tree. These forms become almost three-dimensional
objects as the paint is peeled away from the canvas and underlying
layers and markings are revealed.
to
read the full press release and view more images for Hannah Maybank
see the ArtSway website >
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February 2008
23.02.08-30.03.08
Elizabeth Magill:
Chronicle of Orange @ Wilkinson, London
Wilkinson Gallery presents its second solo exhibition of painter
Elizabeth Magill - her first in London for six years. The exhibition
brings together a body of work made over the past two years.
In the painting Chronicle of Orange - tree branches interweave
with intense green brush marks over a pool of toxic green; a dab
of chilli red paint punctuates the surface, vanishing white twigs
echoed by a blinding sun obliterate the vague landscape. At first
glance one might perceive the work as landscape painting, but looking
again other levels of reality subtly emerge through the pictorial
gestures and traces embedded in the canvas and one is led to the
inherent mental landscape at the core of the work.
to read
the full press release and view more images see the Wilkinson website
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January 2008
11.01.08-17.01.08
Josie McCoy:
Seduced @ The Windows Gallery, London
These paintings of 'Leeloo' (Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element)
are part of an ongoing series of portraits of television and film
characters.
A painting can offer a version of reality in the same way as an
actor portraying a character in a film or television series. Both
suggest that mimicry can seem more real than that which it seeks
to imitate.
Using oil paint like watercolour, McCoy paints using very thin
layers. This gives luminosity to the surface, to emulate a television
screen. The green hue she uses for the skin references traditional
techniques of painting, where green was used as under-painting to
make the subsequent layers glow.
Josie McCoy's new work was made on bespoke canvasses created by
AP Fitzpatrick.
Seduced at The Window Gallery is curated by John O'Hora.
The exhibition is running in conjunction with Seduced showing
at the Barbican until 27th January 2008.
For more information see:
www.seduced-twg.com
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www.josiemccoy.co.uk
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December 2007
Adam Holmes-Davies in New Contemporaries 2007
Now showing at Cornerhouse, Manchester :
Adam Holmes-Davies' paintings reveal the detailed rituals of his
everyday, the feeling of walking through a park, the fear of losing
ones hair, or the idea of wearing designer clothes. For Adam these
routines are distilled through the process of painting enabling
an analysis of oneself and environment.
Adam Holmes-Davies' paintings can be seen at Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2007, Club Row, Rochelle School Buildings, Arnold Circus, London
E2 7ES during October, touring to Manchester's Cornerhouse from
November to January 2008 and at The New Art Gallery Walsall from
July to September 2008
visit
the new contemporaries website >
get
more info for dates and venues >
November 2007
15.11.07-22.12.07
Alexis Harding:
Depthplunge @ Mummery+Schnelle, London
Mummery + Schnelle presents an exhibition of new work by Alexis
Harding. In a marked departure from earlier work, Harding’s new
series of paintings has moved beyond the grid-like central motif
which served as an armature upon which to present content and process
simultaneously. The new work is more critically reduced, organic,
theatrical, and corporeal: the wrinkles and sagging patches that
form on the canvases explicitly reference bodies and the processes
they undergo with the passage of time. A series of enlarged lines
and marks bring back a new problematised figure/ground relationship
to painting.
By pouring household gloss paint over a base coat of oil paint,
Harding forges new ground in the convergence of these two components.
read
more about the show >
visit the
gallery website >
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October 2007
Barbara Mullarney Wright:
Hampshire Mural
Barabara explains how she used Lascaux and the ideas behind the
mural:
The image is based on a landscape near Wanaka, New Zealand, South
Island. At the moment the real garden is very bare apart from some
large grasses. A line of poplar trees follow a hidden stream between
the distant rows of olive trees and Mount Barton, which sits like
a lump on the flat plain. In the garden a range of vegetation displays
late summer flowering plants, foliage and seed heads, chosen as
appropriate for that New Zealand location and a specific plants
list was complied. Two very loved grandchildren who live there are
included to bridge the millions of miles between them and their
grandmother. Because of her bird watching interests an oystercatcher
is glimpsed in the vegetation where apparently it likes to nest
in springtime. This commission was based both on family and location
photographs, and live botanical drawings.
The nine square meters of wall had a fairly roughly plastered surface,
which was given five coats of Lascaux Hydro-sealer and then two
coats of Lascaux White Acrylic Primer, making it really good to
paint on with Lascaux Studio Acrylics. The final wall was given
three coats of Lascaux Acrylic Transparent Varnish with UV filters.
My sincere thanks to Jon at AP Fitzpatrick for all his help and
advice with this project, Barbara Mullarney Wright MA RCA.
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September 2007
06.09.07-14.10.07
Stuart Cumberland:
Congratulations @ The Approach E2, London
Figurative and abstract canvases relating to an ongoing theme of
the painter as a light-hearted egotist striving to be rewarded for
his artistic endeavour. The paintings here primarily deal with rivalry,
desire and self- gratification, painted with one eye on the canvas
and one on the competition...
read more
on The Approach website >
August 2007
NEW: Lascaux UV Protect
Special introductory price for 400ml can
£8.50 + VAT
Archival spray varnishes with UV protection, available in gloss,
matt or satin finish. The answer to many artists' requests for an
easy-to-apply, durable varnish with UV-inhibiting properties.
UV Protect can be used on top of a variety of media, including acrylics,
gouache, drawings and inkjet prints too - ask in store for further
info
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June 2007
20.06.07-26.08.07 Gerry Judah @ The Louise
T Blouin Institute, London
The Louise T Blouin Institute in West London is currently showing
new work by Gerry Judah and Gary Hill. Gerry Judah's new body of
work, Motherlands, features white on white or black panoramic
landscapes that challenge the boundary between painting and sculpture.
Immaculately constructed miniature buildings fixed onto the canvas
are lacquered in layers of white acrylic gesso.
read more
info and see images on The Louise T Blouin website >
Shrine to Saint Ethelbert in Hereford Cathedral
Peter Murphy, acclaimed icon writer, used our pigments, a portrait
panel and twelve scenes to depict the story and martyrdom of Saint
Ethelbert, the 8th Century King of East Anglia martyred near Hereford.
read
more info and see images on The Hereford Cathedral website >
visit
Peter Murphy's website >
April 2007
21.03.07-15.04.07 Sybille Berger @ Cafe
Gallery, Southwark Park, London
First London solo exhibition by the highly acclaimed German colour
painter Sybille Berger features three new major works alongside
recent paintings and related sketches. By excluding any narrative
element from her painting and letting the work speak for itself,
her colours take on a reality outside of their own existence
read
more on the Cafe Gallery website >
see
images and text on Sybille Berger on the Galerie m Bochum website
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March 2007
23.03.07 Traditional Paint Forum Annual
Conference, Normansfield Theatre, Richmond, Surrey
The Conference (23.03.07 & 24.03.07) will look at recent work
carried out in theatres and other similar buildings, showing the
changes in style and materials used over the years and the challenges
of having to work with modern materials and regulations. Case studies
will include buildings as diverse as the Globe Theatre, The Royal
Festival Hall, 1920 Art Deco Cinemas and the Normansfield Theatre
read
more info on their website >
22.03.07 Sol LeWitt
Lascaux customers and fans of Sol Lewitt may be interested
to learn of his major recent project in Zurich. He painted a giant
museum piece of 2000 colour fields in Lascaux Artist Acrylic. There's
a fantastic web page telling the story of its creation in pictures.
see http://www.koehl.ch/aufbau
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16.03.07 More Lascaux in store now
...including 5-litre tubs of primer, size and Lascaux screenpaste.
Please call the shop to make an order or reserve goods for collection
see
Lascaux's website for advice on painting aids and printing >
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