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Release The
Gallery Upstairs E:
galleryupstairs@aol.com www.thegalleryupstairstorquil.co.uk Access
via Torquil shop Summer
Exhibition This is a large group
exhibition by over 40 artists in the gallery and gardens. Many of the artists
will be familiar to regular visitors: we have work by local artists, Michael
Felmingham and Jill Jeffrey – painters who have successfully exhibited here for
many years, as well as Malcolm Wilcox, invigorated by a sell-out exhibition in
Cornwall. We also have watercolours by renowned painter of the Malvern Hills,
David Prentice, who won the Sunday Times/ Singer & Friedlanger watercolour
competition in 1990 and received prizes in the same competition on three
subsequent occasions. We also have new artists:
Stan Jones, whose love of old buildings and architecture shines through in his
delicate linocuts; Liese Webley from Devon who creates playful and sophisticated
paintings inspired by her travels, ‘about’ places rather than ‘of’ places and
Gary Long, from Cornwall with seascapes and landscapes which have nature as
their model and yet have abstract qualities. Gary works from memory and
intuition and we are made
aware of the surface of the work, with his pushing and dragging of paint, giving
a real and actual quality - more 'object' like than simply depiction of the
subject. We have ceramics by
resident artists Carey Moon and Jayne Lucas, as well as ceramicists from further
afield such as Tim Andrews, Chris Carter and Mary Rich. New to the Gallery is
Jeremy Steward who makes sturdy, wood-fired jugs and vessels in the tradition of
Mick Casson. In the garden we have pots
and ceramic sculpture and animal forms sculpted from woven willow by local
artist, Guy Allen. Diametrically opposed to this school of figurative sculpture,
we have more conceptual works by Peter Berry, who is concerned, instead with
purity of form, free from the limitation of representation. Peter’s intention
with his sculpture is to arrive at forms which relate easily and convincingly to
the environment. Often reflecting an interest in the hidden or submerged order
behind immediately perceived reality, the forms may be considered ‘ideal’
insofar as they attempt to show order, balance and harmony.
This exhibition is held in
loving memory of the founder and driving force behind The Gallery Upstairs, Reg
Moon, who sadly died in January this year – and it is dedicated to
him. Telephone 01564 792174 or
email galleryupstairs@aol.com for an
invitation. |