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June – 4th August Opening
Hours: Mon – Fri, 10.30 – 6.30 The Walk celebrates the summer by presenting a mélange of artists and media in a group
show to infuse and arouse the senses. Landscape paintings, aquarelles and
abstract canvasses will be displayed alongside etchings, drawings and digital
prints. This show is not about trends and fashions in art; the viewer is invited
to put aside any preconceptions and embrace diversity, experience pure visual
pleasure, and enjoy this unique gallery, set in a grade-II listed Edwardian
house. Natalie Abadzis is showing a series of watercolours and etchings,
freely executed in her distinctive narrative style. Marie Wylan expresses light and emotion through paint
while Claire Harrison uses the landscape genre in an entirely different
way, using natural forms to create symbolic abstract canvasses. Anita
Peace draws her inspiration from the superb creativity of Indian weavers. In
Nina Rowley's finely executed drawings, the human form is
uncannily entwined with organic matter, resulting in a subtle balance between
surrealist vision and direct observation. Annabelle
Elford' s works on paper aim to
simplify and reduce, taking one single element and painstakingly working with
that alone, a process that she likens to that of medieval monks working on their
illuminated manuscripts. Starting from ideas derived from his own
experience of our society, Chuck Elliott creates sleek Perspex-framed
metallic photographic prints that combine dynamic colour and bold linear
patterns. Sophie Mortimer, a visual diarist and reportage artist is interested
in catching the spirit or personality of a place and she does so in a fluid and
immediate way. Her work is contrasted by Kevin J. Pocock's precise, almost architectural
paintings and drawings. Inspired by myths, Susan Paine creates collages that she
then goes on to transcribe into paintings. Graham Mileson, a member of The London Group, and Kitty North share a love of the
matière and of bright
colours as well as of the British countryside. While North translates her emotive response
to nature into symbolic yet recognisable landscapes often executed in an almost
fauvist palette, Mileson uses the
sharp blade of a credit card "in a pursuit of a personal vision where clumsiness
is a precondition of eloquence". |