Second Impressions

The exhibition at New Brewery Arts in Cirencester opened last weekend.



Second Impressions - New Brewery Arts - beautiful airy gallery space,
with my 'Winter Westonbirt' drawing on the right

Here are a few highlights:

Katie Wallis's unique lampshades and cushions

Coo Gellar's orange peel lasercuts

 

Gemma Wright's animation

 

Jane Sasanow's windmills

 

John Lynch's reduction lino cuts 

 

Sue Brown's 'Swarm' casting wonderful shadows

These are just a few of my photos that came out OK, they're such a talented bunch.

 

More photos are on Sue Brown's fascinating blog: suebrownprintmaker.blogspot.co.uk

 

Exhibition continues until 8th March.







Ambition

I started this year with a large ambitious drawing project, destined for the group exhibition at New Brewery Arts

The progress went OK,

Once I started on the foreground I felt more comfortable with the image,

Getting this shadow in brings the image into focus,

Building the remaining shadows,

Then it was all about the details, the smaller branches, the softness in the shadows, the detail on the ground and the variety of marks which would give perspective.
At this stage it became almost impossible to photograph adequately in my small studio space.

But this weekend our exhibition opened and I was able to get a good photo. Now we can see scale and impact,

and an ambition realised - showing a large piece in a commercial gallery context.