Landscape Take Five: DIVERSITY

Landscape Take Five: Mary Taylor, Karen Needham, Anne Richards, Sally Cole, Sarah Trewhella.

A narrative by five artists whose inspiration is the seasons, environment and landscape for their work and who have come together to exhibit at The Poly.

With this concept as a starting point for their work, each artist develops their ideas with their chosen medium of ceramics, textiles, paint, ink and print. Ranging from the high Cornish moorlands, rugged coastline, rolling valleys and hills and estuaries of the Helford River.

With the individual practice, the artists explore and develop five differing interpretations. 

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The hand-built vessels by KAREN NEEDHAM are made with stoneware clays with additional layers of unpredictable lava glazes and traditional glazes. Many hours of testing the glazes have enabled Karen to share the narrative of the Cornish landscape and can be observed in her ceramics.

ANNE RICHARDS brings the Landscape alive transposing ideas into beautiful textured images using several techniques.  She combines hand dyed fabrics and threads with hand and machine surface stitching.

SARAH TREWHELLA is intrigued by the life and death cycles, the seasons and natural plant and animal forms. The beautiful environments of the Lizard and Helford River areas inspire her work. She has a fascination with the minuscule creatures and living organisms that form part of the food chain and are all so bound together existing in the natural habitats that surround her and which she loves. She enjoys painting in acrylic Inks with their fluidity taking on a movement of its own accord, which leads into something else unexpected.

MARY TAYLOR’S work concerns the diversity of the landscape.  She takes elements of the environment that surrounds us, and from memories and sketches of places she has visited she then takes some of these qualities and by a process of deconstructing and reassembling she retains elements of structure in an abstracted form.  Mark making is an important part of her work from the start to the finished piece.  Working with rapid marks she uses mixed media, erasing and building up visible layers, and as the composition evolves, the pace slows.  Her aim is to produce a painting in a semi abstracted form without losing all recognition of the landscape.

SALLY COLE’s work encompasses several mediums and techniques, from the traditional disciplines of relief printmaking, specifically Wood Engravings and Lino Prints, through to the freedoms of mono print and various methods of more experimental work, messing and blurring definitions, etching lino, mixed media and encaustic painting and back again to the more traditional and representational ways of painting. 

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Exhibition open: Tuesday 30th April to Saturday 4th May, 10am to 5pm

FREE ENTRY - Everyone welcome!

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