Following our successful exhibition – Peninsular Dreamscape in Woolverstone, held last year which focused on the beauty and history of the sacred Shotley Peninsular landscape – we have continued working as a group to collaborate and create innovative and exciting art.
We all use different mediums – including painting, drawing, plaster, animation, and photography, to convey our ideas. However, the energy created by us working together as a group, produces a much more interactive, and interesting fusion of the theme for visitors. It is not an average village hall art show, as there are many interactive elements this year, including curious portrait photography, stone painting for children (and adults), and the opportunity to try a short drumming meditation (with art materials provided) to stimulate your creativity.
The theme is the Human Form. How do you interpret this? Is it just the body, or does it include the mind. What is of interest about ‘the human form’ that needs communicating?
Come and find out!
This has been an interesting topic for many in the group and more challenging than our previous exhibition, last November. But it has pushed and stretched our creativity and we are all excited to see it come together.
The exhibitors are:
Peta Hillier – “This year I have taken inspiration from the Facebook selfie photograph and created a series of acrylic portraits, sent to me by members of the Peninsula community and beyond. These paintings interpret modern moments of self- expression in a traditional format, exploring character reminiscent of earlier artistic styles.”
Jill Hodgson GRH – “I love the creative process, exploring plaster and cement, the current foundation of my artwork and the challenge of how best I can use them – in the case of this exhibition, to interpret the Human Form creating three different collections.”
Rachel Meo Klint (one of whose pieces is pictured above) – “I work with animation, photography and energetic healing that is channelled into paintings.”
Pavel Kricka (one of whose pieces is pictured above) – “Motion and expression are a driving force in my photographic and ceramic practice, capturing the expression in someone else or putting my feelings into my artistic pieces. I’m a great fan of the abstract expressionists and potters like Lucie Rie who seem to show with great endeavour or momentary precision, a feeling in their work.”
Lisa Clark – “I use Kiss on art as this form of art is a great leveller, removing all badges of rank. Using the natural form of the individual, water-based acrylic is applied directly to the body before printing onto canvas. A kiss is my signature because all bodies are beautiful and deserve a kiss.”
Alan Bedding – Alan is a contemporary professional photographer whose vibrant and original photographs are printed onto canvas. For this exhibition Alan has created a new series of striking and colourful prints using digital art which has enabled him to achieve an artistic crossover effect and uses the giclee process using colour pigments for longevity.
Michelle Bowden – Michelle depicts the human form on canvas and is inspired by her observations of the human condition in social, emotional and political context. Her art is vibrant, strong and direct.
LJ Thurstun – LJ presents the human form using drawing, painting and lithograph. Her compositions invoke a sense of spirit and place, with closely observed depictions in poetic lines and colours.
Nick Carter – Nick’s artwork depicts the human form, at intervals, through time, which was undertaken at Dance East Studio and Toni and Guy’s Salon in Ipswich. Media employed – pen & ink on paper, acrylics on canvas and conte pastels on paper.
One of the organisers and exhibitors, Rachel Meo Klint, said that a key element of any exhibition is the audience interaction. “Art is all about the interpretation by the observer. This is what is makes it meaningful and interesting as we all see things in different ways. Art that is seen, observed and given constructive feedback helps artists feel valued, and helps them grow. Art needs to be seen and interpreted for its full potential to be realised.”
Fellow organiser and exhibitor Peta Hillier added: “Organising an art show with the theme of the human form has shown me just how many ways we see people: each artist has used a different material to explore what it means to be human.
“So we have images we might present to others to issues of vulnerability, beauty and movement. The possibilities are infinite, both thought-provoking and meditative. As spectators we are drawn to the human form and each time we look we may discover In our reactions something about ourselves our values and senses. It is a two-way process and one we wish to share!”
- Admission to The Human Form Art Exhibition, which runs from 10-4pm on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th May at Berners Hall, Woolverstone, is free. Tea, coffee and cakes will all be available.
