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Creative and Brave are returning for their second exhibition. Local artists with a distinctive colourful contemporary style. Their Exhibition brings together Acrylic Painting, Wood, Fabric and Pattern Design.

Bethan Venn is a painter and surface pattern designer. Her paintings explore mark making, layers of colour and movement,which she incorporates in fabric, wallpaper, stationery and soft furnishings.

The coast provides the inspiration for Jo Pearce’s artwork, her love of finding driftwood and treasures is expressed in her paintings and woodwork.

Sharon Bielby is an abstract painter whose paintings are a bold and colourful response to things as diverse as a phrase, a sound or beauty in creation.

Gabrielle is a professionally trained artist, specialising in oil on canvas often at large scale in a traditional way including the figure and botanical images as well as landscape. She loves playing with depth of field, colour and mark making. Using figures hidden in her paintings vibrant with colour is her passion.

This show will also be exhibiting her new abstracted landscapes influenced by her recent travels.  Solo shows include Milan, Brussels, Switzerland, France, Marylebone, and a Dorset ‘Pop up Gallery.’ She has also shown regularly at the Mall Galleries in London and elsewhere in group shows.

Stephen’s paintings are almost exclusively worked en plein air, in acrylics worked largely with a palette knife or watercolour. He produces both hand-built and wheel-thrown ceramics in his home studio pottery.

Holly explores the extremes of what textiles can be, by innovative and experimental work combining fibre with ceramic clays and acrylic media, and layering shadow embroidery on sheer fabrics with other works. Drawing is at the core of all her work.

They are hugely inspired by the unique coastlines of their home of Portland.

www.holly-yates.com
info@holly-yates.com
stephen.yates@btinternet.com

Facebook @hollyyatesart @arti2.co.uk
Instagram @holly_yates_art    @stephen_yates_artist

Stephen’s paintings are almost exclusively worked en plein air, in acrylics worked largely with a palette knife or watercolour. He produces both hand-built and wheel-thrown ceramics in his home studio pottery.

Holly explores the extremes of what textiles can be, by innovative and experimental work combining fibre with ceramic clays and acrylic media, and layering shadow embroidery on sheer fabrics with other works. Drawing is at the core of all her work.

They are hugely inspired by the unique coastlines of their home of Portland.

www.holly-yates.com
info@holly-yates.com
stephen.yates@btinternet.com

Facebook @hollyyatesart @arti2.co.uk
Instagram @holly_yates_art    @stephen_yates_artist

Four women artist/friends who meet regularly to discuss and critique their work come together to present their inaugural exhibition.

Shared influences of a colourist approach to making work are evident within the work of Jane Eaton and Jenny de Sausmarez.  Jane’s work often explores current issues in relation to the environment whereas Jenny uses a variety of media to explore imagery which is much influenced by her love of travel.

Strong graphic representation of landscape – free flowing, with a  mixture of bold, bright colours, alongside more subtle hues are all very much trademarks of Tessa McIntyre’s work. Both a painter and printmaker Tessa works in watercolours and oils and specialises in linocuts.

Working from both a traditional and contemporary approach Jane Onslow draws, paints and sculpts. A variety of materials are used to express the human and animal form within her dynamic sculptures.  Jane will also be showing drawings and paintings in a variety of media and themes.

Elizabeth is a painter of distant places. Large abstract paintings are developed from richly illustrated travel diaries produced whilst travelling far from home.

“With sketchbook in hand I seek places of solitude which are often imbued with a sense of the sacred. I am fascinated by traces and layers of history, old walls and writing found in abandoned places.

On return to my studio I begin with figurative drawing, often on a large scale. The physicality of these drawings allows me to explore subject matter and inform the development of abstract work. The final paintings are a distillation of my travel experiences and aim to encapsulate the significance of place and the passage of time.”

This exhibition brings together paintings and drawings inspired by the shrines and temples of Myanmar.

lizhand2@hotmail.com

www.heritagecourtyardstudio.com (Studio 6)

Kim says:

‘Returning to Shaftesbury for my second exhibition based on the sea (this time, the Sea and Docks) is a great opportunity.

During the recent situation, I have been able to develop and improve my painting style and in the lovely gallery space of Shaftesbury Arts Centre, I hope to show the exciting progression I have made. The sea continues to both interest, and challenge me as an artist, demanding as it does, an understanding of an element and a respect for those seascape artists who have painted before.

Hilary Ball, who exhibited with me last year, will have some of her beautiful work alongside mine, focusing on working boats and docks.

Come and see us both at the gallery and share our love of the sea.’

This is Anthony’s and Emily’s second joint exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre, in which Emily’s decorative ceramics beautifully complement Anthony’s delightful small paintings.

Anthony moved from watercolour to oil four years ago and has thoroughly embraced his new medium. This year he is exploring the subject of still life and is so far thrilled with his efforts.

Emily continues to enjoy taking her inspiration from nature using ‘bits and pieces’ foraged from round and about including leaves, flowers, fossils and shells. Her finished pieces, each one highly individual, are gorgeous examples of raku-ware and porcelain.

This is Anthony’s and Emily’s second joint exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre, in which Emily’s decorative ceramics beautifully complement Anthony’s delightful small paintings.

Anthony moved from watercolour to oil four years ago and has thoroughly embraced his new medium. This year he is exploring the subject of still life and is so far thrilled with his efforts.

Emily continues to enjoy taking her inspiration from nature using ‘bits and pieces’ foraged from round and about including leaves, flowers, fossils and shells. Her finished pieces, each one highly individual, are gorgeous examples of raku-ware and porcelain.

This exhibition brings together four artists absorbed in their own unique way with working their chosen materials to express the importance of the natural world.

Jonathan Garratt, potter, concentrates on producing wood-fired pots for gardens, using home made clay from the Cranborne Chase

Justin Orwin, photographer, looks at landscapes and interprets them in a more abstract way than merely recording what is there.

Rachel Sargent, painter, creates images through a mix of materials based on elements and light in the land.

Emsie Sharp, glassblower, specialises in creating wine glasses and tableware as well as more sculptural pieces based on marine life.