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Angie Doy was born in London and studied at Wimbledon School of Art. Her sculpture is primarily inspired by prehistoric art and mythology and aims to express a sense of emotion, or spirit, of a time and place which is intentionally ambiguous. Angie says “Prehistory fascinates me because of the very methods employed to unravel its mysteries. Our knowledge is drawn from a few objects and a landscape which inform without bias, They are imbued with a mystery which would dissolve in the presence of literacy. With no words to lie, they do however, remain vulnerable to interpretation.” Mainly a figurative artist, Angie works primarily in clay and then casts into bronze or resins. She is actively involved with a voluntary group, YADAPA (Young and Disabled and Positively Artistic) which provides a hands-on and fun art experience for local disabled young adults. Angie’s work has been exhibited at RHS Wisley and Borde Hill Gardens and at galleries in Weybridge , London's East End and Canizzaro Park, Wimbledon. Her work is held in private collections in Italy and the United States and she has completed several commissions in the UK.
Jacqui Darnell is now based in London but grew up in the country where she first began to study natural forms by which she has been fascinated ever since. She has travelled widely watching animals and studying how they interact with the environment. After studying art at Kingston University she produced work for the Natural History Museum and illustrated books and magazines. Jacqui has also gained a degree in biology in which she focused on animal behaviour and ecology. The natural world inspires her animal and abstract pieces and the motivation for her animal sculptures is always the subject’s behaviour and interaction with other animals. She says that she attempts to capture a sense of movement, mass and strength within all her pieces and movement is an important factor in her series of abstact studies with a strong emphasis on texture and colour. Her work has been shown around the country including Savill Gardens, RHS Wisley Gardens, Borde Hill, Painshill Park, Polesden Lacey, The Mall Galleries, Christies in London and in Nairobi.
Kate Dicker is a Winchester-based artist/printmaker and a member of The Society of Wood Engravers and an associate member of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers at The Bankside Gallery, London where, last year, she won The Curwen Studio Prize. The panoramas in the exhibition are digital reproductions of small watercolour sketches that Kate has made out in the landscape. Each enlargement shows a 180 degree view of various locations in the South of England. The series was first produced a few years ago for an exhibition at Portsmouth. Since then, some of them have been installed in commercial or historic sites such as a dockyard café. The panoramas can be ordered in different sizes, larger or smaller, in negotiation with the artist.
Claire Harrison gained a Fine Art BA (Hons) degree from Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College and now has a studio at Farnham Maltings. She also teaches and is a visiting artist at Farnborough College of Technology. She says that geometric patterns and symmetry surround us and her work explores patterns and forms that occur and reoccur in nature. She specifically concentrates on structures that we do not notice but are all around. Surrounded by structure, pattern and order we perceive chaos, disorganisation and stress. Claire says “Our relationship with nature is a contradiction and a paradox. What man perceives as wholly natural is often planted and cultivated by others and what is perceived as wild and untamed is natural but also ordered and structured. Natural disasters are perceived as wild and cruel but they often have a purpose within nature and are often the trigger for regeneration and life. The intuitive harmony we feel when surrounded by nature is perhaps the calming sense of order playing on our subconscious?” Claire tries to represent this by combining macro elements from natural forms that the everyday rambler would not notice and combine and enlarge them either through photographic and digital techniques to recreate flora and fauna in a partially fractured abstract form or through painting and mixed media to create strong, brightly coloured images. The natural forms and textures she uses are from the British landscape today, either a husk or leaf found walking, or an exotic flower or vegetable which symbolises the gardening tradition and how we have manipulated, changed and imported the landscape. Currently Claire is exploring microscopic forms in more depth and the patterns, which are reflected on all scales of a natural object. She achieves this by layering images on canvas, doing delicate drawings of patterns on a translucent layer over her paintings and using geometry to reflect the infinite fractal patterns that are all around. This process creates new and different forms that hint at the source but produce imagery that is using the landscape tradition in an entirely new way. Claire’s work has been exhibited widely including at The Affordable Art Fair, Plymouth University, Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair and Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
Rick Holmes has painted for over 20 years and, although he has no formal art training, still regularly attends workshops and life-classes in the never-ending quest to develop and improve. Oils and watercolour are the media that he normally uses but occasionally he chooses soft pastels. Whenever he can he paints on site or develops paintings from sketches. Although he does paint from photographs, he finds that they lack the magic of painting outside. His work is loosely realistic with a wide range of subject matter. Rick is an exhibiting member at both Guildford and Farnham Art Societies and exhibits at Chelsea Art Society as well as with The Royal Watercolour Society and The Royal Society of Marine Artists. His paintings are exhibited regularly with Lincoln Joyce Fine Art at Great Bookham. In 2007 he was elected a member of The Wapping Group of Artists. Rick takes workshops and painting days which, while helping the artists to improve and gain confidence, gives him a great deal of satisfaction.
Rodney Priddy
gained a Master degree in
Marine Geology and a degree in Fine Arts in the USA and lived in New York before
recently moving to the Surrey hills. His paintings and drawings represent
schematic landscapes based on his personal experiences as a former Earth
Scientist. He is fascinated by the simultaneous depiction of the topographical,
both macroscopic and microscopic. His work is informed by satellite images of
the earth, scientific textbook diagrams, cross-sections and maps. John Sherwood farmed locally and early retirement presented him with an opportunity to do something completely different. He took up woodturning for the new millennium and was addicted after the first shavings started to fly. He sees his role as bringing out the beauty of line and form in everyday objects and to emphasise the tactile qualities of the wood. John encourages people to touch and feel the exhibits as wood is a very therapeutic medium. He says that when busy people stop to run their hands around a bowl or pick up a turned apple, you can see the tension drain from their faces. The woods that John uses are mostly local trees that have been felled for reasons other than for timber. He is a supporter of the Surrey Artists’ Open Studios event and exhibits and demonstrates with the Surrey Association of Woodturners. In a throw back to an earlier life he has a stall at the three local farmers’ markets. | |||||||||||||||||||
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