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Exhibitors
The ARTHOUSE celebrates the uninhibited mark
making, thoughts and ideas about the world around adults living with
epilepsy, learning and physical disabilities. The artists offer an insight
into their lives. The artwork is unique, honest and the artists are
inspiring.
The ARTHOUSE works commercially, exhibiting and selling across the country
at various events and shows, showing what adults with living learning
disabilities can create and offer to a high end market. It aims to help the
artists develop pride and self worth where other wise dismissed in society
and receive incentive payments from the work sold.
Professional artists are employed to work with ARTHOUSE clients enabling The
ARTHOUSE to create saleable artworks as a team. The ARTHOUSE produces group
canvas paintings and hand-printed merchandise such as silk screen limited
editions, cards, T-shirts, tea towels, baby grows, bibs, bags etc, alongside
personal artworks.
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Rosie Christie settled back in England after
many years of travelling and working abroad in Oman and was able to pursue a
long-standing interest in art, attending Reigate School of Art and Design, where
she taught for several years.
She enjoys experimenting with a variety of materials and working methods and six
years ago started manipulating aluminium by heating and distorting the surface.
This had to stop due to a lack of facilities but led to Rosie developing ways of
using ink on flat aluminium sheets.
Rosie has exhibited widely in the South East including the Cranleigh Arts
Centre, The Fire & Iron Gallery, Leatherhead, Rhythm & Cultures Festival, Surrey
County Show and The Red Biddy Gallery, Shalford.
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Liz Clinton studied Fine Art at Camberwell Art
School and the Department of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
from which she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art specialising in sculpture.
Richard Hamilton, having taken over from Victor Pasmore, was her teacher and Liz
says that she was also influenced by Terry Frost. She taught art for many years
including at Kingston Adult Education Centre, Brooklands Technical College, Sir
William Perkins School and, as Head of Art, at The Ursuline High School in
Wimbledon.
Liz initially worked as a sculptor in fibre glass but after ten years it began
to affect her health, and she became very asthmatic. Having moved to Zimbabwe
she was fascinated by the flora, fauna, brilliant light and landscape and began
to paint in earnest producing a series of paintings in watercolours of African
flowers including proteas. However her preferred medium is oil and she feels
that the intensity of colour in the African landscapes can only be painted in
oils.
In Zimbabwe Liz also became interested in pottery, buying a kiln and a wheel and
made pots with ornate sculptural decoration, studying under Frauker Viewing and
later she attended a course on glazing at Richmond Adult College.
Liz says that in Surrey she likes to paint in oils, en plein air in the
tradition of the English landscape painters and some of her more recent
landscapes are more abstract. To capture the feeling of the bright light and
colours of the Mediterranean she uses collage, inks and acrylics.
Her work is shown annually in Guildford Art Society and VivArtis exhibitions and
at The Mall Galleries with The Laing Art Exhibition in 1998 and The Discerning
Eye in 2001. Lincoln Joyce in Bookham, The Church Street Gallery in Cobham and
the foyer of The Rose Theatre in Kingston-on-Thames have also included her work
in their exhibitions.
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Catherine Gow has been passionately involved
with the visual arts since studying art at Reigate School of Art from which she
graduated in 1999.
Having participated in many exhibitions in Surrey and London with the Strata
group and on her own, in Oxford, Brittany and Somerset, Catherine’s range of
subjects and techniques have broadened and developed. Currently her work is on
show at Millfield School until 6th August and in Somerton, Somerset from 19th –
23rd August.
The work shown in this exhibition was made this spring. Quarter Moves explores
the universal themes of colour, depth and movement and Blue Burst is a response
to the explosive energy of Spring.
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Jean Heathcote took up painting after she
married and was living in Singapore. With time on her hands and her husband
often away at sea she took a course on Chinese painting and soon turned to oils.
After settling in Farnham Jean took up oil painting tutored by Mike Bernard. In
due course she held a one-man exhibition in the City of London and has exhibited
at the Painters’ Hall, Westminster Gallery and the Mall Galleries as a full
member of the Armed Forces Art Society. Her work has also been shown at the
Guildhall in Winchester, with several local art societies in the south of
England and she opens her studio during Surrey Artists’ Open Studios.
Jean’s paintings are usually landscapes and seascapes which reflect her love of
strong colour, light and shade and texture. She enjoys using a palette knife and
prefers to paint in situ
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Pippa Simpson attended Reigate School of Art
studying both Fine Art and Photography, graduating in 2002. She works with a
variety of media, but her current focus is to create glass works. She studied
with glass artist Colin Reid in 2007 and, in April this year, with Silvia
Levenson, both of whom are artists internationally famous in the glass world.
She has had numerous group shows and also four solo exhibitions which reflected
her shift from photographic to glass mediums. Last autumn she held a solo
exhibition entirely of glass works, at the Durrell Wildlife Centre in Jersey
which was entitled The Laughing Owl and the Smilodon Cat and was devoted to the
theme of extinct and endangered animals.
Pippa says: “I have always been drawn to transparent mediums, be it the clear
casting resin I used during my Fine Art days, transparent film in photography,
or even translucent glazes in oil painting: glass was a fairly predictable
progression. My themes revolve around the lost, outdated, irreplaceable – a
yearning for something no longer here or about to become obsolete, whether it is
technology or endangered animal. Although we take our computers, mobile phones,
blackberries etc for granted, it is surprising how quickly they seamlessly
morph, just as today’s news becomes tomorrow’s history.”
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Terri Smart took up ceramics in 1990 while
working as an architect in Hong Kong and she says that the feel of the clay and
her delight in making a structured piece out of a formless lump became more and
more important in her life as she became familiar with the medium.
On her return to the UK four years later she set up her own workshop, joined the
Wey Ceramics Society and obtained a City and Guilds’ certificate in Ceramics. In
2000 Terri helped to set up Kaleidoscope, an applied arts co-operative for
locally-based artists, which held its first exhibition in Chertsey that year.
Since then the group has had many exhibitions at , among other venues, Guildford
House Gallery, Denbies Wine Estate Gallery, Cranleigh Arts’ Centre, Riverhouse
Barn, The Fountain Gallery, Hampton Court and, last year at the prestigious
Orangery Gallery in Holland Park, London.
Terri says that new ideas generally come to her in the middle of the night and
then she can’t wait to get into the studio and work directly with the clay. She
is influenced by natural elements like wind and water and she likes to emphasise
the contrasts between nature and man. Most of her work is hand-built in textured
stoneware clays and decorated with coloured slips, oxides and glazes before
being fired to 1260 degrees.
She is a member of Surrey Sculpture Society, the Surrey Guild of Craftsmen and
the Society of Designer Craftsmen and Terri regularly takes part in Surrey
Artists’ Open Studios. Her work is exhibited locally at Guildford House Gallery,
Cranleigh Arts’ Centre, in Reigate, Dorking and further afield in Cambridge,
Devizes, Folkestone, Hartley Wintney, Sark, Swansea, Winchester and in Italy.
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Bridget Tyrrell studied Fine Art at
Reigate School of Art and since then her work has been almost exclusively in
photography with its subject being ‘water’. Her interest is in trying to capture
the behaviour of water, its unique qualities and ever-changing moods.
Bridget says “Water is a miraculous substance covering 70% of the earth. Life is
unsustainable without it. It is a primordial force flowing within us and around
us, a spiritual substance of boundless energy and beauty. It is colourless and
yet its colours are ever changing. It is reflective, murky, silent or deafening.
It can be terrifying or an inspiration to the human spirit.”
Her recent exhibitions have included photographs of crashing waves, rivers,
lakes and icebergs.
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