Quartz
will be open to the public from October 6th - 16th, inclusive, from
11.00am until 5.00pm.
Last
year's exhibition sold over £35,000 of work at prices from £200
to £2000.
Artists
& Sculptors
We
always welcome the chance to look at work by new artists and sculptors for consideration (open to artists living in the South West). If you are interested in taking part in the Quartz
exhibition in October 2010, please get in touch by clicking on the
e-mail link here.
Tell us a bit about yourself and if possible include a JPEG image
of your work. Alternatively, ask for an application and Conditions
of Entry form to be sent to you.
Charlotte
Lampard, Curator
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Mark Abdey
Mark Abdey b.1968
Mark has been living and working in Devon as an artist for the past twelve years. He has held over twenty five exhibitions and sold paintings to collectors from America to India. Starting as a watercolourist, painting small intense landscapes, over the years he has moved to working in oil and more recently acrylic, allowing a fast spontaneous style that captures the light and atmospheric quality of the region.
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Mark Abdey |
Rebecca Birtwhistle
Rebecca explores her interest in architecture, anatomy, and other subjects which demonstrate a strong structural line, through various media and approaches. Direct observational drawing is her preferred means of depicting the space and decoration of an environment; sites and journeys are recorded in visual diaries, reflecting her preference for enquiry over exposition. Loose, rapid field sketches are subsequently developed, or provide the inspiration for more detailed works.
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Rebecca Birtwhistle |
Andrea Clark
Andrea' s work is largely inspired by her interest in charcoal and pastels as well as the array of animals that she is surrounded by at her home on Martock,Somerset.Her move towards printmaking and painting has provided a different dimension to her work in recent years.
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Andrea Clark
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Tom Clark
Tom, paints in a lively vibrant naive way, using the same format as the carvings and sculpture, strong bold lines, he is not worried about scale.
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Tom Clark
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Pennie Elfick
My paintings and prints are informed by observing everyday occurrences in the landscape. I am investigating how colour and form can reflect an emotional feeling 'of place'. Resolutely abstract, these paintings are influenced by the Minimalists, but do not rigorously negate the hand of the maker. My aim is to create work that has a duality, it is an emotional response to something natural but abstract in its pictorial structure. By removing figurative references to the natural world I am able to investigate the poetry that can be created by colour and form in a purely abstract manner. These canvases by the particular use of colour create surfaces that sit quietly and yet command attention from the viewer challenging them to contemplate and reassess what they think they see.
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Pennie Elfick |
Susan Gradwell
Susan Gradwell studied at St.Martin's School of Art (BA) and the Central School of Art (MA), before moving to the West Country in 1980, where she has continued to live and work.
"My inspiration is drawn from a love of the timeless forms and decorative qualities of urns, vases and mosaics, combined with a fascination for pattern and ornament. It is the idea of discovery of surviving traces and remains of lost, decayed, buried relics from archaeological finds that continually inspires me."
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Susan Gradwell |
Jenny Graham
Jenny Graham studied fine art and graphics in New York and printmaking at Somerset College of Arts & Technology, and the University of the West of England, where she received an MA in 2000.
"I have lived in Somerset for 20 years and never tire of painting the countryside of the South West," she said. "Hills, trees, skies, and fields, both real and imagined, form natural rythms. My work emphasises these, whilst still retaining a strong sense of place, light, weather and season."
"I work from sketches in a variety of media. This method allows pleanty of scope for interpretation within the general theme of 'landscape'."
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Jenny Graham |
Sue Jenkins
Sue studied Fine Art at Exeter and Cardiff College of Art.
Her striking, semi-abstract paintings use vibrant colour in an inspired and bold response to the idyllic landscape of West Dorset.
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Sue Jenkins |
Ann King
Since moving to Devon three years ago I have been greatly inspired by the landscape in particular that surrounding the River Dart. My work is semi abstract using oils, attempting to capture the effects of diminishing or emerging light at the end and beginning of the day on both land and water. I am also interested in and captivated by the fleeting vision of a landscape seen when in transit.
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Ann King |
Sue Luxton
Sue studied Illustration at the University of the West of England and now works from her studio on the Somerset levels.
She uses drawing as the basis of her paintings, covering subjects seen daily as in the Somerset landscape and more diverse subjects such as evenings in New York and Welsh farmers with their sheep.
Her paintings are in oil with paint applied thickly creating a broken surface allowing layers of colour to break through.
Her images are vigorous and life affirming, striving to find the perfect balance between shape and colour.
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Sue Luxton |
Peter Messa
The landscape of hill and coast, the powerful forces of weather and tide - these are key to Peter's painting.
In the process of making the work, layers of thick and thinned paint are applied, sometimes sanded back or drawn into with oil stick, graphite or chalk. This links with the artist's fascination with surface generally: histories partly revealed in layers of peeling wallpaper or stucco, torn posters on a billboard or the geology exposed in a weathered cliff face.
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Peter Messa |
Sarah Thompson-Engels
Sarah Thompson-Engels is a self-employed artist living in Somerset .She was educated and did her Foundation Art course in Taunton and went on to gain an honours degree in Fine Art from Wolverhampton University. Sarah's paintings, prints and homewear designs adorn private homes, restaurants and corporate buildings in and around the UK and internationally.
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Sarah Thompson-Engels |
Clare Schmidt Norris
Inspired by both the natural and the manmade world, Clare explores different ways of combining materials and creating multi-layered surfaces: she uses a combination of digital technology with more traditional techniques of painting and collage to bring new and exciting dimensions to her finished art.
In her most recent work she transfers elements of her digital photos on to plexiglass and then layers them over a prepared surface, often using translucent and reflective materials, to create images with great luminosity and vibrancy of colour.
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Clare Schmidt Norris |
Jeremy Speck
Jeremy's initial interest in printmaking was fired by a passion for 20th century British art and design, especially the work of artists attempting to combine the British landscape tradition with European modernism. Over the last few years his work has moved into the entirely abstract, with strong modernist influences.
"Taking my initial cue from simple geometric or organic abstract forms, the prints usually start life as paper collages before being translated into relief prints where colours are layered to give transparency, texture and depth to the image. I work almost exclusively in relief printmaking, where the incised line is both physically cathartic and permanent.
My artistic aim is to produce striking, balanced and decorative images that reward repeated viewings."
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Jeremy Speck |
Mary Sumner
When I start a piece of work I illustrate experiences of my daily life, things I have seen during the course of a day, a particular building, a group of animals, the colours in a garden, anything that interests and amuses me. I walk most days observing my subject matter. This is how my ideas formulate, I may take a photo, collect a "found" object, jot down a phrase or do a pencil sketch.
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Mary Sumner |
Scarlet von Teazel
After moving to Somerset I indulged myself by studying a fine art degree. During these studies, amongst many others, one important experience was meeting a controversial German artist, Anselm Kiefer, while working alongside him on his installation for the White Cube in London and later visiting him in his Paris studio. While still being strongly moved by his work, this encounter, together with meeting some other artists that have made the ‘lime light’, left me feeling somewhat cold and shivery. It has refuelled my existing uncertainty about the meaning and purpose of life – and this uncertainty strongly influences my art. I follow instincts and echoes of distant memories of my childhood and of old Prague, textures suffused with emotions, leading a dialogue with the unconscious to try to achieve a deeper understanding of our world. Through my work I try to connect with other people who like me feel at times a bit lost ...
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Scarlet von Teazel
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Louise Waugh
Paintings from travels and particular moments. Figurative yet contemporary worked up from sketches in oil and acrylic on canvas.
This year Louise has shown at the RWA in Bristol and the RWS open 21 at The Bankside Gallery, London; a three man show at the Hybrid Gallery, Honiton, Bristol Affordable Art Fair, and a three man show at The Sadler Street Gallery, Wells, Somerset.
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Louise Waugh |
Claire Western
Claire's increasingly sought-after work consists of vivid images of the land and seascapes of the south west. She concentrates largely on changes in the weather, fleeting moments in the light and texture of the land. She works from quick sketches made outside. Back in the studio, she combines many materials, using gesso, oil, acrylics, dyes, sand, glazes, gold leaf and many natural materials.
These colours and textures are all layered and drawn and painted over until she achieves the expressive image she seeks. The scale of her current work varies tremendously from small, jewel-like images to massive textural work on canvas.
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Claire Western |
Tilly Willis
Born into a family of artists Tilly Willis was brought up and still lives in Somerset. She trained during the 1980's at SCAT and the Byam Shaw in London. An established portrait painter, she also paints landscapes, still life and interiors in oil and watercolour, often working to commission.
Much of her work is inspired by her lifelong passion for travel, particularly in Africa. She visits Senegal regularly to paint and visit family. She now enjoys international popularity due to the extensive publication of her African paintings as prints, cards and calendars.
Tilly is a founder member of The Recessionists, a group of mainly Somerset based artists who have exhibited locally to great acclaim. They now plan to exhibit nationwide.
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Tilly Willis |
