Below Stairs at No.10
Having shown in the upstairs grandeur of No.13 in the summer of 2019, Fleur, Hilary and Sharon, joined by Mark, will be exhibiting downstairs, in the Basement Annexe at No.10, as part of Artists Open Houses in June 2021. The basement, with its own particular richness of story, provides a dynamic setting.
Fleur Cowgill
Fleur Cowgill grew up in Africa, commuting to boarding school in Kent. She now works out of a studio in Billingshurst. The colours and light of tropical lands reverberate through her palette, as do the subtle softer colours of the English countryside. Researching the science of the visible light spectrum through film gel, light box and screen print has informed the structure of her work on canvas. A loose grid lies beneath each multi-layered painting, creating a tension for the colourful vertical strokes and subtle glazes which characterise her work.
Visible light Spectrum - captured, 2018, film gels on perspex 30cms x 30cms
Visible Light Spectrum - trapped, 2019, light box 30cms x 30cms
Visible Light Spectrum - Blue embedded, 2019, screenprint A2
Hilary Kennett
Hilary’s artwork observes the spaces that we inhabit and the everyday that happens in them. For this exhibition, she will be creating site specific installations in response to the history and memories that are imbued within the basement at no. 10.’
Captured Conversation, 2019, aluminium sculpture in Perspex box
Hidden whispers, 2020, maquette for proposed installation, neon
Left Behind, 2016, aluminium and plaster installation
Sharon Fraser Hall
Sharon Fraser Hall was born in Scotland and now works out of a studio in East Hoathly. Her painting process involves much movement, exuberance and changes of focus and direction. A constant juggling of the mind’s desire for composition, design and narrative with the joy and fear that comes from gestural improvisation . The finished works are composed of many layers and retain the visual history of their making.
Fat Armpits, 2020, oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm
Four, 2020, oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Monochrome 1, 2020, oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Mark Wilson
Mark works to communicate the restlessness he feels is present within a scene as a continuously shifting intensity of sound and movement. Achievement for him is when all of the viewer’s senses are engaged. When they look at the work, he wants them to hear and feel as well as see so that what they experience is more like a narrative, something almost filmic. He paints as a story-teller.
Path, oil on card 61 x 16.5 cm
Dawn on the Hogs Back, oil and mixed media (sheep’s wool) on card, 86 x 81 cm
A Wide Sky, oil on card, 48 x 15 cm
Mark talks about his work, ‘The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie’.
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