Crabapple
Their next exhibition - with lots of items suitable for Christmas presents, is
in the
Bartholomew Rooms, The Square, Eynsham
on
Saturday, November 25th & Sunday, November 26th
noon till 4pm
This page gives some information about the artists and their work. Click the Contact us button if you want to.
Elsa Dawson has been painting since the mid 1980s when she was inspired by the beauty of Peru’s Amazonian cloud forest to put brush to paper. Sitting there one evening, watching the setting sun sparkling in the swirling waters of the River Tambo, she discovered she could paint after all. Gradually, she came to find in art a way of expressing her inner self and love for nature.
Her passion is now for painting vibrantly colourful flower pastels, a skill which she owes to some excellent teachers, including the late Miguelangel Cuadros, former Director of Lima’s School of Art, and Oxford’s very own Neil Drury. To all of these, she feels deeply indebted for introducing her to such a life-enriching experience.
Having always been interested in the arts, it wasn't until 2002 that Karen began to seriously develop her photography and within six months discovered her passion for creating beautiful images of food - fresh, raw and colourful, using only natural light and nothing inedible to enhance them.
Rose Hallam hand-paints wood, and uses photomontage, to make distinctive, original jewellery. The use of colour and fine detail are essential to the work, which is both abstract and traditional in design. The jewellery is light to wear, and uses sterling silver findings.
A photograph supplied by a customer can be transformed into a personalised piece of jewellery.
photographs
Adrian has been taking photos since the '50s - mostly colour slides of his travels, in the style (hopefully) of the National Geographic. As colour printing became more accurate and affordable, he turned increasingly to colour prints. In this exhibition he shows recent portraits of people in Laos and Mali.
Adrian took up pottery a couple of years ago. under the tuition of Gill Hedge. He regards himself as very much a beginner, relying on Gill not only for help and advice in throwing and turning, but almost entirely for glazing and firing.
Adrian's enthusiasm for digigraphs came from his delight at being able to by-pass drawing (a low skill area for him) and paint with photographs, enabling him to build up an image very different from a photograph - more like a painting perhaps, but different from a painting too. This is Adrian's first exhibition; he is quite tentative about them.
Click on the link for more about digigraphs.
thrown pots
Like Adrian, Sue is fairly new to throwing and her work owes much to Gill Hedge's teaching, glazing and firing. Sue and Adrian are hoping to set up their own workshop in the next year - and still have much to learn!
Sue has been experimenting with hand built ceramics at evening classes for a few years and is now in Sue Drew's class at Sunningwell School of Art. This is her first exhibition.
Sue's development of digigraphs arose out of her experience with the process of etching; if you change your mind with an etching, you can't go back and undo what you've already done. With Photoshop on a computer, you can use Layers, in the same way as in etching, to build up depth and composition, and you can delete them (temporarily or permanently) as you change your mind or develop your ideas.
Gillian has been hand building delicate pots at evening classes in Oxford for some years. But her relationship with pottery is much older. As an archaeologist specialising in Greek and Roman archaeology, pots are an important part of her work and research.
Back in the 21st century, Gillian is experimenting with new techniques and new materials, and will be exhibiting thrown pots and porcelain.
Tamsin has been a keen photographer since creating her first dark room at the age of 17. She trained as a Graphic Designer, and now lecturers in Art and Design at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College. These two photographs are from a series of eight entitled "Bluebottle", in which Tamsin explores the idea that photography is a process of 'painting with light'. Through optical distortion of the subject and the use of a limited colour palette, Tamsin has created a dramatic collection of abstract images. Although taken digitally, they have not been manipulated by computer. The images are printed on canvas to create a juxtaposition between the normal conventions of the printed photograph and of traditional painting
