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Opening Evening – Renewals and Reflections
Sunday March 4 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Karn writes:
Renewal and Reflections – the cycle of the seasons and now spring bringing forth new life. A new start, a new beginning each day, with the sunrise and the sunset, the stillness of water and the stormy seas.
It is my love of the peace and tranquility we can find in nature that has influenced me in the paintings that I am doing now.
I travelled some years ago with my husband and small children in Europe and North Africa, both of us painted and played music. We spent time in the mountains, the desert and by the sea, and the memories of the places we went to have inspired me in these recent paintings.
Previous to this, I studied ceramics at Art College, worked in potteries in Denmark and at Poole Pottery. I continue to make pottery, both sculptural and functional. I also studied paint effects, finishes and murals, from which I have done several commissions.
My paintings are mostly oil on canvas. I have the good fortune of painting with a lovely group of women and learning techniques from a wonderful mentor whose knowledge is truly inspiring.
Brian writes:
Art is something that I always loved to do – be it painting, pen doodles and the more fine-art based abstract photography. The photography side of things was where I started from (but even then the artwork was always there – sometimes as inspiration to the photos), drawings and abstracts in watercolours and pen and ink, plus a few tentative attempts at putting ideas down on canvas.
The major and more recent “why” comes down to experiencing one of those unwanted, unwelcome and prolonged periods of being out of work some years ago now. And I was looking for something to fill that otherwise dead time whilst waiting to hear about jobs that so often failed to materialise, something that wasn’t too much of a drain on my then limited resources. So painting it was!
Initially starting with a purely abstract – seeing what worked and what didn’t. From there gradually evolving into a more structured approach, but still keeping that abstract feel to what I was doing. Also seeing how that approach worked on found objects like driftwood, as well as doing more traditional – i.e. “proper” paintings – and in the last few months blending these two styles together to see how they worked together – one of which is included in the current exhibition.
I hope you enjoy the exhibition and that the above goes some way to explaining what exactly it is that I do!
For further info/commissions please contact: brian.weatherup@homecall.co.uk or visit Brian Weatherup on Facebook