Friday, 31 August 2007
THE GALLERY KITCHEN BAR & EXHIBITION SPACE
THE GALLERY is staging its second VOGA Art Show of 2007 at THE GALLERY, 2 Broad Street, Barry CF62 7AA, commencing 3rd September 2007.
VOGA members: EVE HART, ROBERT HART, SHIRLEY ANNE OWEN, and GERALDUS JOHN will be showing works under the collective title ‘DIFFERENT STROKES’.
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THE PAINTINGS OF SHIRLEY ANNE OWEN
Shirley Anne Owen is based in the seaside town of Penarth. She draws on the South Wales urban and rural landscape for her subjects, often including the people who live there. Many of the images are also linked to memories and poetry.
Ideas develop from ink and charcoal drawings and are freely interpreted in acrylics or mixed media. Her work is characterised by a freedom of expression which gives it a strong sense of vitality and light.
As well as exhibiting regularly Shirley has also completed many commissions.
To view further works by Shirley Anne Owen please click the link below;
http://www.paulgbaker.co.uk/shirley_anne_owen.htm
Ideas develop from ink and charcoal drawings and are freely interpreted in acrylics or mixed media. Her work is characterised by a freedom of expression which gives it a strong sense of vitality and light.
As well as exhibiting regularly Shirley has also completed many commissions.
To view further works by Shirley Anne Owen please click the link below;
http://www.paulgbaker.co.uk/shirley_anne_owen.htm
Monday, 20 August 2007
Monday, 13 August 2007
THE PAINTINGS OF ROBERT HART, DAE, M.Ed
STATEMENT
The Arts have affinities with Science and Philosophy in that artists also explore the environment, experiences, and ideas.
I am not so much interested in representation as in trying to illuminate the essence of a subject or idea. I enjoy colour and form for their own sakes. Sometimes they alone can produce exciting, or disturbing images, which may penetrate below the level of consciousness.
The medium changes the outcome so I work with various materials, trying always to find the most appropriate, economic, and aesthetically satisfactory means of conveying my intention.
EXHIBITIONS
My work has been shown at Open exhibitions in London and the UK, and also by invitation at The White Room Gallery in Harlech, Wales, and The Old Hall Gallery, Cowbridge, Wales.
I exhibit regularly in the VOGA group exhibitions which, in 2005, included a European tour to Rheinfelden and Fecamp, and more recently Newport Museum and Art Gallery, and St. David's Hall Cardiff. I exhibit with the South Wales Art Society and in 1998 was awarded their Portrait Prize, and the President’s Choice Prize.
The work shown in the Gallery exhibition is selected from my series entitled 'SEA PICTURES’
The Arts have affinities with Science and Philosophy in that artists also explore the environment, experiences, and ideas.
I am not so much interested in representation as in trying to illuminate the essence of a subject or idea. I enjoy colour and form for their own sakes. Sometimes they alone can produce exciting, or disturbing images, which may penetrate below the level of consciousness.
The medium changes the outcome so I work with various materials, trying always to find the most appropriate, economic, and aesthetically satisfactory means of conveying my intention.
EXHIBITIONS
My work has been shown at Open exhibitions in London and the UK, and also by invitation at The White Room Gallery in Harlech, Wales, and The Old Hall Gallery, Cowbridge, Wales.
I exhibit regularly in the VOGA group exhibitions which, in 2005, included a European tour to Rheinfelden and Fecamp, and more recently Newport Museum and Art Gallery, and St. David's Hall Cardiff. I exhibit with the South Wales Art Society and in 1998 was awarded their Portrait Prize, and the President’s Choice Prize.
The work shown in the Gallery exhibition is selected from my series entitled 'SEA PICTURES’
Sunday, 12 August 2007
Saturday, 11 August 2007
THE PAINTINGS OF EVE HART , NDD, ATC, DAE
Eve Hart studied painting at the Regional College of Art, Manchester (1958-62), gained a teaching qualification at Leeds College of Art (1963), and an Advanced Diploma in Art Education from Leeds University (1969). Prior to taking early retirement she was Lecturer in Charge of the Art and Design Education Courses for BA Ed. and Primary PGCE at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education. She is a long-term member of The Vale of Glamorgan Artists, and a Trustee of the Women’s Arts Association (S.E. Wales).
My work has two differing, though connected strands.
I have always worked from direct observation and made figurative paintings. I am interested in the traces left behind by people. I am interested in pathways and journeys.
I am looking in these paintings to heighten awareness of the everyday world.
Recently much of my work, as in this exhibition, has been of an abstract and sometimes symbolic nature. These for me are also journeys. They often start with no end in view, though some themes have emerged. Many are concerned with recycling. They reuse materials, drawings, and ideas. Thoughts around Growth and Exploration are often present with images of flight, or birds, or plant forms emerging as the work proceeds
These pictures come from the interior world of the imagination and gather memories and meaning for both artist and viewer along the way.
The works displayed are from two separate series:
1. Bird Series
These started as enlarged fragments of previous paintings; the images merging as if of their own accord.
Flurry 66.5 x 66.5cm
Roost 1 66 x 66cm
Roost 2 67,25 x 51.5cm
Big Moon 66.5 x 49cm
Night Birds 66.5 x 66.5cm
2. Exploring 1066 Series
These started as enlarged fragments of a previous series concerned with the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. They, in some, ways relate to memories of Tenerife,
Moon Fruit 63 x 50cm
Fruiting|Bodies 65.5 x 65.5cm
Island life 1 67 x 67cm
Island Life 2 66 x 52.75cm
All work is Oil on Board
Friday, 10 August 2007
Sunday, 5 August 2007
THE PAINTINGS OF GERALDUS JOHN
Geraldus John was born in West Glamorgan and studied chemical engineering. He has lived in Wales all his life but spent periods abroad in his work with a major oil company. He travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. Travel and industrial experience have been important influences on his painting. He is an early member of the Vale of Glamorgan Artists and has exhibited extensively in the home area and abroad with the group. He has also held several one-man exhibitions and had paintings selected for all but one of Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition held at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff. He also collaborated with artist Shirley Anne Owen in a series of four, ‘DEM AND PROG’ annual exhibitions at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre.
I work mostly in oils and mixed media and have a lasting interest in the decay and regeneration of industrial landscape. My work is bold with strong colours exercised over a wide tonal range. The Genesis series of paintings illustrates this.
My series “An die Musik” examines the relationship between Fine Art and Music. It is an attempt to capture the essence of each composer and set it down in paint-a transference from one medium to another. In many of the works I have introduced well-known images, which can be a key to the composer’s identity. In others I lean towards abstraction, perhaps in deference to music’s predominantly abstract form.
Saturday, 4 August 2007
Friday, 3 August 2007
LLAREGGUB by GERALDUS JOHN
Llareggub-a personal view of Dylan Thomas' legendary little town in 'Under Milkwood'-a microcosm of human behaviour.
Oil on canvas board
72cm x 87cm
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
CONSTRUCTION 1 by GERALDUS JOHN
The first of a series of high rise abstracts inspired by Torres
Oil on canvas board
99cms x 36cms
ROLLING HILLS OF WALES by GERALDUS JOHN
The gentle rolling hills of central Wales contrast vividly with the robust terrain of the north of the principality.
Oil on canvas board
71cm x 87cm
CONSTRUCTION 2 by GERALDUS JOHN
The second of a series of high rise abstracts
Oil on canvas board
74cm x 36cm
FIRE AND STEEL by GERALDUS JOHN
One of the last of the small steel works located in West Wales-now sadly gone.
From the Genesis series of industrial paintings.
Oil on canvas board
64cm x 77cm
THE GREEN FUSE by GERALDUS JOHN
Dylan Thomas describes the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
'The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dull to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry flower'
The fuse is both creator and destroyer.
Oil on canvas board
92cm x 77cm.
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