John Renhasw page updated

I must concede that responding to his paintings remains quite challenging - (particularly in connection with the issue of repetition .....but this is perhaps inevitable!)

Each new drawing becomes a problem to solve. Although I am not not working directly from actual objects,there has been an emerging concern with what perhaps might be referred to as 'visual / pictorial mechanics'.My drawings are an attempt to deal with both shape and form.Decisions concerning potential tonal relationships emerge during their making,gradually exposing and revealing structure.

 

 

 

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Marged Pendrell page updated

I had to include one of my peat vessels (made for one of the circles) and also decided to use slate, not as a solid material but by sifting the chips I found on the slate tips and using the resulting dust as a surface skin as for the leather. This circle of vessels was clearly becoming an enquiry not only into the collected material but the material that was found on the surface and below the surface of the land.

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Noëlle Griffiths page updated

I have finished the large canvas Tree and Fragile – Tree book which relates to the colours used to make that painting. I have chosen to make this book purely visual without text in a concertina format...

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Gareth Griffith page updated

Henry Willis and Sons Organ Makers and Restoration.

‪A film by Greg Byatt with Gareth Griffith following research visits to the factory.

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Marged Pendrell page updated

Walking amongst this quarry waste, the inside of the mountains, I come across some Iron Pyrites (Fools Gold) which has always fascinated me. Seeing it here within the context of all this grey waste, the name Fools Gold takes on a rather poignant metaphorical connotation on which I shall return to...

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