'Passing Through' - The Musgrove Gallery

I'm currently exhibiting a painting made especially for the exhibition, 'Passing Through' at The Musgrove Gallery. All work is for sale. Please check it out!

'Passing Through'

21st May - 15th July

"As you pass through the Musgrove Gallery does something catch your eye or draw your attention? Do you stop and investigate; look and explore? Are you in a hurry and just 'passing through'?"

"The artists have created works which reflect and express ideas of movement, journeys and transportation to echo the movement through the gallery. Many of the works are long and thin, so you can enjoy them as they form part of your journey as you pass through -they almost travel with you!" 

The Musgrove Gallery, First Floor Queens Building, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton. TA15DA

www.artforlife.nhs.uk

 

(above) Natalie Parsley 'A Bicycle for Fernand Leger'

 

"In response to the theme of ‘Passing Through’  I wanted to create a new piece of work that explored creating a static image out of parts of bicycles, wheels and gears/cogs from watches as signifiers for time and movement. The resulting painting is a semi-abstract composition influenced in style by the work of Fernand Leger and inspired by shapes derived from the mechanisms of bicycles and clocks."

 

 

 (above) Louise Baker 'Wagon 4'

 

 (above) Linda Mattock 'Spirit Dance Drawing' (Close up)

 

"Drawing on her previous experiences Linda's work is inspired by observations of people, particularly in movement. Using complex layering of marks to capture the illusive and fleeting moment in time, her work produces semi-abstract images that express the energy, atmosphere, drama or stillness of the experience. Works exhibited include studies of broad choreographed movement, as in the drawings and paintings based on concepts and expression of spiritual dance undertaken in St Paul's Cathedral in collaboration with Ballet Rambert."

(above) John Brooks 'Swing Bridge S2'

"My work as an artist/photographer features the world around us viewed in an alternative way, one that seeks out the extraordinary that lies within the ordinary. Parts of the environment by which we are surrounded are often overlooked despite being plainly within our view."

 (above) Lydia Halcrow 'Living map of the city'

"As we walk through a place we leave behind traces of the paths we have taken, spills of food and drinks on the pavement, traces that erode other marks and leave new ones behind as they overlay with other people's journeys on foot. They hint at how we navigate the city, who was here before us, what route they took. My paintings and drawings use layers and erasure to link to the processes at play in the city, developing over time to create an alternative map of a place based on my experience of walking through it, day after day, collecting traces of what people leave behind."