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    Paul Brewer

    Well composed

    Private View

    We live in our mobile phones

    Digital drawings.

     

    Printed copies are available, using a digital drawing technique similar to air-brush painting I used in the 1970s.

    Paul Brewer

    Well composed
    Private view
    We live in our mobile phones

    Gustavius Payne

    End of the Line

    The Word Of God

    Hector and Daisy's Dream

    All graphite on paper, A3 size.

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    Part of the Ox Series, which is being developed as a future publication. The images acompany poetry by Martin Hayes who conceived the project. 'Ox' is a prolateriate character struggling to survive a brutal political reality. 

    Gustavius Payne

    End of the Line
    The Word of God
    Hector and Daisy's Dream

    Dilys Jackson

    Cone Sphere

    Paper

    Cone Sphere

    Thomasin Toohie

    Sea fret making outlines soft

    Oil, 20x16"

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    Thought he'd found the rainbow's end

    Oil, 16x20"

    Sea fret making outlines soft
    Thought he'd found the rainbow's end

    Alan Salisbury

    Self Portrait Mocked by Birds

    Oil on Board, 69 x 60cm unframed

     

    This painting was completed just as lockdown regulations came into practice. It is loosely based on a small postcard reproduction from an engraving by Martin Schongaeur titled ‘Owl Mocked by Birds’ (Circa 1435-91). Ornithologists will know that this is a well known occurrence; small birds defend their nests and territory from the threat of preditors. Replacing the owl with a portrait of myself and then getting mocked for doing so within the pictorial narrative had a certain comic appeal.
    However, original intentions sometimes get subverted by the making of the work as it progresses over time. The responses of outside viewers can also be revealing. Some have subsequently observed that the birds seem very ‘chirpy’ and frolic rather than threaten. I don't see this as problematic as it is usually a good sign when an image has room to accommodate individual interpretations.

     

    With the benefit of hindsight I wonder whether this image has a foreboding prescience with regard to the current situation we find ourselves in. Our normal social interactions with other humans are regulated and seriously curtailed and we are left to commune with whatever we can see or do in our gardens!

    ​Alan Salisbury

    Self Portrait Mocked by Birds

    Jacqueline Alkema

    Nightshade

    Poinsettia

    Duindistel - Melancholia

    All charcoal and pastel on paper, 5 x 4'

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    Nightshade
    Poinsettia
    Duindistel - Melancholia

    Sue Roberts

    Soap stone figure 1

    Soap stone figure 2

    Alabaster Figure

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    Soap stone figure 1
    Soap stone figure 2
    Alabaster Figure

    Ken Dukes

    Another time, another place

    Oil on panel, 19x19cm

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    From Mynydd Aberdar

    Oil on card, 14x21cm
     

    Another time, another place
    From Mynydd Aberdar

    Anthony Evans

    Sgwd / Chwefror

    Acrylig / cynfas, 65x63cm

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    Cymoedd / Hydref

    Olew / cynfas, 75x75cm

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    Capel y Ffin / Hydref

    Olew / cynfas, 88x68cm

    Sgwd / Chwefror
    Cymoedd / Hydref
    Capel y Ffin / Hydref

    Sue Hiley Harris

    Spaced Apart I

    Graphite, charcoal and indigo-dyed paper yarn, 20 x 20 x 2 cm.

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    Much of my work is concerned with line, space and form. Spaced Apart is particularly concerned with personal space and social distancing which have become so central to our lives. It uses paper yarn that I had tie-dyed with indigo many years ago and rediscovered during a studio spring clean in lockdown.

    Sue Hiley Harris

    Spaced Apart I
    Spaced Apart I

    Angela Kingston​

    ‘Open book Lockdown 2020’
    Ink, 21 x 14 cm
    ‘Foxglove spotted caves’
    Watercolour, 12 x 12 cm

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    Self isolation started 17 March.
    Having worked for many months on ‘Across the Valleys’ I came to a sudden halt due to the anxiety and fear of this very frightening virus.
    17 March I started with this ‘Open Book’ doing small drawings almost every day - adding daily to each page.
    This led to using my garden flowers as small single paintings.
    We weren’t going out and I found I liked the safe and  secure feeling of my garden and studio which began a whole new series of works. The work is becoming more abstract. I plan to continue in this way until the autumn leading to larger paintings in other media.

    ​Angela Kingston​

    Open book Lockdown 2020
    Foxglove spotted caves

    Jacqueline Jones

    Seated Woman and Cat

    The Yellow Chair

    Seated Woman and Cat
    The Yellow Chair

    Wendy Earle

    "Cresset Stones"
    Cast Coloured Cement and Wax Candles, 

    100 X 55 X 25cm

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    There is a splendid Cresset stone in Brecon Cathedral.
    They were used not only for casting light but as a vessel for Votive Offerings.

    Cresset Stones
    Cresset Stones

    Jennifer Allan

    Reflecting on the Paradox

    Oil on Canvas, 113 x 70 cm


    Although I began this painting before the official lockdown, the greater part was completed after it had begun - the isolation led to fewer interruptions and distractions which I have appreciated.    

     

    The ‘Paradox’ referred to in the title came about as a result of the way the work was made which was using four mirrors.  The central body of the work is the reflection of a reflection, the edges of the canvas are straight reflection and the small head is reflection of a reflection of a reflection.   In the process of starting to paint the edge of the canvas in the part that was representing the painting of the painting, I discovered there was nothing to paint except the support bar of the easel and I realised the image didn’t exist until I painted it and I couldn’t paint it until it existed  - hence my Paradox. 

     Jennifer Allan

    Reflecting on the Paradox

    Kay Keogh
    Lockdown 
    Mixed media, 30x35 cm
     

    Easement 
    Mixed media, 30x 35 cm

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    Painting in lockdown has been difficult to say the least for me, I just didn't want to PAINT! I was worried and thought well that's it then, I've  enjoyed seeing lots of my talented friends turning out beautiful work....but nothing new from me. I will have to stop then, give up? THEN  with  lockdown easing, it came back! Strange how differently  we all have been affected by this ....so this was my efforts and I can honestly say it felt like they painted themselves.

    Kay Keogh

    Easement
    Lockdown

    Veronica Gibson

    Gwyn's shed

    Oil on wood, 22 x 28cm, £340 framed

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    Fortunately I have an allotment, which is my garden, and during 'lockdown' I spent many hours there along with other 'allotmenteers'. With a result that my plot is thriving. I am particularly keen to paint the paraphernalia, including the creative home-made sheds. I have painted allotments now for twenty years and in some ways recorded their gentrification.

    Veronica Gibson

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