Lockdown Exhibition #2

Paul Brewer

Always on the verge
April 2021

Closed eyes trying to imagine that my face is peaceful
4th April 2021

"These are both digital drawings, and not photographs, using a digital technique similar to airbrush painting. These images are virtual, and have no existence outside the computer."

Paul Brewer

Gustavius Payne

Primal Instinct

Oil on canvas, 41x30cm, 2020.

In His Arms

Graphite on paper, 21x14cm, 2021.

Jacqueline Alkema

The Shell

24x32cm, Pastel on paper, 2021.

Sea (E)scape
23x31cm, Pastel on paper, 2021.

"These pastels were produced in lockdown. I had not been able to go to the coast for over a year and swim in the sea, so these pastels are in fact my fantasy of being there".

Jacqueline Alkema

Michael Organ

Double header and two flights
Mixed media, 150x90cm.

Angela Kingston

'Flight 2' series

45x30cm.

'Flight 3' series

30x25cm.

Both mixed media.

"Using the natural world of my garden, I painted and drew the flowers of Spring from primrose to late summer - evolving through time to abstract and the essence.
As flowers faded, I started making installations from garden finds. This work was new to me, completely absorbing and exciting, helping to get through the long year of the pandemic.
I now combine 3D & 2D using new materials with new works."

Angela Kington.

Thomasin Toohie

Camper

Ceramic, 5x7 inches.

Frozen eloquence

Ceramic, 11x11 inches.

Maggie James

Socially Distanced: Cliff top

Pencil on lining paper, 112x150cm.

Socially Distanced: Cliff edge

Pencil on lining paper, 76x56cm.

Ken Dukes

Time...of the day

Charcoal on arches paper, 43 x 62 cm, 2021.

Three levels ,Six Bells Red
Oil on canvas, 75 x60 cm, 2021.

Alan Salisbury

Self Portait with Gremlins with Referenceto work by Hans Eworth dated 1550.

Oil on board, 45.5 x 63cm, unframed.

Bouquet of Vegetables with Reference to the Still Life Tradition.

Oil on board, 48 x 69cm, unframed

Wendy Earle

Lunar Ludens 3

Chinese paper, metal leaf, pigment, 57x55cm.

Lunar Ludens 2

Chinese paper, metal leaf, pigment, 46x42cm.

Glenys Cour

Bright Morning
Oil on paper, 42x60cm.

Dilys Jackson

Virus
Bronze, 11x11x11 cm

Small Spiked Pollen Form
Bronze, 12x12x12 cm

Waxes made in 2020, cast in 2020, patinated in 2021.

Chris Griffin
The Patchworker's Footstool
Acrylic, 51 X 61 cm

Jennifer Allan

Retrospective

The Removal of the Mask referencing 'Judith Victorious' by Lucas Cranach the Elder, circa 1530

PERSONAL STATEMENT
The looming claustrophobia of lockdown has seemed to intensify the familiar process of looking inwards as a route to making sense of experience, by looking quite literally, at myself, as well as what I might express symbolically about myself. These self portraits are both literal and symbolic and refer to different aspects of self experience though are firmly united as expressions of personal invisibility.

‘RETROSPECTIVE’ is about imposed invisibility. I was an accidental conception. The sense that I should not exist has been a profoundly influencing aspect of my experience of self. The entire content of this painting references previous forays into questioning my existence - including my pervasive sense of an empty centre.
‘THE REMOVAL OF THE MASK’ is about invisibility by choice including the paradox of making one’s self very visible in order to stay out of sight.

Jennifer Allan

Gerda Roper

Through A Glass Darkly

Tiger Lily

Jean Walcot

In the Woods, Wisconsin
Watercolour on paper, 20x20cm

In the Woods II, Wisconsin
Watercolour on paper, 20x20cm

Shirley Anne Owen
Yr Hen Goedwig (Gaeaf)
Mixed media on watercolour paper, 109 x 50cm

"Previously made drawings and photographs make it possible to revisit much loved places using paint, ink and paper."

Shirley Anne Owen

Pip Woolf

Self Portrait - Footprint

Watecolour, 230x1730mm

Self Portrait - No Edge Protection

Watercolour, 800x300mm

The two images come from ongoing work inspired by The Face: A Time Code
by Ruth Ozeki.
Like Ozeki I spent 3 hours painting an image of my own face, first obscuring my hair, then in a further 3 hour session obscuring my mouth.
I have subsequently gone on to explore how my body further displays a self portrait by focussing in on different parts of me interacting with the world.