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Rachel Sudworth & Bethany Wells
Jun
30
to 6 Jul

Rachel Sudworth & Bethany Wells

Bethany Wells

Bethany’s hand built ceramic vessels are an amalgamation of landscape, natural form, fire and earth. Her work is very much about process, using ancient methods, and ritual to create timeless ornamental pieces. The work is evocative of the connection we have to the natural world and our ancient ancestors. These unglazed works are fired brutally, and it is this intense firing process that causes the surface textures and colourations of the vessels. This particular collection was fired in the Welsh hills near Llanafanfawr using combustable materials collected from the Hebrides, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Wales and many more places of significance to the artist.

@bethanyrosewellsceramics

Rachel Sudworth

My work is always influenced by landscape and nature, emotion and experience.

I hold these ideas as I work intuitively, using paint in a loose way, with gentle energy, adding more intense shapes and line, building layers to create depth and interesting marks with other media.
So there is also a focus on the action of painting, the marks made, combined with remembered textures and movement, sounds and feelings. For me, the process is as important as the initial inspiration. I begin with this idea or memory but it is also a journey in terms of how the painting evolves, layers added or covered, other marks revealed again or worked into to capture the feeling I want to convey. 
It becomes about creating an impression, making a painting I feel has depth, balance, and quietness, something that draws a viewer in, and invites their personal involvement. 

After graduation in 2001, my first job took me to Manchester where I settled and worked in the textile industry, designing fabrics and wallpaper for the UK, USA, Korea, Japan and European markets.
A job change for my husband meant relocation to Herefordshire and the opportunity to return to my love of painting. We’re now based in The Golden Valley, on the border of England and Wales, and my studio at the bottom of the garden has beautiful views of The Black Mountains.
I have gallery representation throughout the UK and my work is held in private collections around the world.

@rachelsudworthart

www.rachelsudworth.co.uk

Beginning 4

Windblown

I found us

A Small Gift

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Lesley Trussler
Nov
18
to 24 Nov

Lesley Trussler

Lesley Trussler is a Bristol based painter and printmaker who works on still life subjects. This might be a family memento, something collected from travels or picked up in a junk shop, a vase of flowers or a found object. She enjoys giving a focus and gravitas to the everyday, mundane and temporary ephemera of our lives.

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Jonny Church
Aug
5
to 11 Aug

Jonny Church

Although he is now settled in Cambridge, landscape painter Jonny Church grew up on the Welsh borders and studied at Aberystwyth School of Art …

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