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We are a group of four women artists who have collaborated on projects in Sussex. We have an interest in depicting the world around us as we experience it, using figurative elements. Although we encompass a broad range of styles, media and influences, from Kitaj to Japanese prints, from Auerbach to Joan Eardley, we all consider drawing to be an essential part of our practice.
GALLERY OF WORK
- Like The Stars Above : Like The Stars Above, Acrylic on canvas, 56x76cm framed. Part of a duet series, in an imagined stage setting, exploring feelings of connection. Creating compositions and exploring the figure in motion through watching dancers on film, and creating still shots, is part of Gabrielle's working method.
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Under An Endless Sky :
Under An Endless Sky, Acrylic on canvas, 56x76cm framed. Part of a duet series in an imagined stage setting, exploring feelings of connection.The background is inspired by the paintings of Redon. The heightened colour is intended to convey the intensity of the dancers' lived experience.
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Quarrymans Cottage :
Quarryman's Cottage,graphite, watercolour and pencil on Okawara paper, 106x141cm framed. Large scale mixed media drawing of Quarryman's Cottage, Plymbridge, Devon. The ruined cottage in the woods is the site of an old slate mine. The layers of media are intended to try and capture the depth and the density of the structures and landscape." I am interested in the play between what we see now and what might have gone before; the history of the place and a sense of our own transience."
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North Street Wasteland :
North Street Wasteland, pencil, graphite and watercolour on Fabriano paper, 76x106cm framed. A large scale mixed media drawing making up part of a series on wastelands. Rosie has an interest in depicting the undramatic and less noticeable elements of our surroundings, always with a sense of time passed or passing. " In this scene I am trying to hint at the futility of renewal and improvement. What was new once will become a wasteland once again and there is a beauty and sadness in the broken forms and intertwining plant forms."
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Scraffito Figure Vase :
Scraffito Figure Vase, Earthenware, 51x36cm. An earthenware ceramic piece, decorated with a blue and cream abstract figure design, typical of Yolande's lively style of figure painting.
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Tall Coil Pot :
Tall Coil Pot, Stoneware, 54x20cm. Stoneware ceramic vessel, embellished with two carved female figures.
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Italian Interior :
Italian Interior, Acrylic on paper, 50x50cm, is part of a series of paintings called Figures In Interiors, inspired by the compositions of Kitaj and the colours of Renaissance paintings. Rachel is fascinated with how people occupy spaces, and how their surroundings inform their presence in them.
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Standing Figure :
Standing Figure, acrylic on board, 30x30cm. Part of a series of paintings called Figures In Interiors, inspired by the compositions of Kitaj and the colours of Renaissance paintings. Rachel is fascinated with how people occupy spaces, and how their surroundings inform their presence in them.
