summer news: a forthcoming exhibition, a pop-up weekend art show in WALBERSWICK over the summer bank holiday weekend.
i am joining three other artist painters (not decorators) in a small show of paintings, prints and some mixed media collage. it's a two day exhibition - sunday and BH monday [saturday is the annual village fete].shortly thereafter, in early september, another ARTWORKS exhibition begins. music, wine & canapés.SUMMER EXHIBITION: PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND COLLAGESMiles Fairhurst, Jazz Green, Julie Noad and Anne Paton at Walberswick Village Hall.Summer Bank Holiday weekend of Sunday 27th and Monday 28th August 2017. Open 10am to 6pm.Easy ground level access. Admission Free. Everyone welcome. Well-behaved dogs are also welcome to join their human companions at the exhibition (dogs must be on a lead).Parking: limited at Village Hall, reserved for visitors. More pay & display spaces at the boatyard or beach carparks.Directions: Follow road signs to Walberswick from Blythburgh village on the A12. Walberswick Village Hall is centrally located, opposite the village green, next to the acesss road to the beach.
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CASTLES AND CARAVANS [2] 2016, painted card collageinc. picture frame: 18cm x 18cm x 4.5cmcollage: 9cm x 8cm[note the small dimensions of this artwork]small collage constructed from recycled & painted paper and card fragments, seeking intricate or evocative rural elements, abstracted and distilled from cross-country commutes to a day job: glimpses of fortress farms, scaffolding towers, country piles, black stacks, steely barns - travelling between the picturesque, the industrial and the mundane, the meditative process of collage has become symbolic of an interior journey, from privilege to frugality, the art of making it ‘home’ again...**text adapted from an exhibition catalogue statement (July 2016).why this work? because it represents struggle and fortitude [resilience, endurance, on the road, etc].