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Collaboration

Tuesday 13 - Sunday 25 September 2011

10 am - 5 pm

Opening View: Tuesday 13 September from 6 - 8 pm
with readings by Moor Poets Fenella Montgomery, Ian Royce Chamberlain, Jennie Osborne and Graham Burchell at 7.15 pm

Anita Reynolds

Lin Cudlipp

Alison Veazey

Sandra Litchfield

Emma Cook

Maggie Smith

Joanna Martins

Sally Fisher

Artists generally work alone. The path of creativity can be a solitary one.
Control is central to the process, and striving for control of materials and method is the cornerstone of most artists' work.
To relinquish control is a daunting prospect, but allowing an outside influence into one's work
can result in new directions and a fresh vision.
The artists taking part in this exhibition have all collaborated with others, or with input outside their direct control, to produce new work.

I belong to a collaborative group: Poets and Painters. The group meets regularly at different locations, where we share ideas
and use each others' art forms as starting points for new work. For me, this collaboration has provided new and exciting stimuli
for image making. Seeing through a poet's eye offers another dimension to my visual world.

Anita Reynolds

The changes that occur in nature: erosion, fossilisation, and the effects of fire and water on the earth have always fascinated humankind.
The magic we feel when we unearth a fossil frozen in sediment, or see new life growing from the fired earth, bear witness to
Mother Nature's incredible power to preserve a moment in time, to renew and yet capture the fragility of all living things.
This body of work is my attempt to collaborate with these elements and interpret these processes. It is about construction
and deconstruction, fire, water, earth and stone, giving up control to the unpredictable and embracing the metamorphosis it creates.

Lin Cudlipp

My daughter, Jemima Richardson, is a born artist, never happier than with a pencil or paintbrush in her hand.
For this project I have used fragments of her drawings in mixed media works, and have fused them into pieces of printmaking
using the traditional Chine Collé technique. I have also allowed her to dictate colours, compositions and directions
within the project, which explores shared themes and imagery.

Alison Veazey

My work has been as a result of collaborating with my son, Rob, who spent his placement year from university working on
a game reserve in Botswana. his beautiful photographic record of his time there, and my visit to see him in January, inspired me
to capture moments, shapes, patterns, textures, skies and the wild life of Southern Africa in painting and printmaking.
Our joint montage was based on our time as a family in the magical Okavango Delta,
the world's largest wetland, a wildlife paradise, silent and slow.

Maggie Smith

Emma Cook has worked with her husband, the musician Mat Cook. In response to his instrumental composition,
Emma has created a panel of mixed media canvases, predominantly turquoise and white, with hand sewn beadwork.
Taking the theme of spirals as a starting point, Emma created a mixed media work on wooden panel
to form part of a large collaborative work for the back wall of the art gallery.

Emma Cook

Collaboration with sound, music and the natural keys that I feel are sung in nature, like wind in the trees, birdsong, rain,
and the sound of grasshoppers. I have always 'seen' music in colour and form, and have had strong images at times
when listening to choral music. In this project I explore painting from the 'core' where all senses meet to experience sight, sound,
smell, feeling and taste. For me, colour has a particular link to certain keys and tastes: lemon, citrus, sharp sounds,
clear colour, high frequency... Indigo blue brings for me a deep mood, a minor key, mystery and longing.

Sally Fisher

Walking in woods in Cornwall in early spring I came across huge fungi which became my starting point for this project.
Using found pieces of wood and working with copper and enamels I have represented the collaboration between decay and life forms.
Without the decay we would not have the wonderful array of fungi.

Sandra Litchfield

I have painted, on and off, all my life, but I have always felt that I was a slave to excessive realism.
For this project, I have given over parts of the project to my partner, the photographer Dave Wade,
who has chosen the subjects and provided preliminary outline sketches. Giving up some of my fanatical control has been
challenging and not always successful, but has been a valuable learning curve, and the start of a journey.

Joanna Martins