Tower and Town, September 2017 (view the full edition)Art at the White Horse Bookshop
During August, All Along The Watershed – Photographs exploring the Wiltshire Watershed by photographer Richard Draper, explores the underlying tensions between beauty and utility within our natural surroundings. Draper explores the undulated connections between the landscape and previous generations who developed it, fought for it, passed through it, and lived off it. This exhibition traces The Wiltshire Watershed, journeying across the highest point in Wiltshire, encountering some familiar landmarks, and some less familiar views. A remarkable exhibition that finishes 1st September 2017. July’s exhibition, Recent Works by 3 White Horse Tutors was a selection of work by: Jenny Arthy, who specialises in figure and equestrian drawings, collage and mixed media artist Vincent Stokes and watercolourist Paul Weaver. Each artist’s work was hung on separate walls, allowing spotlight emphasis on individual pieces, as well as collectively showing a diverse range of art forms and techniques. Paul Weaver’s ambient and highly atmospheric watercolour landscape, street and café scenes of bustling towns and cities including Marlborough, hung opposite a selection of Vincent Stokes’ iconic creations of abstract collages. Complex, balanced and allusive, these mixed media pieces conveyed many themes and expressions. The display included a selection of his most well-known collages that thematically derive from the idea of a small paper boat that makes imaginary journeys - constructed using newspaper cuttings, acrylic paint and pencil. Jenny Arthy’s life drawings depicted fluidity and movement. The sensual, graceful images of the young woman for example, back dropped by the use of hot colour and soft, unstructured lines, accentuated notions of freedom and movement. They were mastered by a variety of mediums including charcoal, goose feathers, watercolour and calligraphy pens. Upcoming exhibitions: September: Annie Monk, Acrylic Landscapes |
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