Tower and Town, August 2018 (view the full edition)Arts ReviewAnother collaborative exhibition this month: White Horse Bookshop workshop tutors Claire Warner and Stuart Roper. It's always a pleasure to have a tutors' exhibition in the gallery, and the work by these two professional artists is no exception. Claire's landscape watercolours and nature studies are delicate, graceful and dignified. Familiar scenes of beaches, rolling country hills and Venetian sunsets are subtle yet appealing. Claire's paintings are snapshots of scenes we like to see. In contrast, Stuart Roper's acrylic paintings of wooded pathways, riverbanks and snowy villages are booming with light, reflection and colour. His paintings show the influence of the Scottish Colourists, but stylistically, his work is most recognisable because of the big, broad brush strokes he uses in order to create texture and moment. Claire has won an SAA Bursary for her teaching entitled "Art for Therapy". She develops and runs courses for students of all abilities across the country. Both artists run very popular one-day classes at the bookshop, and both will be running workshops in the autumn term. A copy of the workshop programme is available to pick up from the shop. Claire Warner watercolours & Stuart Roper acrylics was at the White Horse Bookshop between July 4th - July 29th 2018.  Gabriella Venus |