PUNCH - LHS exhibition of paintings, drawings & sculptures by Olivia Bax & Dominic Beattie "The work of Olivia Bax is often characterised by familiar elements such as a hook, handle or vessel presented in unconventional, coloured forms. However, it is the texture of the surface which offers the viewer the most immediate insight. Bax generates her own paper pulp to cover and form a mantle over linear armatures.  Moulding each sculpture in this way creates the … [Read more...]

This week we are featuring artist DOMINIC BEATTIE as the highlighted artist within our Reflection Series and looking at a selection of his paintings. Myles Corley, Dominic Beattie & Olivia Bax installing their LHS 2019 exhibition - PUNCH "Dominic Beattie’s work is cut and built and then rebuilt, painted then overpainted. The traces of constant readjustment haunt the final image. Riffing on a wide and varied group of abstract languages that loosely come out of a constructivist … [Read more...]

This week we will be featuring artist John Corley as the highlighted artist within our Reflection Series and looking at a selection of his paintings. John in his garden during isolation “The exhibited small works represent a recent period of drawing and painting using still-life and landscape…. the world around us. Looking back to where it all began for me.  The simplicity of a sheet of paper and selected tools.  The intensity of really looking.” Opening night of … [Read more...]

This week we will be featuring ceramicist William Plumptre as the highlighted artist within our Reflection Series and looking at a selection of his work. William Plumptre studied ceramic design at Chelsea Art School. He lived for two years in Mashiko from 1985 where he worked for a year in the workshop of Tatsuzo Shimaoka: a National Treasure of Japan.   He returned to England and settled in the Lake District producing his own work which is now exhibited widely … [Read more...]

This week we will be featuring Susan Absolon as the highlighted artist within our REFLECTION SERIES and looking at a selection of her paintings. “I use painting to explore aspects of lived, reported or imagined experience.  Mostly, I gravitate towards material that reflects female experience, ideas of mortality, or social dysfunction.  If a specific narrative underpins an individual work, which usually it does, it’s not the narrative itself that I want to explore, but … [Read more...]