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Surroundings

18th September 2017 by

4 March – 1 April 2018

 

 

Linda Clarke

I studied at Medway Art College from the age of 16 and graduated with an NDD.  I subsequently met and married Tony Smith.  My first job in the holidays was hop-picking.  I took my first baby in the pram to the hop gardens, where I trained hops and became familiar with the unique processes of hop cultivation.  This exhibition is of paintings from sketches I have worked on all my life: of people working on the mudflats by the sea, in hop gardens and in other areas of farming.

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When I was a student, a tutor said I would never get very far as I was neither modern nor traditional.  Maybe she was right, although I have exhibited at the RA several times, together with the following:

N.E.A.C, Mall Galleries, London

New Metropole Art Centre, Folkestone

Drew Gallery, Canterbury

Eastern Rooms, Rye

Towner Art Gallery, Sussex

Lloyds Exhibition, Chatham

Alton Gallery Barns

Llewellyn Alexander, London

Forest Field Metropole, Folkestone

Remington Gallery, Faversham

Neville Gallery, Canterbury

Creek Creative, Faversham

 

I have always admired abstract painting and have often strived to push in that direction, but the subject matter that infuences my daily life – countryside, animals – are too overwhelming for me to be a figurative painter.

 

Catherine Farr

 

Catherine’s work is based on the beach at the end of her road, her garden, and her favourite garden: Great Dixter (which she visits regularly to draw and take photos).

As a painter Catherine has always been interested in colour, the effects of colour next to each other and the light.  Early studies of the German Expressionists developed the use of colour to create mood.  This was gradually drawn into her work as well as the symbolic references to other things like choice of flower.

Catherine sees all of her work as a kind of self-portrait because they represent how she is feeling due to what is happening in her life at that time.

Her surroundings are very important to her…her subjects are places where she feels at ease and able to create.

 

Emily Smith Polyblank

Emily grew up on a smallholding surrounded by animals and has a deep understanding of their character and physique which she then translates through drawing into woodcuts. The grain of the wood predicts the outcome of the image.  Emily then hand colours her prints with earthy colours to define the cuts more clearly.

This exhibition features a lot of dogs. (Emily has always had dogs in her life).  She is developing her work to show movement, such as leaping and the speed of running, by concentrating on muscle shape and form. 

Unlike other relief printmakers who concentrate on technique and layering colours, Emily works instinctively with each piece of wood and how it can be manipulated. 

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Born in 1968 to parents that were both Painters in Art.
As soon as I could walk I was taken with sketching materials (and dogs) to draw the view. And encouraged on holidays to always sketch and paint. I was schooled at a Rudolph Steiner School, near Canterbury.
Did a Foundation Course at Maidstone.
Then BA Hons Degree in Fine Art Printing at Farnham, West Surrey College of Art.
My work is figurative, showing my everyday life.
I specialise in woodcuts, choosing pieces of wood for the beauty of the grain and drawing straight onto the wood, working with the grain and knots. Eventually cutting and taking into consideration as to whether to print in dark or light colours. Then once happy with the printing, working into each print by hand with water colour or pastels.

My work has been or is on shows in:
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Byard Art, Cambridge
West End House, Smarden
Creak Creative, Faversham
Forge 2 Gallery, Northampton
Noverre Gallery, Norwich
RA Summer Exhibition several times.
Mall Gallerys
Chaple Gallery, Devon
Bankside Gallery, London

 

Tony Smith

1939 – 1988

 

Born in Kent.  Studied at Medway College of Art, obtaining a National Diploma in Painting, Special in 1959, and then at Royal Academy Schools, graduating with an R.A. Certificate in 1962.

He taught at Medway, Canterbury K.A.D Adults in Ashford, Tonbridge Wells and the Metropole, Folkestone with Fed Cummings, Brian Oxley, Arthur Neal and Roy Oxlade.

Besides restoring several medieval houses, he taught and ran summer schools.

His Art earned the admiration and respect of his contemporise, and he was well on the way to a successful career, when it all ended with his untimely death.

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Young Contemporaries

R.A. Summer Exhibitions

Travelling Exhibition

New English Art Club

Mall Galleries

Society of Landscape Painters

Royal Portrait of British Artists

Pictures for Schools Exhibition

Drew Gallery

Neville Gallery

Eastern Rooms, Rye

Towner Gallery, Sussex

Lloyds Exhibition, Chatham

 

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