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'LANDMARKS' PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
Thursday 5th July - Sunday 22nd July 2007
This exhibition is a rich, eclectic mix of artists
based in Pembrokeshire and Mid-Wales, positionally marking out
their own unique responses and understanding of landscape and
nature. Fine bronze figurative renditions of animal and bird forms
by acclaimed artist Denis Curry
are testimony to his deep and searching fascination with the mechanics
of animal movement and anatomy. Haverfordwest sculptor Perryn
Butler's inspiration lies more with expressing how the
human race interacts with nature. Darren
Yeadon has created a wonderfully lyrical sculpture 'Whale'
made with the same Carrara marble as used by Michelangelo. An
enduring interest in the new physics and use of wide ranging materials
informs 3D works of Brecon environmental artist Antonia
Spowers which sometimes edge on the conceptual. Veronica
Gibson, also from Brecon works directly in landscape, giving
her oil paintings a tremendous vitality, equally apparent in the
studio worked landscapes of Preseli artist Andie
Clay. The artistic skills of interpreting the qualities
of the Pembrokeshire landscape, in handling of colour, form and
line, the marking out of the landscape, are a constant fascination
to painters Daniel Backhouse, Graham Brace,
Maggie Brown, Grahame Hurd-Wood, Andy Ellis, Carole King,
and Glenn Ibbitson.
Rich local mythology of Pembrokeshire triggers the creative imagination
of Haverfordwest painter Marijke Braaksma,
producing highly energised and colourful figure paintings of St.
Non and St Justinian (head in hand).
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