Two Ways of Seeing - Rosemary Goodenough and Jules George 21 May to 2 July
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These two artists capture a marvellous range of atmosphere – from veils of mist to the piercing shafts of last light. Their subjects need not be dramatic to call forth a profound response.
Amanda Geitner, Director, East Anglia Art Fund April 2022
Full hard copy catalogue available from 11 May with full review by Amanda Geitner. Please contact us to receive a copy or to attend the PV.
These two artists capture a marvellous range of atmosphere – from veils of mist to the piercing shafts of last light. Their subjects need not be dramatic to call forth a profound response.
Amanda Geitner, Director, East Anglia Art Fund April 2022
Full hard copy catalogue available from 11 May with full review by Amanda Geitner. Please contact us to receive a copy or to attend the PV.
Jules George /Sunset on the Alde /Oil on Board 24cm x 30cm / £975
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Rosemary Goodenough /Tumbling Spring Flowers/ Oil on Panel /64 x 73cm /£3,700
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Rosemary Goodenough is a painter and sculptor. She works in the contemporary impressionist tradition, painting with knives, cloths and her hands on panel or board. Her work is collected internationally and held in private collections in Geneva, New York, Tennessee, Boston, Cape Town, Paris, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Norfolk and Northamptonshire amongst other places. She lives in Norfolk with her husband Michael Waller-Bridge.
Moments of representation appear in Goodenough’s work - a copse of trees or fallen petals from a flower – conjure places remembered or convey the beauty of both life and decay. Perhaps even more evocative is the artist’s construction of space within her paintings. Deepest pools of colour are brought to the surface with impasto that is applied with hands and palette knives. Thinner veils of colour are applied with a cloth, the different areas of the painting worked with the corresponding hand. - Amanda Geitner, Director East Anglia Art Fund April 2022
Go to catalogue of all Rosemary's works in this exhibition.
Moments of representation appear in Goodenough’s work - a copse of trees or fallen petals from a flower – conjure places remembered or convey the beauty of both life and decay. Perhaps even more evocative is the artist’s construction of space within her paintings. Deepest pools of colour are brought to the surface with impasto that is applied with hands and palette knives. Thinner veils of colour are applied with a cloth, the different areas of the painting worked with the corresponding hand. - Amanda Geitner, Director East Anglia Art Fund April 2022
Go to catalogue of all Rosemary's works in this exhibition.
Rosemary Goodenough /A Copse in Summer, Norfolk /Oil on board / 88 x 75cm / £7,500
Jules George has been a professional artist since leaving Staffordshire University in 1992. He completed his masters at Edinburgh College of Art in 1998 and now lives and works in Suffolk. He has exhibited in a number of one man and group shows in the UK and abroad. Highlights include ‘Into the Valley – Scenes of an Afghan Conflict’ shown at Bonhams, London 2011 and Bonhams, Edinburgh 2012, ‘Promenade’ at the Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh 2008 and ‘It’s No Palm Beach’ shown at The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh 2004/05.His work has been commissioned and collected by individuals and organisations including Edinburgh City Council, Laing O’Rourke, National Army Museum, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Southampton University and York Art Gallery.
In George’s work colour vibrates with the light in radiant pinks, vivid blues, hazed purples, deepest greens. There are figures moving through these scenes, bringing fleeting life to landscapes that hold immense history, making powerful witness to many centuries and countless lives. As a war artist, George’s purpose was to capture the tumult of the moment swiftly and accurately. Returning to the landscapes of home, these works bring counterbalance and solace. There is great peace within these ancient locations. George now captures places of enduring beauty, distant signals relayed to the present. A light is made, messages are received - Amanda Geitner, Director East Anglia Art Fund April 2022.
Go to catalogue of all Jules's works in this exhibition.
In George’s work colour vibrates with the light in radiant pinks, vivid blues, hazed purples, deepest greens. There are figures moving through these scenes, bringing fleeting life to landscapes that hold immense history, making powerful witness to many centuries and countless lives. As a war artist, George’s purpose was to capture the tumult of the moment swiftly and accurately. Returning to the landscapes of home, these works bring counterbalance and solace. There is great peace within these ancient locations. George now captures places of enduring beauty, distant signals relayed to the present. A light is made, messages are received - Amanda Geitner, Director East Anglia Art Fund April 2022.
Go to catalogue of all Jules's works in this exhibition.
Jules George /The Oak / Oil on paper / 38 x 54cm /£2,200
This exhibition features recent work by these two artists, Rosemary Goodenough from Norfolk and Jules George from Suffolk, bringing together two distinct approaches to the landscape. The title of the exhibition draws on the influential 1972 television series and subsequent book by John Berger, Ways of Seeing, which explored the ways in which ‘every image embodies a way of seeing’ and how we look and express what we see reveals something of significance about us.