8 October 2020 - additional exhibition: Forgotten Places
This is a two person show featuring leading contemporary British artist Tim Goffe, and Mari French one of Norfolk's leading abstract artists and a regular with us at Gallery East. Both artists successfully exhibit around the UK. More information about the artists and works in the exhibition to follow shortly:
Tim captures scenes of contemporary urban living spaces, with just fleeting glances of people, and industrial landscapes often ignored by the passing eye. Tim's background as a photographer gives us a unique perspective on these forgotten spaces. His work has been selected for the RA Summer Show for the last couple of years and he is waiting on news of his 2 work entry for 2020. He is also a finalist of 2 other 2020 awards, the John Moore's Painting Prize and the Jackson's Painting Prize.
The roots of Mari's paintings lie in her deep-seated affinity with landscape and weather, capturing the elemental forces of these wild and less visited landscapes. She grew up close to the Pennines, worked for several years on Skye and now lives in Norfolk. The work we are including in this show is from her Dungeness series in which the industrial landscape peaks through the barren yet full atmospheric coastline.
12 November 2020- The Narrative of Trees
Co-curated with Dr Angela Summerfield and the well known Arborealist group of artists, founded by Tim Craven in 2013, we will be exploring our love of trees and their meaning for our personal and collective identity.
Jane Human, Autumn Woodland
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Patricia Cain. Forest II
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Perienne Christian / In the Gloaming
Angela Summerfield / Parklands / Chalk pastel
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Kate Giles / Hawthorn(Late Spring, Burnham Thorpe)
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Featured artists include: Emma Buckmaster and Janet French, Patricia Cain, Claire Casnick, Perienne Christian, Lara Cobden, Blaze Cyan, Kate Giles, Jane Human, Caroline Poole, Nahem Shoa, Angela Summerfield.
"We all bring and take stories and memories from the trees, forests and woods we visit, whether in the country or towns and cities. This exhibition, The Narrative of Trees, explores this enduring relationship we share with trees through the work of respected contemporary artists from East Anglia, London and Gloucestershire. We see the work naturally drifting into a number of categories; Cultural Heritage celebrating iconic trees or woods, Living Memorials of trees honouring a life or signifying a place, trees as Places of Well-Being and Continuity, tree drawings as Forms of Portraiture, and trees capturing a Future or Imagined state." (Dr Angela Summerfield).
"We all bring and take stories and memories from the trees, forests and woods we visit, whether in the country or towns and cities. This exhibition, The Narrative of Trees, explores this enduring relationship we share with trees through the work of respected contemporary artists from East Anglia, London and Gloucestershire. We see the work naturally drifting into a number of categories; Cultural Heritage celebrating iconic trees or woods, Living Memorials of trees honouring a life or signifying a place, trees as Places of Well-Being and Continuity, tree drawings as Forms of Portraiture, and trees capturing a Future or Imagined state." (Dr Angela Summerfield).
May 2021 Wilhelmina Barns- Graham (1912 - 2004) and Patricia Cain PS, ARWS, NEAC
Wilhelmina Barns- Graham/Millennium Pink 2000 (limited edition print)
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham/Water Dance, Porthmeor No.II 2004 (limited edition print)
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Patricia Cain/ The Descending Blue -that blue is all in a rush
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Patricia Cain/Black on White
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (Willie) was one of the key influencers of Modern British Art and an early member of the St Ives School. We will be showing Willie's work alongside that of Scottish artist Patricia Cain. Patricia has had many solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely in Scotland and England, including a major exhibition at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow called Drawing (on) the Riverside. In 2013 Patricia was awarded an RSA residency through the Barns - Graham Trust at Balmungo House in Fife, Scotland. One of her paintings from this residency won the RWS Award at the RWS Contemporary Competition in 2014. We are very grateful to Rob Airey, Director of the Barns- Graham Trust for his support in putting this exhibition together.
