If you are in the area, do drop in to the Old Fire Engine House in Ely near Cambridge, to see our exhibition which will be open until 29th March.

http://www.theoldfireenginehouse.co.uk/exhibitions.htm

LAND MARKS

A new exhibition of work by
Jane Strother
Ella Clocksin

Feb 6th – Mar 29th 2020
The Old Fire Engine House
Ely, Cambs.

Both contemporary painters’ work concerns landscapes that have long borne the marks of human activity or intervention. Their responses to human marks in the environment are mediated through their individual sensibilities in composition, colour, mark-making and degrees of abstraction.

Jane Strother

is exhibiting a selection of painting and drawing from her ongoing Fragile Habitats series, work that is informed by observation of our environment in Britain. The ‘fragility’ refers to land affected by natural and human forces and includes coastal areas, private gardens and woodland.

As a studio landscape painter, I devise and build a final image through many stages and layers of paint away from the location. Initially, an arrangement of forms or motifs informed by quick drawings made on site (recording look, feel, energy) and importantly, of integrity to the subject, are established. The work is resolved through construction (and deconstruction) of composition, colour, mark-making and abstraction.

This adherence to the ‘truth’ can prompt marked differences in my work from one series to another, in choice of colour palette, of scale and mass, of mark. I am excited by composition, colour proportion and value relationships, the quality of a mark and its location, the palpable nature of the painted surface.

Subjects are rooted in landscape. The work records a personal response to fragile ecologies (land/sea margins, threatened green belt) as well as more domesticated environments. A life time's enthusiasm for topography, natural habitat and wild life, particularly botany, suggests the detail in an image.

Examples from the Catalogue:

Urban Garden, Hollyhocks, oil on canvas, 1000mm x 1120mm £1800 — Urban Garden, Hollyhocks, oil on canvas, 1000mm x 1120mm sold

Winter Garden, Blue, oil on canvas, 600mm x 600mm £500 — Winter Garden, Blue, oil on canvas, 600mm x 600mm sold

Walled Garden, October Afternoon, oil on canvas, 300mm x 400mm £390 — Walled Garden, October Afternoon, oil on canvas, 300mm x 400mm sold

Walled Garden, September Afternoon, charcoal, chalk drawing £500 — Walled Garden, September Afternoon, charcoal, chalk drawing sold

Shingle Street Series, with Sea Lettuce, oil on canvas 250mm x 300mm £390 — Shingle Street Series, with Sea Lettuce, oil on canvas 250mm x 300mm £sold

Big Tree Series, Acrylic on canvas, 600mm x 600mm £500 — Big Tree Series, Acrylic on canvas, 600mm x 600mm sold

Big Tree Series, Great Tew, oil on canvas, 500mm x 700mm £700 — Big Tree Series, Great Tew, oil on canvas, 500mm x 700mm sold

Rookery, Boskenna, oil on canvas, 750mm x 750mm £650 — Rookery, Boskenna, oil on canvas, 750mm x 750mm sold

Shingle Street Series, Horned Poppy with Coastguard Cottages, oil on canvas, £600 — Shingle Street Series, Horned Poppy with Coastguard Cottages, oil on canvas, sold

Shingle Street Series with Sea Lettuce and Ragwort, oil on board 250mm x 300mm £310 — Shingle Street Series with Sea Lettuce and Ragwort, oil on board 250mm x 300mm sold

Across the Valley, Aveton Gifford, oil on Canvas 250mm x 300mm £325 — Across the Valley, Aveton Gifford, oil on Canvas 250mm x 300mm sold

Big Tree series charcoal on paper, unframed £190 — Big Tree series charcoal on paper, unframed

North Sea Edge, on the Ness oil on paper 210mm x 190mm £290 — North Sea Edge, on the Ness oil on paper 210mm x 190mm sold

Big Tree series, January Oak, oil on canvas, 600mm x 600mm £500 — Big Tree series, January Oak, oil on canvas, 600mm x 600mm

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