Louise Darby

celebrates

25 YEARS AT CLAY BARN

WINTER EXHIBITION

28 NOV – 1 DEC 2008

CLAY BARN 2008

WINTER EXHIBITION

‘Light and Line’

Fri 28 November – Mon 1 December 2008

Open 10 till 4

for four days only

Louise Darby – Ceramics and Photographs

Over the last 25 years Louise has been working in clay – at Clay Barn. Known for her finely thrown stoneware and porcelain - simple forms - with incised, banded, sgraffito or pierced decoration.

More recently she has introduced her photography into exhibitions along side her ceramics. These encompass a wide inspirational subject matter from light, line, form, colour and texture.

Belinda Gilbert
& Stephen Nicholls – jewellery

Belinda and Stephen produce classic and contemporary jewellery using strong shape, texture and clean line, individually made in gold, platinum / silver with matt and polished textures, embellished with diamonds, precious stones and unusual shaped and coloured pearls.

Jan Rawnsley - paintings

Jan works in oil, acrylic and mixed media. Her work expresses her emotional responses to her subject and moves from realism towards abstraction, especially influenced by her love of sea and sky, exploring the ever changing drama of light, reflection and colour at sea and on shore.

Kate Risdale – metal sculpture

Kate’s unique making process has been likened to “drawing in steel“. Her art has a light, fluid sensitivity despite the unyielding nature of the medium. She instils life into her work. It is suitable for outside and inside, incorporating the natural oxidizing process within the work.

Pauline Thomas – embroidery

Pauline uses the sewing machine needle as her pencil, developing the single line of thread into a colourful and three dimensional world of stitch. Her innovative techniques with sheer fabrics and sensitive use of production machinery produces items enriched with metallic threads.

Jude Tucker – stone carving

Studying stone masonry at Bath, Jude continued in London where she designed and carved grotesques for St Georges’ Chapel, Windsor. She captures plant life in stone, and simplifying natural forms to abstraction, her work ranges from indoor relief’s to garden sculptures.

Louise selects fellow exhibitors whose work reflect similar qualities/inspirational sources to her own and are at one with the very special environment of her venue.

Visitors are able to meet the artists and find out how they go about their work.

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