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TREADING LIGHTLY
A celebration of the simple life through works of art.

8th June – 7th August 2010

EDWINA BRIDGEMAN, TRACY REES, SUE MARSHALL, JAMES CAMPBELL, LIZZIE FAREY, MAGIE HOLLINGWORTH, SUZANNE POTTER, ANNIE HEWETT, JAMES BARNSLEY, FIONA CAMPBELL with JOHN MALTBY & CHARLOTTE JONES.

As the title implies, ‘TREADING LIGHTLY’ is a reflection of current concerns with our carbon footprint, albeit frequently interpreted with humour.

Celebrated artists all, some of the exhibitors use materials of humble origin in their work, e.g. willow, discarded objects, waste paper, clay, plant-dyed wool, scrap metal   whilst others focus on homely comforts, wild flowers and minimally drawn landscape.
Bringing all harmoniously together in Yew Tree’s two gallery rooms is the sense of pleasure gleaned from familiar things, activities or viewpoints.  No aspirations to a glitzy, ‘celeb’ culture are visible here!


EDWINA BRIDGEMAN conveys the poetry in the everyday.  Her narrative constructions from wood and multifarious found objects bring new life to unwanted things.  They highlight the joy of simple delights and the endurance of the human spirit

Edwina Bridgeman - Tree of Life

Tree of Life   Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   

Edwina Bridgeman

Girl on a horse Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   


Edwina Bridgeman

Stable   Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   

Edwina Bridgeman

Caravan  Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   


Edwina Bridgeman - In the Garden

In the garden   Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   

Edwina Bridgeman - angel holding the world

Small Angel Holding the World   Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   

Edwina Bridgeman - Cradle

Cradle   Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   

Edwina Bridgeman - Kennel

Kennel   Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   

Edwina Bridgeman - Storm in a teacup

Storm in a Teacup   Edwina Bridgeman
mixed media   

 

TRACY REES allows family pets supremacy in the home.  Their idiosyncrasies often ape those of their human owners in her amusing paintings.  Comfort is the peak of their desires.  The duality of their wildness and polite domesticity is visible in many of the paintings.

Tracy Rees

Lazy Bones Tracy Rees
acrylic   

Tracy Rees

Sweet Dreams Tracy Rees
acrylic   



Paradise Regained Tracy Rees
acrylic   

Tracy Rees

Patchwork Tracy Rees
acrylic   



Tracy Rees

The Rose Teapot Tracy Rees
acrylic   

Tracy Rees

Guilty Pleasures  Tracy Rees
acrylic   


The rich hues of natural dyes give SUE MARSHALL’s woven rugs and blankets a sensuous appeal.   Her designs owe much to her Scandinavian background as well as to traditional Peruvian and Navajo imagery. Plants and lichens picked around her Cornish studio are used to dye her Swedish wools and linens.

Woven wall-hanging Sue Marshall
woven rug
51" x 51"

Zig-zag    Sue Marshall
woven rug
48" x 34"

Sue Marshall

Triangles and Stripes  Sue Marshall
woven rug

Sue Marshall

Blue zig-zag     Sue Marshall
woven rug

LIZZIE FAREY uses locally sourced materials for her willow wall sculptures.  An impressive tally of awards and exhibitions, both national and international, give due recognition to the unique quality of her work.  She treats her material with respect and empathy, never distorting or forcing the willow into alien forms.

Lizzie Farley - Golden Leaves

Golden Leaves Lizzie Farey
willow wall piece    

Lizzie Farey - Swallow

Swallow Lizzie Farey
willow wall piece    

A sense of space pervades JAMES CAMPBELL’s new watercolours and pastel drawings.  The essence of land- or sea-scape is expressed in broad sweeping brushstrokes which somehow envelope the onlooker. The emptiness invites one in.   His are peaceful and meditative images which transmit calmness.

James Campbell

The Encircling Hill James Campbell
watercolour

James Campbell

The Bridge James Campbell
watercolour

James Campbell

The Bay   James Campbell
watercolour

James Campbell

Headlands I James Campbell
watercolour

The most commonly discarded material - paper - is transformed by MAGIE HOLLINGWORTH into bowls of delicate beauty.  Working with paper for 30 years, Magie has invented many methods for creating different effects -  from deeply textured platters, wall panels incorporating plant material, decorated, gessoed bowls to the feather-light translucent vessels with pierced decoration in this exhibition.

Magie Hollingworth

Pierced bowl     Magie Hollingworth
paper

Maggie Hollingworth

New bowls       Magie Hollingworth
paper

SUZANNE POTTER works mainly in silver.  Most of her imagery comes from observation of wild flowers such as buttercups and cranesbills, honed to the simplest of shapes in necklaces, long-stem earrings and bracelets.  Unexpectedly, a few of her designs incorporate brightly coloured felt - to great decorative effect.

Suzanne Potter

Floral longstem earrings   Suzanne Potter
silver


Suzanne Potter

Snowdrop garland brooch    Suzanne Potter
silver

Suzanne Potter

Cranesbill brooch   Suzanne Potter
silver

Suzanne Potter

Cranesbill Chain    Suzanne Potter
silver

Stylised motifs of leaves and plants engraved through a cobalt slip carry the assured skills of a graphic designer in ANNIE HEWETT’S ceramic tableware.  This illustrative quality is equally expressed in her ‘retro’ range where the soft colours hark back to the post-war days of refreshing new work from artist-designers of the ‘50s.

Annie Hewett

Engraved jug and mug    Annie Hewett
 

Annie Hewett

Retro bowls         Annie Hewett
 

Annie Hewett

Retro plate, cup & saucer  Annie Hewett
 

Annie Hewett

Tall jug and cup Annie Hewett
 

Outside in the gardens are glass fibre and wood sculptures by JAMES BARNSLEY which explore new forms and relationships with space, whilst others are designed to sway in the wind.

James Barnsley

Embrace I   James Barnsley
glass fibre, wood   

James Barnsley

Wave James Barnsley
glass fibre, wood   

FIONA CAMPBELL’s larger-than-life Dragonfly and Bumblebee created from scrap steel and wire stalk through the vegetation of the walled garden giving rise to the thought that myriads of such creatures abound around us!

Fiona Campbell

Dragonfly  Fiona Campbell
mixed media  

Fiona Campbell

Bumblebee Fiona Campbell
mixed media  
Working with stoneware clay, JOHN MALTBY has become renowned for his figurative sculpture.  He has evolved a particular style of imagery that reveals a touch of humour underlined by a certain poignancy - reflecting aspects of the human condition.  His figures and birds have  an enduring, timeless quality which is echoed in his treatment of the clay, incised marks standing out against dark red oxides or slate greys, giving the appearance of weathered stone or bronze.

John Maltby

Bird on Cornish Rock  John Maltby
stoneware

John Maltby

Windblown Figure and Sea Wall  John Maltby
stoneware

John Maltby

Figures and a Tree  John Maltby
stoneware

John Maltby

Mounted Gardening Angel   John Maltby
stoneware/wood

CHARLOTTE JONES uses clay in a very different way. She hand-builds bowls from local clays, blending their different hues into an abstract depiction of the landscape and shorelines around her Cornish home. Rather than glazing, she burnishes the vessels with a pebble, producing a surface that “echoes wind-polished geology”.

Charlotte Jones

Green gorse bowl      Charlotte Jones
ceramic

Charlotte Jones

Seaweed bowl      Charlotte Jones
ceramic

Available to be seen in this show too are pots by MORAG MacINNES, JILL FANSHAWE KATO, CHRIS BARNES, JUDITH ROWE and jewellery by RITA SERES.
Images can be viewed via e-mail by request to gilly@yewtreegallery.com

ENQUIRIES about prices for all the exhibits, illustrated invitations, and further works available, can be made to Gilly Wyatt Smith on 01736 786425.

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