New Exhibition in the Lutyens Gallery - Pat Edwards-Jackson and Dil Roworth
Tue 31st August to Sun 19th September
New exhibition at Hestercombe - Pat Edwards-Jackson and Dil RoworthExhibition: Prints and Paintings
Pat Edwards-Jackson
"I originally trained in the social sciences and this continues to inform my work as an artist. I am interested in the human condition and notions of transformation and metamorphosis. My influences are drawn from avant-garde, surrealist film and art which in turn are heavily influenced by psychoanalytic theory.My art making concentrates primarily on painting and printmaking, although I occasionally work three dimensionally. I find that switching between the two can energise me and open up the opportunity for new ideas to develop a project.
Currently my printmaking concentrates on lino cut, which I re-discovered a couple of years ago. I like using lino because it allows a raw expressive mark making. I enjoy excavating the material and seeing the image develop. For me a piece has turned out well if it conveys the energy of the making. I work predominantly in monochrome preferring the sharp contrast this can create.
Occasionally I use colour sparingly, to highlight a particular aspect of an image.
My current work is influenced by my interest in the human condition which is analagous to performance. I am drawn to making playful, sometimes dark figurative imagery using animalistic forms to express this.
Over the past three years I have exhibited my work with Print south West and as a member of the Double Elephant Print workshop.
DIL ROWORTH, BA (Hons) Illustration
Dil has completed a varied list of illustrative commissions: from a brochure for the Exmoor National Park, to an international text book to aid with the teaching of Mandarin Chinese (which was a decidedly odd and rewarding task!) In between have been other illustrative commissions, including a nationally produced Christmas card for Woodmansterne greetings Cards.
Dil really dislikes being pigeon-holed into a single bracket, and likes to surprise. Although her first love is landscape painting, she also relishes the graphic and pleasing geometric order of Islamic design, a religion that created beauty out of non-figurative art. But she has chosen to take the balanced symmetry and take a swipe at it, shifting it, calling on Mondrian’s dislike of green and love of line.
Dil also loves a visual pun, which has inspired her ‘box’ series, taking the word ’box’ and giving it a prefix, such as ‘mailbox’ and ‘window-box’ and painting a deep edge canvas and giving it a new meaning. These images make an ideal and affordable present for the kitchen or bathroom!