Neurodoodles Wendy Jasmine Johnson
My work is an outpouring of my thoughts and feelings on to
canvas in the form of doodles, which were originally inspired by
the work of the late Willem de Kooning, but now they've taken on
a life of their own.
Trace Diana Frasca, Julie Liebling, Anna Groom,
Margaret Johnson, Fin Robinson and Chris Maxwell 6th - 17th March
A collective
of six emerging artists whose work explores the theme of 'trace'
through each exhibitor's chosen medium.
praesentia Caryl Beach, Sally Tyrie and Veronica
Grassi
In celebration of the rich heritage and landscape of Hertford,
praesentia are exhibiting new work in response to this theme to
include drawing, painting, print-making, photography and
sculpture. Fine artist and photographer, Caryl Beach is
particularly interested in the landscape and often overlooked
evidence of human occupation. For experimental printmaker and
fine artist Sally Tyrie, the fine line and traces of nature's
presence inspire her unique mark-making. Veronica Grassi will
explore the delicate balance in the local environment using the
mediator of stitch, soluble film and iron wire.
Courtyard Open Various
Artists
Courtyard
Arts 2012 Open will be held at Courtyard Arts. The judges will
be Bob Bagalley (fine art printmaker), James Copper (Henry Moore
Foundation) and Carolyn Perry (tapestry weaver). The judges, as
in previous years, will select the work for exhibition and
choose the prizewinners. Image above: last year's Open
Exhibition winning entry, Sister A by Brian Reeves.
Horsnell 1932-2011 - Lionel Hornsell
Lionel Horsnell was a well-known Hertford artist for many years, often seen cycling around the town and neighbouring villages, toting his paints and easel, or working outdoors capturing local streets and landscapes. This retrospective exhibition of local scenes and those from his wider travels is a tribute to his life and work.
New Material: A Student Collaboration - Various Artists
This
is a group exhibition which brings together four emerging
artists currently studying Fine Art at the University of
Hertfordshire. The exhibition, entitled New Material aims to
showcase new artworks in a range of different mediums from
photography to installation. The exhibitors hope that this
will stimulate new ideas and discussions within contemporary
art.
Chinese Whispers - Jenny Alderson, Judith Coxell, Marian Hall, Sue Hickman, Debbie Lewis Brindley and Jan Simpson
Drawing on the children’s game of Chinese Whispers, this exhibition shows what happened when six artists each created a textile ‘whisper’, passing it to the next member of the group to use as inspiration for another textile, which the recipient, in turn passed to the next member. Six beginnings, a journey through thirty six textiles, six surprising endings.
Members’ Christmas Show
Courtyard now has more than 120 members who each have the opportunity to exhibit at least one piece of work each in the annual members show. There will be a range of 2D and 3D work on display.
Courtyard Arts Classes
Showcase
The
classes
showcase exhibition brings a range of work from our students,
young and old, including mixed media, ceramics, fused glass,
water based media and life drawing.
MESCH at The Courtyard - Various Artists
MESCH is a group of experienced exhibiting textile artists who have worked together for many years. Vanda Campbell, Liz Evans, Mavis Howard, Marian Murphy and Margaret Starr each bring different styles and skills to the group. Living within a twenty mile radius, they meet together regularly to encourage and support each other.
Wandering Room - Donna Leighton
“I
use mixed media for my wandering rooms. Using a combination of
printed matter, paint and ink I can suggest a dream like room
which may lead to another space beyond it.”
Strangely Familiar - Jane Davalle & Glynnis Bainbridge
To make the familiar strange is to distort,
invert or transpose the everyday ways of looking and
responding which render the world a secure and familiar
place. We have made a conscious attempt to achieve a new
look at the same old world, people, ideas, feelings and
objects. “Making the familiar strange” - we saw this
quotation when visiting the Gauguin Exhibition at the Tate
Modern and were thus inspired!
One of Courtyard Arts’ resident artists, Paul Fennell returns with an exhibition of paintings and drawings. “Farrago” is an eclectic mix ofsubjects in a variety of media.
The Four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water - Nicola Troll
The first solo exhibition from local artistNicola Troll showcases her etchings. The title reflects both the elements of the traditional printmaking processesshe uses as well as the nature inspired subjects of her work. She aims to capture the elemental forces in nature and to make the viewer reassess their surroundings. With this exhibition she offersan opportunity to review some of her older work as well as offering new pieces that expand the horizons of her work.
Impressions of Languedoc - Various Artists
In May, ten painters went to the South of France on Bryan’s French painting holiday. They painted the fabulous scenery of Catharcountry and the iconic seaside village of Collioure, where Matisse painted. See the results of their artistic odyssey in the ‘Impressions of Languedoc’ show.
Clare Pomeroy - Artist In Residence
This
year, University of Hertfordshire fine art graduate Clare
Pomeroy is in residence during August. She will be using
the gallery to install and make work as well as to exhibit
and will be available most days to discuss her work with
the public. Clare is a painter who through a process of
material enquiry explores a discourse of paint and object.
Charles and John Rawnsley
A
collection of Digital images of the UK and Europe.After
the invention of the photographic process in the early
part of the 19th century nothing much happened until the
20thcentury when John Rawnsley got serious with a camera.
Charles Rawnsley (son of John) became equally serious at
16.35 on September 16th 2006. Both have mastered the art
of making the obvious, magnificent, the unexceptional,
delightful and the bland, sumptuous.
James Moss: TEN
Ten years since graduating from HRC in Ware, Moss returns to his hometown of Hertford to celebrate a decade of exhibitions and awards. Moss has lived and exhibited across the world, from Manchester & Cambridge to Tokyo and Paris, each city inspiring and informing his intricate mixed-media paintings.
The Shape of Memory- Heather Jukes
This Exhibition explores the subject of human memories using body shaped fragments and fragments of text.
Heather Jukes is a Fine Art practitioner with a background in genetics. She has always been interested in alternative ways of exploring the body’s identity – as shadows, as DNA sequences, and, in her most recent work as shaped fragments which follow the body’s contours. These forms are reminiscent of the shed skin a snake leaves behind or the empty chrysalis after an insect pupates. They carry a memory of the shape of what was before.
There are references in Heather
Jukes’ work to the paper garments created by Susan Cutts (we
shape the clothes we wear, making them as individual as a
thumbprint); and the ideas explored by Olivier Goulet in his
Skinbag series, where skin is reclassified as a fabric for
making. She has also been influenced by the work of
displaced Cuban artist Ana Mendieta, whose Siluetas were
hollowed out of the earth to leave memories of her body in
the landscape.
The Shape of Memory is a University of Westminster MA degree exhibition.
Anatomy in Art- Christopher Benton
Chris Benton is a
neuro-radiographer at UCLH and has also been painting for
many years. In this show he uses scans and x-rays to provide
inspiration and subject matter for his artwork.
Magic Makers - Courtyard Arts’ Tutors’
Show
An exhibition of
painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles and glass, brought
to you by eight of the tutors working at Courtyard Arts.
Image: Emily’s Shoes by Jane
Davalle.
Fancy! - HRC Staff
Exhibition
An exhibition by members of the teaching staff of the
Creative Arts and Industries Department at the Ware
Centre,
Hertford Regional College. Exhibitors include: Mark
Barrand, Christopher Bond, Ben Connors, Holly Darton, John
Little, Sara Saunders and Peer Towers.
Kasia and Mariusz Kaldowski
An exhibition of acrylic and watercolour images of nature, landscapes, gardens and animals.
Courtyard Open 2011
Courtyard Arts’ Open Exhibition in 2011 will be shown in the Gallery at the newly revamped Hertford Theatre. Submissions will be invited, and selection and judging on merit, innovation and concept will be by a panel of independent artists and other visual arts professionals.
Image shown: last year’s Open Exhibition winning entry,
Penaeus monodon, colour luminigram, Heather Jukes.
Old Beginnings - Christina Pattison
The Sea, in all its simplicity and complexity, is the main focus in this show. The artist will also be showing ceramics in bold, bright colours.
Other Dimensions - Franklyn Beckford & Julie Scarr
Franklyn Beckford and Julie Scarr are
arts’ graduates, old friends and co-exhibitors. Their
exhibition explores a range of media and ideas
incorporating collage, paint and ‘other dimensions’.
I Give You Colour - Carolyn Perry
An exhibition of woven tapestries inspired by a range of sources but all exploring the power of colour to imply mood, emotion and optimism.
Wind, Sea and Sky - Karen Delahay Group
Wind, Sea and Sky will show work by artists from the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Paintings, photographs, digital art, sculptures
and ceramics inspired by
Purbeck and the Jurassic Coast.
Starting something new is not always easy
Hertford Regional College
The first year Fine Art students started their two year Foundation Degree in Sept 2010. They will curate & exhibit current work. They focus on individuality, discovery, technical knowledge & critical awareness. Professional practice is an essential aspect of the course, such as taking part in exhibitions. Students explore their practice through a range of media including painting,
drawing, print-making, installation
& photography.
Different Frame of Mind
Westminster Drugs Project
Different Frame of Mind proudly showcases the first exhibition from a group of aspiring local artists. Their shared
creative passion has been nurtured at
the Hertford based drug and alcohol charity, Westminster
Drugs Project.
Remembered Landscape
Charles Long
“My work is about a view of the land from a kind of remembered perspective - stored memories from the many visits I have made since childhood until the present.”
Courtyard Arts Members’ Christmas Show
We are responding to requests
from some of you to hang more work than usual, so the show
will be slightly more closely spaced this time.
Impressions of Languedoc
Various Artists
Shows the work of 6 artists inspired by Matisse's Collioure, vineyards & castles when they travelled to paint together in May 2010.
Horse: Julie Cooper
An exhibition of drawings and
paintings by Julie Cooper and photographs
by Lucie Cooper on the theme of HORSE.
Experimental mixed media on the theme of identity. Exhibitors: Julie Cooper, Susan James Dean, Barbara Jepps, Terry Sadler and Julie Scarr.
Inspired by Verse - The Six of Us
A group of female artists, with work inspired by an eclectic selection of poets including Omar Khayyám, Thomas Hardy and Mark Doty.
Palimpsest
Graduate artists who hold similar conceptions in the making of art but relate their own ideas and aims of expression. Exhibitors: Anne Allanson, Jean Atkinson, Elaine Etkind, Mitzie Green, Paula Stanley and Fiona Zobole.
This year invited Fine Artist Loraine Perry will be taking up the residency, focusing on time and space and light and culminating in a week long exhibition.
Open Studios Showcase
An exhibition showcasing work by Open Studios participants in East Hertfordshire, of differing disciplines.
Unpeopled Places: New Photographs - Ashley & Annabel Friedlein
Ashley and Annabel Friedlein present new, large-scale photographs taken in Reykjavik, Iceland; Penzance, Cornwall and Capri, Italy. The images explore the identity of busy places and much-used objects when people are absent, with reference to the Eric Ormsby poem Transient Magic.
A Quiet Place - Gillian Mackenna
1939-2009 Retrospective - Mary Bourne
Drawn Together Again - Andrew Willson, Christine Moss, Irene Robson and Sally Hutchings
This exhibition is a reunion of four Fine Art students who have moved their practice on in different ways since finishing their course. We have taken as our inspiration the question “what were you doing last summer?”
Simply Illustration - Cambridge Illustrators
Amy Rupall, Corrina Dunlea, Riina Driscoll and Emmeline Webb present illustration in the 21st Century.
Jenny Alderson, Judith Coxell, Sue Fairhurst, Jenny Giles, Sue Hickman, Pauline Knowles, Davida Macdonald, Annie Miller and Marion Wale have joined forces to create Full Circle, a working and exhibiting group whose individual members are committed to the promotion of textile-based works that demonstrate skill and creative integrity. Eclectic is their body of new work in which differences in material, scale, technique and concept are linked by the makers' passion for textiles in its many forms.
Never Forget - Sculpture, Drawing and Video by Ivan Daggett
Orpheus’ love Eurydice is bitten by a serpent and dies; in his grief he pleads to the gods of the underworld for her life. Orpheus’ wish is granted on the condition that whilst leaving the underworld he must not look back else she would remain there forever. On the verge of leaving he forgets. Ivan has been working as a fine artist and a lecturer in further education for twenty years. His recent work is an intuitive exploration and expression of the Orpheus and Eurydice story from early Greek mythology.
Dissection For Perfection MJ Bouchier
Through questioning beauty and the methods of how it can be attained, MJ Bouchier's work provocatively explores the relationships between a woman's body image and the quest for an idealised female form.
Landscapes & Gardens Kasia & Mariusz Kaldowski
The exhibition is a collection of paintings showing the splendour of English parks and gardens.
Courtyard Arts Classes Showcase
A collection of works from our child and adult classes, mixed media, watercolour and ceramics.
