Exhibition in North Wales!

Open Space Wales - Helfa Gelf

Myself and Annette Cass will be exhibiting and opening the studio at Snowdonia Retreat to the pubic in Sept this year 2010. You can come and have a look at our work and watch us in action. The dates are as follows:

Friday 17th Sept 11am - 5 pm and 7pm to 9pm

Sat 18th Sept 11am - 5pm

Also

Fri 24th Sept 11am - 5pm and 7pm to 9pm

Sat 25th Sept 11am - 5pm

Sun 26th Sept 11am - 5pm

We would love to see you there, discuss our work and share our experiences

with you. There will be work for sale also.

You can see Annettes emotive abstracts on her website here Http://art.snowdonia-retreat.co.uk

There are also many other studios open at this time throughout North Wales so you may wish to make

a day or weekend of it and visit artists throughout the area. See the main Helfa Gelf site for details here http://www.helfagelf.org/

Artist Statement

My overall theme is basically about capturing and expressing the energy of a place or person, as I experience it. Exploring what it is about a place or person that triggers the feelings in me.

Currently I am interested in capturing the euphoria and emotional intensity I find in the mountains of North Wales. I have lived here for over 10 years now and walk, run and climb in the mountains never tiring of the moods, forms and varying light that I witness in the natural world. I aim to capture this in my work in both a figurative and abstracted sense, each emphasising the role that the actual forms play in that emotion.

I also really enjoy working with texture and incorporating elements of my environment into the painting itself, aiding expression and symbolism. The symbolic is something I work with on a daily basis in my work as a tarot reader, and as I am working with a scene or piece of work I am shown the symbolic meaning of what is being created, often times finding places in myself through what is showing itself on the canvas as I work.

My interest in feelings stems from many years ago when I found a fascination with how our emotions react to the outside world and how it is us the viewer who brings meaning to what is seen rather than the outside world itself being as concrete as sometimes we assume. I want to express the inner on the outer and if what I see is different from what you see, as you look at my work, all the better...

Purchasing work

Most of the work on this site is available to buy - some with the option of framed or unframed. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for details of sizes, prices and framing options. Commissions also accepted.