Artweeks

Artweeks was a great success so a big thank you to everyone who came.The exhibition was an eclectic mix of work, comprising of photographs, paintings, colograph prints and mosaic pots. Artists Alison Parry and Joanna Hutt did very well and definitely worth keeping an eye on!

Joanna’s mosaic work is inspired by light and reflection. The pots are designed to stand where they can be touched by light. When sun light hits one of my pots the whole room becomes splattered with fragments of reflected light and looks quite breathtaking.

"Most of her mosaic work is done using broken materials. She likes everything to look as though it has just 'happened'. “I never use measurements and never try to plan anything too much. I guess I don't like the designs to look orderly or practiced!”

Alison is a contemporary artist who has recebtly graduated. The central locus of her work is memories. By exploring a variety of different techniques, such as paint, print, sound and video, Alison portrays her concept and ideas in many different ways.

The group of paintings shown in artweeks came from a series called Seasons. Each set of 4 deals with a different season, the change in weather, appearance within the landscape and her thoughts at the time. She has explored different paint and painting techniques, pushing the boundaries of what paint can do in order to depict the moment.

She uses distorted text in her work. She comments on the change both physically within the landscape and emotionally within her, her thoughts and feelings, prehaps those that she never wanted to fully reveal.