9 September–4 October 2023
Paintings and prints by Melvyn Evans with stoneware ceramics by Louise McNiff and special jewellery showcase from Alison Evans
You are warmly invited to join us in the gallery to celebrate the opening of the exhibition and meet the artists
Saturday 9th September from 10am to 5pm
The exhibition will then continue until Wednesday 4th October
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The work of Melvyn Evans conveys his love for the British countryside. Through the considered use of colour and shape, his paintings and lino prints embody a sense of place while exploring the bond between human endeavour and the landscape's dramatic, natural backdrop.
Melvyn has created a visual vocabulary, across his disciplines, that connects us to the past through landscape. Painting references printmaking, in the layers and texture that evoke a sense of history. Traces of previous marks, scratches, shapes, and colours creates a half-forgotten narrative running below the surface, mirroring the landscape from which they were inspired.
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Louise McNiff creates prints and produces hand-built ceramics in her studio, situated on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District. Her work is inspired by the landscape of the eastern moors where she loves to walk. The shapes, marks and colours found in Louise's work are rooted in her connection to this dramatic landscape.
Sgraffito lines are etched into leather-hard clay using handmade tools. Coloured slips are monoprinted, painted and stencilled to build layers of drawing, mark making and colour. Louise works intuitively, until she feels that she has reached a balance of colour, shape, line, and the experience of the landscape has been conveyed.
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Alison Evans has an international reputation for her distinctive contemporary jewellery based on the ancient techniques of chainmail. Her work explores the contrast between the natural environment and the manmade and industrial world.
All the individual links are made by hand using 18 carat gold, silver, and titanium, sometimes combining two or more metals to produce patterns, or using precious and semi-precious stones to add layers of colour and texture. Alison works from her rural Sussex based studio and has exhibited across the UK and internationally.
