29 March–23 April 2025
Trevor Price, Melvyn Evans, Sarah Lees & Stuart Anderson
A new show of prints by Trevor Price and Melvyn Evans with paintings by Sarah Lees and sculpture by Stuart Anderson opens on Saturday 29th March
You are warmly invited to join us in the gallery for drinks and nibbles to celebrate the opening of the exhibition from 10am to 5pm
The exhibition continues until Wednesday 23rd April
Gallery open 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday
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Trevor Price lives and works next to the sea. A full time printmaker and part time beach lifeguard, he specialises in finely detailed drypoint and engraved relief prints and large scale woodcuts that unsurprisingly depict the ocean.
Woodblocks and polycarbonate sheets are carved, scratched and engraved using chisels, blades and power tools. The surfaces are then rolled with ink and printed onto paper through a large etching press. It can easily take two months of platemaking with the larger works before the first proof is taken. With little room for error this first proof can be an anxious moment.
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The work of Melvyn Evans conveys his love for the British countryside. These new works look at our interactions with the landscape, celebrating and honouring our connections with the land.
"In 'Sea Harmonies' stylised figures merge with land shapes alluding to a past harmonious working relationship with the land. 'The Greenlandman's Song' marks our desire to celebrate place with song and oral traditions and 'The Rite of Spring' is a communion with nature, a spiritual celebration of the passing of time and anticipation of renewal. The passing of geological time and our connection with it is the inspiration for 'This Ancient Land', the boat/soul passes across textured layers representing time and landscape."
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Sarah Lees' latest body of work focuses on the visual language of the land and how it has been shaped. Her landscapes are almost empty of human presence, showing only the raw design left behind: stripped back boundaries, thickets and thin stands, tracks and river bends. She is preoccupied with the edge of the land where cultivation and wildness coincide, and revisits favourite places repeatedly to try and capture what makes landscape so compelling:
"In the wintertime studio my mind wanders back to wild places and moments emerge, shaped in a way which is spontaneous but still fitting to tight parameters. This winter my palette has cooled, reflecting maturity and loss: repetitive themes, shot through with sparks of joy. The creative life, discipline and freedom, felt through a heartbeat."
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Stuart Anderson is well known for his bronze sculptures of animals. In recent years he has concentrated on the elegant and vital forms of greyhounds and horses. He works in clay or wax and casts his sculptures into bronze himself, using the lost wax process.
He has worked in Suffolk as a sculptor since obtaining a BA (Hons) Degree in Sculpture from the Winchester School of Art and a Post Graduate in Bronze Casting/Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
