To a green thought in a green shade
Six artists; Katy Bentall, Simon Carter, Max Clements, Paul Fenner, Jenn Pitchers, Jevan Watkins Jones, take on green and greeness - its colour, our thoughts surrounding it and our interactions with it, from the streets to the forest, from memories and in our dreams.
To a green thought in a green shade takes the form of drawings, paintings and artists books.
Exhibition Opening 6-8pm, Friday 11
Opening times 10am - 4pm, Thursday 10 - Wednesday 16
Other open evening events to be announced @jevanwatkinsjones on Instagram
Katy Bentall
scorched pencil and gouache
I am a British artist and poet and currently divide my time between Dobre, a small village in Eastern Poland, and the hamlet of Felixstowe Ferry in Suffolk, U.K.
My work captures fleeting, often observational moments - and appears either in the form of words strung together as a poem, or as an image - spaces on the edge of our consciousness. The four gouache drawings here were made in situ in Dobre during the heatwave of summer 2022 and reflect my long held passion for wild flowers and meadows.
@katybentall
@punnet_press
Simon Carter
house by the saltings acrylic on canvas
I live on the Essex coast, the unravelling edge of a landscape. I like things that tend towards the wild and unkempt, the overlooked margins inhabited by birds and insects. Drawing, gardening and painting are all done in quite a ragged, freehand way, a balance of control and chance.
@simoncarter11
Max Clements
Ripe i oil on panel
My paintings are an abstract response to my experience of landscape, motherhood, family secrets and illness. Using the landscape around me for structure, I paint rhythmic landscape interpretations.
Most recently my work draws on illness, specifically breast cancer, treatment and aftermath. Exploring the emotions and visions I had when I was repeatedly drawn away from reality into a strange chemo cocktail fuelled world. Sometimes in the days after chemo I thought I had escaped the ‘chemo tunnel’ only to find myself submerged in the heart of it. Drawings I made during the months of my treatment inform many of my paintings, it is an inescapable realm that I repeatedly explore.
Ripe and Relish show budding fertile landscapes in warm pink and green. The undulating shapes joining and rising together alluding to fertility and recovered libido.
@barerootrose
Paul Fenner
the pear tree oil on canvas
My figurative images result from the always messy and complex interaction of memory, my immediate surroundings, ideas about human beings, other images, and the thickness of the painting process.
I currently live and work in Norwich. I studied at Newcastle University and the Royal Drawing School, where I received the Richard Ford Award. In 2013 I undertook a three month teaching residency in India. I exhibit regularly and teach at the Royal Drawing School and I’m an Associate Artist at SCVA.
@paul-patrick-fenner
Jenn Pitchers
if i cant have you i dont want you monotype oil on paper
I am an artist and illustrator living in Suffolk. Born of British and Filipino heritage, I explore themes of belonging, purpose, identity and desire. I use drawing, painting and printmaking, frequently working with figurative compositions, endeavouring to make external my persistent internal scrimmages. In this way the work becomes impulsive, deliberate and emotionally imperative. In creating a visual narrative to make sense of myself, the hope is that it takes me closer to fuller living.
@guthouses
Jevan Watkins Jones
april fading daffodils oil on paper
I work from my studio at Hill House above the River Lark, Suffolk, in a garden I have tended for 16 years. I make drawings, paintings and sculptural work from this ensemble of plants and about my close relationship to them. My routines as a gardener are bound up in the material of my images.
@jevanwatkinsjones
@chatto_art_group