GUEST ARTISTS
Darren Greenhow
“Creation and innovation have been my life long passions, both of which are expressed strongly in my metal sculptures. These are original, unique, intriguing and always immediately identifiable as my work. I enjoy the challenge of reinterpreting everyday objects and presenting them in unexpected, sometimes surprising, contexts. As a keen cyclist most of my works use steel cycle components as central to their theme. I use a mixture of used, unused and obsolete components in my work as appropriate to achieve the desired aesthetic effects. I strongly believe that much of the material we use in everyday life can be put to new uses and hope this ideal is reflected in my art. All the works you see were conceived and created by myself. I’m always happy to discuss sculpting unique works to meet your individual tastes and requirements.”
Darren Greenhow
Fish on a bike by Darren Greenhow
Andrew Reid MFA
Each of Reid’s paintings is collaged from source material gathered from derelict domestic dwellings, deceased estates and flea markets. He is fascinated with the notion of breathing new life and significance into the discarded and ephemeral. Inspired by the walls of derelict houses, with many peeling layers of paint and wall paper representing different time periods Reid uses a process of building and destroying layers of collage and paint in order to render a final image with several layers of depth. A central part of the process for many of Reid’s works involves the collaboration of his six year old son who he allows to draw on the work mid way through, this intervention of a second generation draws parallels with the nature of the entire process and was inspired by a children’s drawings found under wall paper in derelict domestic houses. These midway doodles directly affect his original composition and since the child is not art school educated it forces Reid to discard pre-conceived notions of artistic correctness and adjust his composition accordingly.
Clark in My Car, mixed media on board by Andrew Reid MFA
Trevor Price MA
Trevor Price was born in Redruth in 1966. He took the Foundation Diploma at Falmouth School of Art from 1984-85 and gained a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art and Printmaking at Winchester School of Art, leaving there in 1988. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter- Printmakers in 1995. From 1988-91 he was apprenticed to the Globe Studios, London as assistant etching editioner to artist Brenda Hartill and since then has worked as a full-time printmaker from studios in St Ives and London, supplying galleries throughout Europe. “Much of my abstract work takes as its influence water/the sea. Sometimes its very literal elements - the surface, waves, patterns, and colours and other times suggestions of what might be seen below, even on a microscopic level. My figurative works often source some of my abstract pieces, but the main elements come from relationships - sometimes narrative, sometimes humorous, often erotic and occasionally ridiculous - a spin on life.
A Rose for My Rose, etching By Trevor Price MA
Catherine Williams MA
Catherine Williams studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England, Graduating in 1997 when she also received the Rebecca Smith Award for Printmaking. She has just completed her Master’s Degree in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking studying at the UWE. The inspiration for Catherine’s work comes from the textural qualities of landscape, particularly the rugged Cornish coastline and the effect that the sea has on the landscape. Colour and light also play an important part in achieving a sense of place. The prints are usually made by using one of the two following processes - both of these processes lend themselves well to the subject matter. Etching, which involves deeply etching the plates to create very textural surfaces, combined with the subtle tones of aquatint. Carborundum, which is an intaglio process like etching, except instead of eating into the surface of the plate, the plate is built upon using a mixture of acrylic paste and Carborundum grit thus making a very hard surface, the print has a very strong embossed quality about it.