From Coast to Countryside – Exhibition September 12th – October 5th 2024

From Coast to Countryside

Meet the Artists at the Public view evening – 6-9pm,  Wed 11th Sept – FREE ENTRY

Exhibition is open September 12th – October 5th 2024  Wed – Sat 10-4pm (Except Friday after 1pm )

Introduction

West Somerset boasts some of the most beautiful landscape in the West of England. From its wide beaches and coastal fossilised forests to the steep ridges and deep wooded valleys of the Quantocks and Blackdown Hills, it is a rich home to a huge range of trees, wildflowers, invertebrates, birds and mammals. It’s magical.

Over the last year, three local artists have been documenting this very special natural environment to produce the body of work on show in this exhibition. Through photography, drawing, painting and printmaking, they capture the essence and beauty of these wild places and the fragility of the landscape and its wildlife. The images seek to communicate and share this fragile beauty with you as a tribute to the countryside that we have on our doorstep.

Veronica Marshall

I live in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This stunning landscape provides the inspiration for my work. Working on canvas and paper and using a variety of media and techniques, I create paintings and drawings that capture the shapes, colours and forms of the world around me. Views, found objects and tiny organisms that make up the ecosystem around my home are photographed to provide the basis for my work. Back in the studio, cropping the photos, playing with scale and colour helps me to reinterpret how I see what’s around me to create the work on show in this exhibition.

Sarah Thompson-Engels

I live in the village of Trull and walk my dog every day through fields and past hedgerows abundant with seedheads and thickets of colourful, wild plants. Intertwining roots, leaves and tendrils create juicy, green layers of vegetation. From these amazing organic forms I am inspired to create large scale landscapes and still life paintings and monoprints.

Sara Moss

My work reflects my love of drawing, focusing on outline, pattern and shape and takes direct inspiration from high-tide gleanings from the beach between Dunster and Blue Anchor following wild storms and spring tides.

The seaweed, shells, broken branches and path side foliage, all churned up during the storms, have a beauty and permanence which outlive the havoc wrought on the landscape by the tide.

Exhibition opening times are : Wed – Sat 10-4pm except Friday after 1pm.

If travelling a long way to visit the Gallery/Cafe it is advisable to check beforehand as sometimes there are workshops and performances during the day –  email info@ciccic.co.uk