17/04/2022
We hope you are having a fantastic Easter Weekend so far!
It’s getting busy for us at the Lightroom, and we are excited to tell you more about the Connected exhibition, by &
The exhibition starts on Friday 22nd of April at 10am, and continues until 4pm on Sunday 24th of April.
We hope this extract from the Artist’s press release arouses your curiosity.
“Both Amanda and Maria use their life experiences with relationships, grief, adversity, and joy to inspire their work, which is made using unusual techniques.
Amanda's work features drawings made from her own photographs, taken during walks in the Hampshire countryside. Landscapes and nature have been her focus over the years, and for Connected her pieces depict trees. She seeks out subjects with visual drama, and those that echo traditional tales. Amanda uses a variation on traditional pen and ink and illustrators' scraper board. She uses light-fast pigment inks on a kaolin-coated board, which allows her to add and remove ink - effectively drawing in both positive and negative, black and white.
Maria’s current collections are created using scanography. She uses a flatbed scanner to scan real flowers, giving the finished images a very unique look. Many mistake them for oil paintings. Maria says it is like combining the Old Masters and modern technology. Her pieces for Connected, are mostly of flowers she has grown in her garden. Her florals are posed just like people, using years of experience as a portrait photographer. She uses nature to explore connections we have to each other, often broaching difficult subjects like loss, or conflict, but also joy, and love. The key is move something inside the viewer by connecting to an emotion”
There will be a Special Viewing on the Friday evening, more on this, and on the individual artists in the next posts.
