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Cotswold Resonance

1/22/2023

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Stonefield Slate on Portland Stone Base
Recently delivered to the Brian Sin
​field Gallery, Burford, Oxfordshire - my new Resonance style work uses the local stone.
This work is inspired by my love of the Drystone walls in this area and incorporating the pattern of the topping stone or coping stones.
Stonefield Slate is a local Oxfordshire stone and used to roof many beautiful Cotswold homes. Two hundred year old roof tiles have now become material of choice for making these sculptures.
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New Sculpture - recycled material

11/10/2022

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At  a party I met someone who had seen at my work online and said that they liked my tall Slate Cone - Tallis, but had I thought of making a similar piece in local stone that would possibly sit more sympathetically in the Cotswolds.

Inspired by working in material other than slate I thought about the Cotswolds  houses that are built with warm honey coloured stone and have beautiful  stone roof tiles made from Stonefield Slate. The Stonesfield quarry closed down at the start of last century and to obtain slate stone of this type requires reclaimed material.

By luck a friend was having her roof retiled and the builder had some damaged material that I could use.The stone roof had been on that house for over two hundred years and now I was going try and recycle it to create art.

I spent weeks with a hammer splitting  the old stone into suitable sized pieces and then slowly built them up on to an armature (a frame base)  to create a tall Stone Cone, topping it off with a Lead apex.

It was wonderful to work with a fresh material to me and it feels good to have recycled and repurposed this natural and beautiful slate into my Sculpture. The new work is yet to be named, maybe someone has a suggestion?






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Greys Court - National Trust

7/3/2022

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At the historic Greys Court  it is privilege to be part of the Oxford Sculpture group annual exhibition. The extensive grounds and property have sculpture exhibited until 17th July. This is the first time I have had work here but I certainly hope to return and enjoy having my work inside and in the grounds. 
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Blenheim Palace Autumn Fair

10/17/2021

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Moon & Furrow - Bronze Resin - Verdi  - Sue Jones 

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Intuition - Bronze Resin on Limestone 

As a member of the Oxford Sculptors Group I was delighted to be invited to exhibit at the Blenheim Palace Autumn Fair.
There were eleven sculptors involved with thirty sculptures displayed in the historic Walled Garden, the event was enhanced by late sunny days and was attended by thousands of visitors enjoying the Autumn Fair and the freedom of the new opening up from the restrictions of recent times. Traditional coconut shy's a massive straw castles entertained children and grownups along with a Chill-out Bar and Oxford independent vendors and street food outlets gave the whole event a Festival vibe that was a welcome event at the tail end of summer. 
I certainly hope that this is going to be an annual event and would love to take part again.

The event was organised by Charlotte Lloyd Webber of www.clweventdesign.com 
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Sculpture on Aldeburgh Beach

3/28/2021

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Thompsons Gallery, in Aldeburgh had invited me to partake in the annual exhibition that runs at their Suffolk gallery from June 12th - July 4th 2021. 

Like all exhibitions the art work have to be delivered ahead of the exhibition in order to photograph the work, produce the catalogue and publicity material.

 As I had a number of items that had been selected it made sense to deliver them all in good time in March. By coincidence I also required some more photography so it made sense to combine a photo session on the beach and the delivery of my new sculptures. 

After a long but pleasant drive from Oxfordshire I arrived at Aldeburgh and was  surprised to walk on the beach to find a number of people all gathering around what appeared to be a collection of iron objects, after closer examination the four objects had a small caption that stated the objects were Antony Gormley sculptures!

What I had stumbled upon what was apparently on the local news and there was a great deal of controversy about this ‘installation’ .

The objects were actually Gormley’s work and had been purchased by local Art Gallery owner Caroline Wiseman, the collection of four items were described as a Quartet (sleeping), but the Artist had named them differently and he had objected to them been displayed as they were just laid on the beach but they were created to be standing pieces. 

While I was there the story unfolded on local BBC news posting and that the Artwork required council permission to be displayed .

The permission was applied for retrospectively ,however the items had caused such a stir & many people became interested in the work. The result was that the work became available for sale and the sculptures were sold and the reclining objects were going to be removed so the issue of their display was resolved?

I was looking foward to see the work of Maggi Hambling’s ‘Scallop' a few hundred metres up the beach, shining in the broken Suffolk light this beautiful steel work glistens and sparkles with its myriad of textures and factions. It took many years for the locals to warm to this magnificent work, so it was not a surprise that the Gormley work had become an issue with locals, councils and the Artist. 

I did get a photograph a new work of mine, but that is still under embargo so here are the images of the one permanent and a few transient sculptures on Aldeburgh Beach.





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Hello - 2021 - New Work

1/1/2021

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 2021 promises to be a great improvement on 2020, we are all aware that the last year has been very challenging but a lot of my  time was spent working on new work & one of the new pieces I am very proud of is Cirque.
The new piece is a progression from the series of round slate work that I named Resonance, the prototype was completed in late 2020 and the first finished piece was delivered to Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley next the Sea, Norfolk in December 2020.
The sculpture was filmed by Lorentz Gullachsen and a short video released on instagram & Youtube.
This filming process was a new way of showing my Slate work and it allowed me to highlight the qualities of the materials,
the contrasting textures, the outer stainless steel band and the Portland stone base.
Getting involved with the filming process was exciting and creatively rewarding and I hope you shall enjoy this short video.

To see the work please click on this link below.

youtu.be/rgzLsw-Ewso


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Monochrome Exhibition 2020

5/16/2020

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In Autumn 2019 I was invited by Thompson's Gallery London to submit work for the Monochrome Exhibition in Spring 2020.I thought this was a wonderful idea to show a range of dramatic Black & White paintings, sculptures and charcoal drawings.
A celebration of tones rather than colour. My brand new creation Eclipse fits the brief perfectly, with a sleek stainless steel outer body containing hundreds of shards of grey slate. This elegant form stands on a large green oak block.
The online exhibition (due to Lock Down) runs from the 29th April to the 16th May 2020.
A personal favorite of mine in the exhibition is a stunning Charcoal on Paper- Summer Oak by Roy Wright.
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Horses to Hay

12/1/2019

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Lion Street Gallery - Hay on Wye
​My early teenage years were spent in Mid Wales enjoying the world of all things horsey, including Pony Club and riding out / exercising the David Davies Hunt Horses at Lord David Davies home in Llandinam. 
Riding my own horse across the stunning remote hills and mountains was an innocent and wonderful time of freedom. 
When I started to sculpt it wasn't long before the equine subject came to the fore.
All those years ago I would never have imagined that I would be creating and selling my equine sculptures back in Powys, Wales at the Lion Street Gallery, but that is exactly what has happened, strange how life runs in circles.
   

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Sue Jones (16)  & Rocket at Plas Dinam 
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August 15th, 2019

8/15/2019

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​The stunning area of the north Norfolk coastline was introduced to me over  twenty five years ago and I have returned to it regularly, if I leave it too long I get a calling and just have to go and see  the amazing big skies.
It’s such a special place and usually Thornham is the first stopping off point with a visit to the Lifeboat Inn for coffee or lunch after the three hour drive from Oxfordshire, then a wander down to the sea from there  past that stone barn, if you have been  you will know the one where the boats are anchored in the waterways that are usually resting in muddy banks until the tide comes in again.
Depending on where I am staying in the area I  often take the boat out from Blakney to visit the seals and love that they swim around the boat to check us  out too !
Burnham Market and Holt Town are both refreshing places for their individual stylish shops rather than the chain style high streets of most towns.


My  favourite place of all is Cley next the Sea a gorgeous village set back from the sea behind the  salt marshes , it has a beautiful 18th century  windmill that I stayed in years ago and woke to find  November snow on the beach the following morning. The villages has a pottery studio named  Made in Cley,  a  Smokehouse for delicious smoked fish etc, a superb delicatessen and most importantly the gorgeous Art Gallery called Pinkfoot. They specialise in British Modern Nature Art . So as you can imagine it means a lot emotionally for me to now have my work represented by this wonderful  Gallery and to be one of ‘ The  Pinkfoot  Artists’.


The Coast Road Exhibition runs until the 31st August.


















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Bath Summer Open 2019

5/19/2019

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​Thanks to the world of Instagram, I was informed by fellow artist Georgia Cox on her Instagram feed that there was call for submissions to the 114th Summer Open Exhibition by Bath Society of Artists. 
I submitted work and was happy to have my recent Resonance Slate work accepted. 
To be in such great company and appreciating the long  history of such an exhibition is a great honour, especially when such luminaries have previously have exhibited as such as Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent & Patrick Heron to name just a few.

The exhibition is on till the 29th June 2019 see details here
www.bsaorg.uk






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