TAKING SPACE
June 22nd to july 20 th
All media
www.artspace-cornwall.co.ukTAKING SPACE is an art collective formed by women in the St Ives area in 1993 by Mary Fletcher, Joy Elliot and Ursula Gleeson.
TAKING SPACE is a democratic group formed to give women artists, living and working in Cornwall, an organization for exhibiting their work and pursuing other artistic activities.
It encourages diversity by allowing members to select their own work for exhibition free from external pressures.
“As a founder member, I regard ‘Taking Space’ as a quietly subversive group, because it encourages members to exhibit a widely diverse range of art, all self-selected.” - Mary Fletcher
Over the years the group has attracted new members from further afield, and has evolved with its changing membership. Nearly seventy artists have been part of the group over the years, and it is this continual change that gives Taking Space its incredible vibrancy and interest
They exhibit in galleries, restaurants and pubs throughout the region.
Artist’s Statements 2007
Helen Atkins
I continually strive to capture and harness the energy and power of the sea, using a strong interpretation of motion and colour.
Contact
01736-799004
h.atkins@btinternet.com
Kate Cameron
I am self-taught and have lived in Cornwall since childhood. I work mainly in pastels and acrylics. I am inspired by colour, light and the natural world, particularly the incredible plants and flowers that grow so profusely here.
Contact:
01736-756882
Mary Fletcher
As a founder member, I regard TAKING SPACE as a quietly subversive group, because it encourages members to exhibit a wildly diverse range of art, all self-selected.
I use a wide range of media to express my ideas on contemporary life. This year I have completed an MA course in Contemporary Visual Arts at Falmouth. So with this new stimulation you can expect the unexpected - in due course!
Contact:
01736-795544
Karen Foss
Since coming to Cornwall colour has played an increasingly important part in my work. From the initial introduction of sea and sky colours into what was often a fairly monochrome palette of black, white and grey, I now use colour across the whole spectrum. This “discovery“ of colour has opened up a new aspect of my work to create depth, movement and sometimes, illusion. What I see and experience around me, from the noise and brightness of city life to the beauty and rhythm of Cornwall’s landscape and sea, feeds into my paintings and constructions which use line, grids, repetition and pattern. Sometimes the work is deliberately scaled up from small, working gouaches but often a painting will evolve in the studio sparking off a subsequent series of works.
Contact:
01736 791924
karenfoss@hotmail.com
Elizabeth Lees
My paintings are intensely colourful with obvious influences in the French Post Impressionists. I use watercolours and drawings as studies to inform later oil paintings. Line, colour, space, form can express emotion in subtle ways impossible in speech. I strive to express emotions that have no words.
Contact:
01872-552453
lizzieb@uk2.net
Celia McIintosh
I studied fine art at Penzance Art School, Cornwall College and Falmouth College of Art. I am primarily a printmaker and often use life drawings to develop into collagraphs and etchings.
Contact:
01736-753653
celiamcintosh@tiscali.co.uk
Sara Pound
I use anything I can draw with - painting with watercolour & acrylics, pen & inks, oil & chalk, pastels… figurative or in abstract form; the subject will dictate the choice. I am rarely without a camera..the process of creating is unpredictable & scary, often elusive..but always evolving!
Cornwall is my inspiration & gives me my ‘sense of place’
Contact:
01872-240474 /07837-826426
s_pound@hotmail.com
Helen Savage
A life-long love of the 3 dimensional of whatever expression, has led to a late output in stone and ceramic pieces. - Unqualified and self taught, I continue to have moderate success with commissions especially.
Contact:
01326-311864
Karen Smith.
As a child I was only happy when I had a crayon in my hand - nothing changes - although I am equally happy working in oils, acrylics, acrylic inks, watercolour, textiles and mixed media. I studied textiles and graphics at college and am inspired by the beautiful county that we live in.
Contact:
01872 275838
Diana Verboom
I use photography to capture patterns and shapes.
My original work was all with plants, especially exotics, which create wonderful patterns, but I have recently been enjoying wandering around boatyards and marinas!
I liked the atmospheres which emerged when I finished these images.
Contact:
01736-364674
diana@verboom.co.uk
Diana Wayne
Most of my work concerns issues of Affection.
Caring for another human being is the greatest positive emotion that we have, yet few artists concern themselves with this issue, perhaps because the results are seen as either erotic or schmaltzy
It was while I was studying the work of Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt in 2002 that this idea became relevant to my own work. I have worked on a number of series, since then, and am continuing with this theme while I study for my MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice at the University of Falmouth.
I paint on natural primed and stained canvas; I am also a printmaker, specializing in etching. I am interested in producing Artist’s Books.
Contact:
01209-211527
dianawayne380@hotmail.com
www.silverwellfineart.com and www.dianawayne.co.uk
Ges Wilson
I am a painter working in Arts and Community Education for over 20 years. My paintings develop from drawings - of life models, of the Cornish landscape and ocean, and of experiences of activities like surfing and sailing. Ways of seeing events in life, isolated and represented…
Contact:
01736-350046/07773-608062
chyandour@onetel.com
