Author: yaxu

I was pleased to have have my painting Women waiting 2 selected to hang in the  Royal West of England  Open exhibition in Bristol 2019

 

I was particularly pleased with this small painting Two women waiting with dog  which was sold to a friend here in Ledbury, during our successful WORDCLAYCLOTHPAINT exhibition by LedburyBookArts group.

 

It has been a busy week at Blue Ginger Gallery where I have my recent paintings in the exhibition for h’Art 19. I shall be at the gallery during this final weekend and hope to see more visitors at this special gallery just a few miles from Ledbury. Lots of home made cake too !

The BookArts19 exhibtion for the Ledbury Poetry Festival is at Weavers Gallery  but finishes on Sunday 14th July! My contribution is an Altered Book called The Philosophy of Walking. Below are sample pages

                   

Wild Daffodils grow in the woods and fields at Newent and Dymock and after many local country walks over the past few weeks, I find that yellow features strongly in my paintings.

 

These ladies turned up on a small square canvas I was working on last week ! They appear to be waiting for something or somebody. It occurred to me that we all spend a great deal of our time waiting, even if we are doing something while we wait, so I feel that this could be a new theme to my work.

Those of us who live and work in Ledbury are fortunate to be able to walk into remarkably varied countryside to feed our creativity and raise our spirit. We can climb onto Dog Hill and then up onto Bradwell Knoll where John Masefield walked as a boy. We can walk along Marcle Ridge to the East, glimpsing a patchwork of fields or explore the paths to the South where the group known as the Dymock Poets, including Robert Frost and Edward Thomas walked and talked. The magnificent Malvern Hills are an ever present backdrop to our lives.

My concertina book and painted canvases are from a series of work about my walks. These paintings and book was my work submitted for the Bookarts exhibition for the Ledbury Poetry Festival 2018, at Weavers Gallery.

      

    

             

I was pleased to have a small canvas in an exhibition celebrating Alice in Wonderland at Blue Ginger Gallery, Cradley. My painting has been sold and taken by the customer, but the exhibition is still in place and continues until 3rd December.

 

 

I was pleased to hear that one of my small paintings from the series about Memory and Meetings has been hung in the Royal West of England Open Exhibition at Bristol. I look forward to the Varnishing Lunch on the 30th September. The exhibition open on the !st October.