Shirley Crowther Contemporary Art - Artist Showcase

Peter Archer				Peter makes fine wooden bowls and vessels. Using sycamore, the pieces are turned on a lathe, coloured and hand carved - a delicate and precise process. Rich, subtle staining, intricate carving and elegant lines make these original and beautiful pieces.

Louise Balaam				Atmospheric abstract landscapes, in oils on panel or canvas, inspired by sites of particular significance of sense of place.

Joanne Bowles				A recent graduate, Joanne's work in metal and ceramic reflects the constantly changing environment.

Day Bowman				Day Bowman creates paintings of great energy and commitment, being deeply immersed in the actual process of painting and absorbed by the subject matter, which becomes a metaphor for life itself.

Barbara Burns				Barbara's work evolves from her experience of landscape shapes and pattern, producing richly textural paintings in oil on canvas. These are created over many months allowing her to develop images whilst building glazes and depth of colour.

Ben Catt				Ben is deeply influenced by the landscape in Cornwall where he lives: the changing weather, the environment and atmosphere of the place.

Patricia Crowther				Inspired by sea and coastline, Patricia is concerned with the abstract elements of painting - shape, form and space, texture, surface and colour - which she develops using a subdued palette in oils, oil pastel and precious metals.

Carys Davies				Carys makes highly unusual ceramic pieces, thrown on the wheel in porcelain. They are smooth, with pearlescent glazes on the inside, but organic outside - rough with volcanic glazes, sometimes sitting on flotsam as though washed up on the tide.

Anne Davies				Although often alluding to harbour and landscape scenes, there is a strong abstract element to Anne's work, with fine layers of acrylic colour revealing an archaeology of images below the painted surface.

Carol Farrow				Carol's wallhanging 'paperworks' are created with hand made papers, painted and waxed. The medium creates an almost sculptural quality, tactile and textural, whilst her colour flows across the pieces, or series of pieces, sometimes intense, merging and diffusing into softer tones and hues.

Jo Ganter				Jo is fascinated by space, light and architectural form, reflected by abstract imagery in her etchings, many of which are printed on a very large scale.

Carolyn Genders				Inspired by the natural world, Carolyn seeks to create ceramic pieces that are an integration of form and surface, using texture or pattern to emphasise nuance of shape and create mood and atmosphere.

Helen Glassford				Helen Glassford’s paintings are in essence abstractions of the Scottish landscape in which she finds herself immersed. She reacts freely to the immensity of nature before her, attempting both to capture the spirit of place, and humanity’s transient experience of it.

Rebecca Gouldson				Rebecca creates one-off etched wall pieces from a variety of metals, including copper, gilding metal and silver, with a rich palette of textures decorating the surface.

Sam Hall				In Sam's ceramics the simplicity of form and minimal use of glaze/oxides used in conjunction with scored line, random marks and a sombre palette, create a tension where drawing and form cohabit together.

Philippa Karakashian				A printmaker, Philippa uses motifs reminiscent of the urban coastal environment and gathered objects to create her monochromatic, delicate and textural one-off pieces, which hint to the mapping of a particular kind of landscape.

Ursula Kellett				By juxtaposing natural elements (earth and sand from all over the world) with the synthetic (modern paints and varnishes) Ursula produces unpredictable interacting patterns and colour, works which represent both past and present.

Teresa Lawton				Teresa's work is inspired by her surrounding Purbeck Hills, which provides a ground from which to explore inner thoughts, her time and presence in places whe walks. This results in richly painted work, layered, scored and drawn into, subtly revealing hidden imagery.

Gilly McCadden				Fresh and minimal, Gilly's small watercolours have a harmonious and pure presence.

Julia McNeal				Julia works in paperclay seeing the objects she makes as finds, imperfect evidence of our times, in the way we might look at early writing, preserved because it is stamped in clay.

Frances Murray				Frances uses low technology itaglio printmaking, creating both single works and grid combinations, suggesting metaphorical landscapes and giving rise to meditations in line, texture and colour.

Meridith Namsoo				Meridith is fascinated by watercolour because of its enormous graphic potential. Working on both paper and canvas, her paintings incorporate different surfaces - paper, gesso, print - to take this medium of intimate scale into a looser format.

Gill Parry				Gill is inspired by natural organic shapes with their symmetry and imperfections. She uses a heavily grogged stoneware clay to produce a textured surface exploiting the often unexpected interactions between clay, fire and glazes.

Giles Penny				An accomplished sculptor whose distinctive ideas and style are recognisable in works of all scale whether large public pieces cast in bronze or his small and original cut-outs.

Jennie Slater				Jennie's sea and coastal paintings are full of movement, light and atmosphere.

Jasia Szerszynska				Jasia's work concentrates on experimental printmaking and drawing, using a variety of techniques including collagraphy, intaglio, carborundum, lithography, monoprints, screen print and drypoint.

Molly Verity				Vibrant colour and a freedom of expression typify Molly's paintings in oil on canvas, using layers of translucent colour and descriptive mark making.

Amanda Wallwork				Amanda's work is concerned with place, its history, its location. Painting onto gesso on board, her pieces have a three dimensional quality, a patina of age and time, and graphic storyline.

Robin Welch				Welch has developed a considerable reputation for his freely constructed individual pots over many decades. He has a broad approach fusing art and form, the full range of his work including large vessels with related paintings, fine drawings, and distinctive ceramic pieces which explore colour, surface texture, form, detail of edge, and line.

Sandra Whitmore				The Sussex countryside and coast are the main inspiration for Sandra's abstracted landscapes paintings, using a variety of media,gentle colour, descriptive line and texture to create energy and atmosphere.

Kate Wickham				Kate makes hand built painterly ceramic vessel forms exploring a number of ideas and themes – landscapes, domestic interiors, seascapes etc. – through abstraction and symbolism, and through the use of colour, texture and mark making.

Rosalind Wyatt				Words are Rosalind's passion and her technique of using collage with its countless possibilities for writing and sewing line, mark, symbol and letter, creates a multi-layered and atmospheric portrayal of her chosen text.

Yuk Kan Yeung				Many differing cultural influences go into Yuk Kan's delicate and fascinating porcelain pieces, combined with her love of drawing and use of the medium and its decoration to reflect both emotions and a sense of place.