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To coincide with our current solo exhibtion Ambrosine Allen: In The Course of Ages, a rotating exhibition of works on paper is on show in our Gallery Viewing Room and online.From print to collage, works on paper have historically acted as studies towards larger works and can offer a glimpse into the artist's ideas and processes. This curated selection of works includes drawings, prints, collage and paintings by gallery artists Lindsey Bull, Laura Ford, Kathryn Maple and Jonathan Michael Ray, alongside works by exhibited artists, Rachel Howard, Bridget Riley, Rose Wylie and Clare Woods.
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Kathryn Maple
Kathryn Maple trained at the Royal Drawing School, and her love of drawing is forever present and often acts as a starting point for her larger scale works. Taking direct reference from the landscapes and interactions between passers by, Maple beautifully captures these fleeting moments in time while walking in local London parks. Her initial sketches and loose watercolour studies are scaled up to create works on canvas that are densely packed with layers of texture, repetitive mark-making and layer upon layer of shapes and bursts of colour.
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Clare Woods
ScreenprintsClare Woods was born in Southampton, England, in 1972. She studied for her BA Fine Art at Bath College of Art 1991-94 and for her MA Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, London 1997-99. Having initially trained as a sculptor, Woods’ understanding of sculptural forms underpin her paintings, collages and prints, which depict still lifes, interiors and portraits.
She reinterprets found imagery, cropping or repositioning the subjects so that they hover on the edge of legibility and figuration and present the viewer with both the familiar and the uncanny, the gentle and the sinister. Woods explores the ambiguous threat of every-day life, mediating between moments of beauty and mortality.
The artist has a dedicated print room in her studio complete with a printing press. Since making her first graphic works almost ten years ago, printmaking and the development of her collages have become central to Woods’ practice.
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Jonathan Michael Ray
Earth Pigment DrawingsThe pen and ink “Elevation” series are drawn arrangements of neolithic (4000-2500bc) inscriptions discovered at various sites across the islands of Orkney. These inks are handmade from Orkney earth pigment (collected on Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust funded residency) and oak galls from Cornwall.
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