Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk www.jasonsumray.com
Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk www.jasonsumray.com
Image: detail from ‘Spoons Looking Right’ © Jason Sumray, oil on canvas. All rights reserved
What’s in a Jug? Paintings and etchings by Jason Sumray 11-24 September 2020
For his Highgate Gallery show ‘What’s in a Jug?’ Jason Sumray brings together a series of oil paintings and etchings that are invented Still Lifes. He takes ordinary objects and gives them new meanings; grouping and juxtaposing them as if they are protagonists in table-top dramas.
The series began with an interest in images where the human presence was still strongly felt but figures were absent. Drawers are half open, stools and chairs empty, plates, cutlery, jugs and serviettes left on the dinner table. Jason’s purpose was not to create a direct or distinguishable narrative, but rather to offer triggers that evoke potential meaning. In time, he has become more concerned with a different kind of ‘narrative’ played out in his imaginary theatre world of objects; where, in the tradition of Still Life, the things seem to exist autonomously regardless of human involvement, and what is important is their relationship to one another and to the empty space.
Several paintings in the exhibition deal with a preoccupation with the theme of ‘Spilt Strawberries and Cream’; images that were begun as a response to Chardin’s quietly evocative ‘Basket of Wild Strawberries’ (1761). Jason felt he wanted to upset Chardin’s delicate and finely balanced conical construction.
Jason’s interest in the language of light and dark has been extended into the discipline of etching using solely black ink. He loves the blackness of the medium and how it’s possible to play with the way the forms emerge or disappear into the darkness, where edges are lost and then re-emerge. He etches from his paintings; they inform each other.
Jason Sumray lives and paints in North London. He has exhibited in various galleries in London and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for a number of Open Competitions. He won the Discerning Drawing Bursary in 2011 and was joint winner of the Marshwood Arts Award in 2017. His series of paintings based on Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ were exhibited as part of the inaugural International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, NI, in 2012. In 2016 his Fisherman paintings were shown in the Fishing Museum in Cromer. Jason gained his Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art and was awarded Distinction for his research on the nature of symbolism and metaphor in paintings. In 2016 he was proud to curate the exhibition of paintings of his friend and mentor Ron Delavigne at the Highgate Gallery.
For further information please contact Jasonsumray@yahoo.co.uk www.jasonsumray.com
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. textile collage. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Two evenings of interaction and reflection with talks, poetry and more, on themes from the show, Jonathan & Ariella Green, ‘A Shared Landscape’:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. textile collage. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Two evenings of interaction and reflection with talks, poetry and more, on themes from the show, Jonathan & Ariella Green, ‘A Shared Landscape’:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
Image: Thirst. Ariella Green. All rights reserved
Jonathan and Ariella Green: A Shared Landscape. 2-15 October 2020
In this joint show, their first in Highgate, Ariella and Jonathan Green are showing recent work expressing the idea of a shared landscape. They both make images including landscape in their work, but the theme of the show also applies to the shared landscape of their life together, their experience of living and travelling, creating a home and family; aesthetic correspondences that come from making art, looking and working together, and sharing ideas and materials.
There are definite contrasts as well as connections. Ariella creates textile collages filled with layers of memory from childhood history, family and mythic narrative, peopled with figures and animals. Landscape and other elements from her origin in Israel are combined with those from life in England. Recently she includes an increasing response to the international situation; issues around reaching out to each other across cultures and experience, the possibilities in diversity and need for contact as well as dangers in misunderstanding.
Jonathan’s oil paintings commonly begin with the experience of a state of being in landscape – felt moments and a sense of self. During work on the painting these moments link in reverie to other aspects of emotion, relationships and memory. The language of the paintings is particularly the use of colour and form linked to emotion and thought. Some of these landscapes come from a time following the loss of his parents in 2014 and 2016, marking their passing with memory.
Ariella Green is a textile artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. She trained at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Manchester University and has exhibited with the Crafts Council, “62” textile and “New Fibre Art” groups. She is a member of the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) Gallery in London ‘representing some of the most talented and skilled applied artists working in Britain today.’ (www.caa.org.uk/). www.ariellagreen.com.
Jonathan Green took Art at A level and a History of Art Tripos at Cambridge University before attending Art school in Paris and Winchester as time out from medical studies. He is now a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Manchester and has continued painting throughout his medical career, recently exhibiting more regularly. He has also combined experience in child development, psychology and art into writing and lecturing on an ‘interpersonal approach to painting’ (for instance – DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005751).
Events – ‘A Shared Landscape Shared’ Sundays 4th and 11th October, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Two evenings of interaction and reflection on themes from the show, with talks, poetry, and more:
‘Beauty Gives Me Courage’ – art and resilience in difficult times.
‘The Symbolization of Love’ – art and empathy, loss and renewal.
Details and tickets: hlsi.net/highgate-gallery £10 each (£7 for HLSI members).
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.