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Court Cupboard Craft Gallery is open every day 10.30 - 4.00 pm.
Treat yourself to tea or coffee and cake and chase away the winter blues in front of our log fire, while enjoying the varied art works on display. |
Calling all wood carvers, the gallery would dearly like to show the work of anyone who carves love Spoons!! Please contact Sandrina; sandrinagay@aol.com
Our new exhibition starts on 4th January and runs until 14th March. Featuring Jane Bevan sculpture from wild wood and Sally Greiner Bell's constructions from industrial objects. Two very talented and fascinating artists.
Jane Bevan
My work and inspiration - artist statement
Using natural materials gathered from English woodlands I make small assembled sculptures in which fragments and details of nature are held up to be admired and reflected upon.
These materials - bark, thorns, leaves and twigs are often overlooked, trodden on and discarded despite the wealth of colour, pattern and texture they offer. The irregularities, tiny imperfections and random twists and turns make each item unique.
My search for materials is an endless and satisfying process as each day I return with some new find to incorporate into the work through assembly, twining, coiling and weaving.
Following a 25 year career as a curator in public galleries I am now enjoying using art collections, both historical and contemporary, as a rich and varied resource for my own work and ideas.
I am a passionate advocate of museums and galleries and a regular visitor to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; Compton Verney, Warwickshire and the British Museum, London.
My work and inspiration - artist statement
Using natural materials gathered from English woodlands I make small assembled sculptures in which fragments and details of nature are held up to be admired and reflected upon.
These materials - bark, thorns, leaves and twigs are often overlooked, trodden on and discarded despite the wealth of colour, pattern and texture they offer. The irregularities, tiny imperfections and random twists and turns make each item unique.
My search for materials is an endless and satisfying process as each day I return with some new find to incorporate into the work through assembly, twining, coiling and weaving.
Following a 25 year career as a curator in public galleries I am now enjoying using art collections, both historical and contemporary, as a rich and varied resource for my own work and ideas.
I am a passionate advocate of museums and galleries and a regular visitor to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; Compton Verney, Warwickshire and the British Museum, London.
Sally Greiner Bell
Artist’s Statement
I am a sculptor who has mainly worked as an installation artist. My practice is very much materials led, and I am I drawn to industrial materials and objects which underpin our modern lives, yet are seldom noticed. There is great beauty in industrial “stuff”, which I believe reflects the beauty of our bodies and the natural world around us. As a species that makes things, it seems to me we humans create beauty almost in spite of ourselves, in the most mundane things.
My work usually reflects issues I feel deeply about. My pieces for the Court Cupboard came from a realisation that, as so many once common species become scarce and disappear, we will have to rely on our imperfect and unreliable memories to keep them alive in our hearts. Nothing is safe from Climate Catastrophe.
Artist’s Statement
I am a sculptor who has mainly worked as an installation artist. My practice is very much materials led, and I am I drawn to industrial materials and objects which underpin our modern lives, yet are seldom noticed. There is great beauty in industrial “stuff”, which I believe reflects the beauty of our bodies and the natural world around us. As a species that makes things, it seems to me we humans create beauty almost in spite of ourselves, in the most mundane things.
My work usually reflects issues I feel deeply about. My pieces for the Court Cupboard came from a realisation that, as so many once common species become scarce and disappear, we will have to rely on our imperfect and unreliable memories to keep them alive in our hearts. Nothing is safe from Climate Catastrophe.
