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Crick Open Studios. For this special event we have extended our opening times, see below:
Our curent exhibition wall features the work of Nina Mc Garva, glass and Helen Arthur originals and etchings. On until 14 July.
Nina Mc Garva
Artist statement
The starting point for my work is nature. I take a detail of an observation I find in nature and use it as an inspirational base to create my own abstraction, that then builds into a complex sculpture. My inspiration comes from cycles of nature that I associate with the glass making process because, to me, the material goes through a cycle and is most lively when it’s hot and being transformed. In the making process I shape kiln cast glass by hand with big gloves in a hot open kiln until the glass stops moving.
Born in Gloucester in England, Nina Casson McGarva grew up in rural central France in the middle of the Burgundy countryside. She comes from a makers family, Growing up in an environment of nature and craft has definitely influenced her life and art work so far. Nina started learning the basic technical skills of glass blowing, In the National French Glass school in Yzeure,then at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts on Bornholm where she started to use other glass techniques such as casting ,fusing and started experimenting with several techniques. After residencies in the USA and Japan, she has settled in the English countryside in her studio in the south of Herefordshire. UK Nina has shown her work in exhibitions in Europe, in the USA and Japan.
Artist statement
The starting point for my work is nature. I take a detail of an observation I find in nature and use it as an inspirational base to create my own abstraction, that then builds into a complex sculpture. My inspiration comes from cycles of nature that I associate with the glass making process because, to me, the material goes through a cycle and is most lively when it’s hot and being transformed. In the making process I shape kiln cast glass by hand with big gloves in a hot open kiln until the glass stops moving.
Born in Gloucester in England, Nina Casson McGarva grew up in rural central France in the middle of the Burgundy countryside. She comes from a makers family, Growing up in an environment of nature and craft has definitely influenced her life and art work so far. Nina started learning the basic technical skills of glass blowing, In the National French Glass school in Yzeure,then at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts on Bornholm where she started to use other glass techniques such as casting ,fusing and started experimenting with several techniques. After residencies in the USA and Japan, she has settled in the English countryside in her studio in the south of Herefordshire. UK Nina has shown her work in exhibitions in Europe, in the USA and Japan.
Helen Arthur
"When a landscape becomes meaningful to you, it gets under your skin to create vivid memories. My paintings and prints capture that…
There’s a kind of wild light where my studio is based in Longtown on the edge of the Brecon Beacons – you see *all* the weather and the seasons here feel extreme. This works on my creativity in an inescapable way. On the one hand, I'm drawn to paint the big vistas and imposing mountain views in mixed media: on the other, I photograph, draw and etch the intimacy of enclosed woodlands and hedgerow spaces. In my dual practice, I search out both the wide space beyond as well as the narrow spaces between.
As a working artist I exhibit and teach printmaking: you may have seen my work at Bluestone Gallery, Hay on Wye, Oriel Cric, Crickhowell, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, and Ironbridge Fine Arts, Coalbrookdale. Having won Arts Council funding, I am co-curating the Mappa Marches touring exhibition throughout 2022 supporting a group of 9 artists."
https://helenarthur.art
@helenarthurart - instagram and facebook
www.mappamarches.com
07702090559
"When a landscape becomes meaningful to you, it gets under your skin to create vivid memories. My paintings and prints capture that…
There’s a kind of wild light where my studio is based in Longtown on the edge of the Brecon Beacons – you see *all* the weather and the seasons here feel extreme. This works on my creativity in an inescapable way. On the one hand, I'm drawn to paint the big vistas and imposing mountain views in mixed media: on the other, I photograph, draw and etch the intimacy of enclosed woodlands and hedgerow spaces. In my dual practice, I search out both the wide space beyond as well as the narrow spaces between.
As a working artist I exhibit and teach printmaking: you may have seen my work at Bluestone Gallery, Hay on Wye, Oriel Cric, Crickhowell, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, and Ironbridge Fine Arts, Coalbrookdale. Having won Arts Council funding, I am co-curating the Mappa Marches touring exhibition throughout 2022 supporting a group of 9 artists."
https://helenarthur.art
@helenarthurart - instagram and facebook
www.mappamarches.com
07702090559
