teresa clark

I wasn't going to do another post today
(we are so so so busy and time is running out)
but then I discovered the blog and website and
stunning work of Teresa Clark
and just had to show you.



Teresa collects "ephemera, moments, images, objet trouvé,
lost, discarded and misplaced trinkets"
and assembles them together to create beautiful
"objet trouvé assemblages".

{isn't it simply beautiful}

to see more of Teresa's stunning work
visit her website here
and to visit her blog click here

I hope you will enjoy looking at her work
and reading about it as much as we have.

come darkness

we were sitting here, on this cold & windy autumn sunday,
thinking about winter and the icy cold to come,
and then read this lovely post from Loraine {grijs}
about Come Darkness:

an homage to winter light
and changing seasons,
Come Darkness is a small collection of art
curated & installed by
Maria Alexandra Vettese

a beautiful concept

more info here


hope you enjoy looking through the collection
and thanks Loraine for showing us this


{image 2: ceramic mountain by karin eriksson}
{image 4: ray scarf by loraine bergevoet}
{image 6: trail two (squares) by caitlin mociun}
{other images: come darkness}

anu tuominen

www.anutuominen.fi



{found via the lovely deborah at her blog kickcan & conkers}

deborah finds some beautiful stuff to post about so please
check out her blog and she did a lovely feature on our work too

featured artists: rick hall

we thought we'd show you some of our friend Rick's work
as he has recently finished his new website.
Rick also lives in Welcombe - for those of you who came
to the Welcombe Open Studios in the summer,
you may have visited his studio and know his work.

Rick's art involves screen-print, lithography, etching,
paint and pen & ink, and harmonography.
no computers.


His beautiful work is available to buy through his website.

www.rickhall.co.uk

claire loder

Claire's new website is online and we think it's very cool.
click here to visit it


and we can't wait to get a copy of her new book - available soon



Claire will be exhibiting at Origin:
stand M6, week 2 - 13th to 18th october



www.claireloder.co.uk
www.claireloder.blogspot.com

yew tree gallery

sea pool and rose headland by michael sheppard

on our sort of day off, on thursday, we also popped into one
of our favourite galleries in Cornwall, the Yew Tree Gallery.

the road out of St.Ives toward St.Just is beautiful and the gallery
is just past Morvah, with sea views on one side and
the stunning Penwith Moors on the other side.

the gallery is a lovely space and the exhibitions are always good.

we totally fell in love with Michael Sheppard's beautiful paintings which
had been framed perfectly in slightly worn looking gold frames.
(I wish I could have bought one).

His next exhibition is at the Open Space Galleries in Penryn
which opens on the 9th october to 3rd november.

porthmeor artists studios

whenever we go to St.Ives, we always walk along Porthmeor beach
and look at this amazing building and dream about what it's like inside.
it houses Porthmeor artists studios, the St.Ives School of painting and
the local fishermens cellars, but we had never been inside .....
until thursday.

we had just missed all the other open studios but one was still open,
so we had a really nice chat with artist Iain Robertson who
shares one of the studios with his wife Clare Wardman.

image by Paul Massey

lust for life oil by Iain Robertson

the studios are beautiful but decaying and desperately need to be saved
from falling into the sea, basically. 3.7 million pounds is needed and
the artists, fishermen and the architect are interested in
restoring the buildings rather than altering them.

Clare Wardman's studio

we didn't get to take any photo's of inside so I have included a couple
by photographer Paul Massey and check out the video link below too

image by Paul Massey

there was an exhibition in one of the other studios that we visited too
in which all the resident artists had given a piece of work to raise
money for the restoration.
the buildings have been here for over 150 years, used by both
fishermen and artists such as Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon
and it would be such a shame if they weren't saved.

for more info about the restoration, please visit: www.bsjwtrust.co.uk
there is also an article by Emma Thomas you should read - click here
and some great little videos about the studios - click here

william peers - 100 days: sketches in marble

the other exhibition that we went to see at the weekend was
the preview of William Peer's first 30 sculptures from his
new work 100 days: sketches in marble

we have known Wim & Sophie for a while now and have made a
couple of pieces of furniture for them in the past.
they live not far from us in a beautiful old house and the sculptures
looked perfect exhibited there.
it was a lovely informal preview, with tea & cakes & autumn sunshine.

Wim's idea for the series is to make a sculpture every day for 100 days.
read more about it and see more of his work here.
The final collection can be seen at Art London 8th - 12th October 09.

Wim's website: www.williampeers.com
Art London: www.artlondon.net

Zoe Hyde & Dawn Dupree at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery

Zoe and Dawn are exhibiting together for the first time
at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton.
Zoe produces beautiful contemporary paintings and
Dawn is a textile artist producing canvases as well as a
domestic range including beautiful cushions.

We managed to see the exhibition just before the gallery closed
for the day on Saturday - well, actually, it had just gone 4pm when we
arrived but they so kindly opened up again for us so we
could have a quick look.


Zoe is based in Cornwall and Dawn is in London so both are influenced
by very different surroundings, yet their work has similarities in
terms of their subject matter, the way they work and their use of colour.

The exhibition runs until 24th October 09.

Thelma Hulbert Gallery: www.thelmahulbert.com
Zoe Hyde: www.zoehyde.co.uk
Dawn Dupree: www.dawndupree.com

j.morgan puett - part one: mildred's lane

J.Morgan Puett and her artists colony
Mildred's Lane in Pennsylvania

(sometimes we come across something/someone
that is so inspiring - something that makes us think -
this is exactly what it's about)

set in 96 acres, the house and outbuildings have been
transformed beautifully - a living working environment
for artists to collaborate and learn

surroundings becoming art
art becoming surroundings
constantly evolving

read more here
images by Simon Upton

part two ... soon

Gabrielle Goodchild

thankyou to everyone that came to see us at the
Welcombe Open Studios '09 and for visiting all the other artists too.
We really enjoyed this years event
and it was great to have new studios open this year too.

There is still a wonderful exhibition on in Welcombe at the village hall
until the 6th September of Gabrielle Goodchilds new work, with some
guest artists too. Gabrielle produces beautiful etchings but this year
is exhibiting some stunning new paintings, full of deep colours, darkness and stories.


falling


in the woods enclosed


her guardians


within this border


for more details about Gabrielle's work and latest exhibition
click here

jerome abel seguin

we have admired the work of Jerome Abel Seguin for a long time.

roots, trunks, branches, vines - roughly cut, polished or bleached
become monumental sculptures and furniture.

1: lontar vases, black teak wood
2: nature console, teak wood

and the house that he built on Sumbawa, using traditional materials, is simply beautiful.

open spaces, tall white walls, only grass shades for enclosure at night


www.jeromeabelseguin.com