THREE ARTISTS
SUSAN JOHN, CYNTH WEYMAN, DARREN YEADON

Monday 5 December 2005- Wednesday 4 January 2006

Susan John
Datganiad Personol

Having always loved drawing and painting I decided to broaden my horizons by taking up stained glass under the expert eye of Kate Derbyshire at Llanofer Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff. It was not long afterwards that I discovered the wild and wonderful world of combining glass and tiles. I hope my pictures speak for themselves.

Cynth Weyman
Metamorphosis Series

Body shapes are combined with natural forms to form part of a personal symbolic language and create a series of large-scale artworks as conversation pieces on landings, staircases, above sofas and mantle-pieces.

Initially, simple shapes such as seed heads and fungi enabled me to develop a unique textile technique based on intaglio strata using the same approach as in etching, i.e. working from the back to the front. Water-colour paintings formed the necessary information to create a pattern and to calculate the number of layers of fabric and the colours needed. Also, to identify areas to be enhanced by embroidery thread, beads and seeds.

Working in fabrics and thread allows me to explore my drawings to provide another dimension. I often work on a theme exploring it through several media and related subjects resulting in several pieces of work. Colour and symbolic imagery provide the atmosphere or mood within the final pictures. Textures offer additional dimensions and bring the images from 2D to 3D. There is also a depth of field in the finished pieces. My experiences in photography and etching have certainly influenced this textile relief technique. Sometimes, enlarged photographs are slipped in to create an optical illusion. Every shape, colour and medium is explored until exhaustion.

Themes include botanical images, fungi, erosion, being a female and bilingual artist and personal life experiences that relate to many viewers’ own experiences – relationships, bereavement, moving on and the impact of our surroundings. I have a varied lifetime of experiences for inspiration and welcome a challenge as a means of stretching my imagination and media. The textile works shown in this exhibition are typical of pieces that can be commissioned to express buyers own stories as conversation pieces. www.cynthweyman-artist.co.uk


Darren Yeadon
You just don’t know how hard it is!

A sculpture is an object formed in such a way that it is something pleasing and provocative to the eye, or to touch. Of equal importance are the negative spaces created within and around the piece.

I am a great believer that what you see is what you get. There is some honesty and integrity in dragging a heavy piece of rock, hacking away at it with sledgehammers, cutters and chisels. After time and toil it is transformed, with fine tools and techniques, into a finished work of art.

I served my apprenticeship at a quarry in North Yorkshire rather than an art school and spent the early stages of my career as a stonemason, learning how to quarry, cut and dress stone. After a serious car accident in my twenties I pieced my life back together and decided to start using stone as a creative medium.

The overwhelming brilliance of nature is the basis for my imagination. My drive is to give back something to life.

For the past two years I have been working in Carrara on the very same quarry face used by Michelangelo. Marble is hard to work and time consuming. I suddenly had to adapt my traditional skills and in time learned a few new ones. I began to explore possibilities in the medium, developing new twists to my style.

An artist’s life is reflected in his/her work. This exhibition of some of my sculptures is in a way a reflection of my own life; positive and negative spaces, good days and bad days. I hope that you like them.

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