We are so excited to announce our next exhibition preview which will take place on the 21st September from 12 noon til 4pm, the exhibition will then run for 4 weeks.
As always everyone is welcome to the preview...
The exhibition is showcasing husband & wife David & Sarah Cemmick's work, David being a sculptor both in bronze & paper & Sarah a print maker, producing fantastic linocuts....
Here is a little about each of them...
Sarah Cemmick...
Sarah Graduated in Environmental illustration at the University of Sunderland in 1996
With the help of the Prince’s Trust she began printmaking full time, which started a love affair with Lino.
In 1998 she received the Lloyd’s private banking award from the Society of Wildlife Artists at The Mall Galleries. London for her print ‘Rhino Lino’.
Using traditional techniques, with the same set of tools she has used since her very first linocut, designs are carved into Lino blocks. Prints are pulled using linseed oil ink which allows some pieces to be additionally tinted with watercolour to give added texture.
Influenced by wildlife be it fluffy, furry or feathered, Sarah has continued to explore a variety of themes, the Hare being a particular favourite.
The current collection of work has focused on the positioning of each subject on the paper. The space to let the viewer decide on what the animal is thinking, its next move or feeling.
David Cemmick...
David is from our region, brought up amongst the farmlands of County Durham, his obsession with our wildlife and that of further afield is a life long love...
David strives to communicate his deep fascination in the natural world. A distillation of thousands of hours of observation, life drawing, travel and adventure informs his work. He is a watcher of people and animals, a searcher for the beating heart that connects all life.
In lock down David was forced to use other materials for his sculpture as working in bronze wasn't viable at the time, the fact that David's work is always evolving is amazing & his recent work in paper is what this exhibition will focus on....
'So, here I am on yet another re-cycling run to the tip! The boot of my car is stuffed to the roof with flattened cardboard boxes from my Amazon purchases over the lock-down months, like so many people across the world.
I arrive at the recycling bins and they are all full.
"Ok, so think outside 'the box'", I tell myself. " You're an artist, get creative".
As an animal artist and conservationist I have visited rainforests to record, in my paintings and sculpture, the threatened wildlife in their fragile, dwindling forest habitat.
My artistic output over the past fifteen years has focused on foundry bronze limited editions, for UK galleries and private clients.
But bronze is a time and money thirsty animal to feed, heavy to transport and with a heavy carbon footprint.
What if I could re-imagine my car full of cardboard into works of art. Large but light, using recycled material both fragile yet strong, much like the threatened Amazonian animals themselves, and made from my Amazon cardboard boxed purchases.
So this is what I have done...
Using Cumbrian rainwater to soften the cardboard which can then be carefully deconstructed to reveal the many and varied qualities, textures and colours of this amazing material... paper.
Aware of ancient Chinese lacquer techniques first produced in Neolithic times, and lasting hundreds of years, I began to experiment.
Brushed with modern wood glue and draped over simple wire frames, the final results are hard and strong, yet capture the fragility and vulnerability of the creatures themselves.
Each sculpture is unique. A one of a kind, hand built creation. To some I add colour, others are left natural to appreciate the simple beauty of cardboard.
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