Author: Stuart Fleet

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Karen Birt – The Breaking Wave
26th June to 20th July 2012
Open eve 26th June 7-9pm

“My paintings are the result of repeated returns to the same beaches in West Cornwall.  They are not generic or generalised, rather they record the exact detail of a particular incident of topography, weather and tide.  Many of the paintings centre on a wave on the point of breaking, which I see as a metaphor for the fragile glory of human existence.  My aim is to communicate an intensity of experience that creates permanence out of the fleeting moment.” Karen Birt

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The View : Under Pressure –  Jean Carus, Liz Chamberlain, Sharon Hall Shipp and Linda Pocock
29th May to 22nd June 2012
Open eve: 29th May 7-9pm

‘We are a group of Kent and Sussex based contemporary visual artists and have chosen to explore printmaking, using techniques such as monotype, linocut, collagraph, photography and digital imaging. The exhibition includes prints on paper, fabric and other media with some artists taking prints as the source material, using them as a starting point.  Other exhibits are the plates produced in the printing process, as artworks in their own right.’

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