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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.’
THE VIEW – Under Pressure
The View is a group of Kent and Sussex based contemporary visual artists who work in a wide variety of 2D and 3D media, including oil, acrylic, photography and digital imaging, video, audio, print, textiles and wood.
For this exhibition, The View has chosen to explore printmaking. Some artists in the group use traditional techniques such as monotype, linocut and collagraph and others work with photography, digital imaging and solar plate etching. A number of artists use several processes to produce hybrid prints and others take prints as the source material, using them as the starting point for their work. The exhibition includes prints on paper, fabric and other media.
Recent exhibitions include The Tunnel Gallery at Tonbridge School.
Please visit our website http://theartistsview.moonfruit.com/ to see more of our work.
Sharon Hall Shipp
Originally from Staffordshire, I have been living in the south east since 1985. I have been taking photographs for over 30 years but in the last five years, since studying fine art at K College in Tonbridge, I have expanded my art practice into other media, including printmaking and 3D. One major strand of work is based on combining my own photographs with found images and using digital mark making techniques, to create and combine many layers. My principal interests centre on domestic and office interiors and the architecture of garages, shops and the commonplace. In this exhibition I am showing work based on images of abandoned cold war and nuclear bunkers. More of my work can be seen at www.sharonhallshipp.co.uk
Linda Pocock
I live and work in Tunbridge Wells with my husband and three lively teenage children.
My art practice is chiefly concerned with organic forms and marks left by man. I use a wide range of media which include photography, collage, textiles, printmaking and mark making using inks, corrosives and burning.
Jean Carus
I was bought up in East Kent and enjoyed studying art to A level. I left the rural life to train to be a paediatric nurse in London where I continued to work until having a family. Art was on the back burner for many years until I returned to nursing and realised it was time for a change. Adult Education led on to a Foundation Degree at my local college where I was lucky to meet my fellow colleagues. I am glad I made the change!
Liz Chamberlain
Born in Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, I have lived in Kent ever since. I have studied on various courses over the years ranging from ceramics to silver jewellery making and recently spent four years at K College in Tonbridge studying Fine Art. The main subject areas of my work have been my family and the surrounding countryside of my home near Sevenoaks, Kent. I am interested in experimenting with processes and have produced work in various media such as glass, clay and plaster. My most recent interest is printing and have produced work using methods such as collagraphs, monoprint, lino and reduction lino. When making collagraph prints, occasionally I find that instead of using the prints as the end product, I have gone on to exhibit the plates as final pieces, some of which you can see in this exhibition. I very much enjoy being part of the group of artists called ‘The View’ who work and exhibit together.