WILD AMONG US – prints and sculptures by Laura Weston and Marjan Wouda
29th August to 26th September 2015
Open eve: Friday 25 September – 5.30 – 8.30 pm
Open Day: Saturday 26 September – 11 am – 4 pm.
Garden Party Saturday 29 August: 12.30 – 5 pm.
Open Evening:
On these three days Marjan will show extra bronze sculptures in the garden, and Laura will be on hand to explain all about the printmaking process and sign her book.
Lino cuts and sculptures cast in bronze and resin, inspired by glimpses of the wild witnessed in our urban landscape.
Sculptor Marjan Wouda & Printmaker Laura Weston first met as art students in Marseille, when their work was selected to tour in a European Exhibition of Student Art in 1987. They have remained friends; fellow travellers in art & life.
For both artists, the wild glimpsed in our everyday urban environment provides a source of unlimited fascination and inspiration. They search out the extraordinary within ordinary everyday life.
Laura draws inspiration from observation of 1920’s garden suburbs & walks in coastal & estuary landscapes of the Wirral & West Penwith. Marjan, who grew up on a farm in the Netherlands, is based in the Pennines, where industry edges onto wild moorland. She builds up her sculptures from layers of clay imprinted with objects from our domestic life: dishcloths, rope, cardboard and knitted fabric.