WILD ( sculptures in the garden) – by Marjan Wouda
30 June – 26 September 2015
Open Evening: 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.
On these three days Marjan will show extra bronze sculptures in the garden.
Sculptures cast in bronze and resin, inspired by animals wild, and wildly imagined. For more information about the artist visit: www.marjanwouda.com
This exhibition in the garden leads up to a joint show in the gallery from 29 August, together with printmaker Laura Weston.
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. Her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections as far afield as New Zealand, the US and the Caribbean and several major towns and cities in the UK.
“Here is someone whose work is indeed true sculpture. She possesses an almost surreal twist to her work that immediately makes it thought provoking. Some of her work has a tenderness that is most moving, an emotion that is usually lacking in modern sculpture.” (the late Sir Kyffin Williams, RA )