Projects
I enjoy the challenge of a project, usually it takes the artist out of their comfort zone and asks them to address a new challenge. The project process of research and making awakens the artist’s insight. New work is enriched.
'Wendy describes finding the location in the Blackdown Hills:
It was quite a moment to find a place near Applehayes that felt right, and to reflect on why Gore stopped there and painted that scene. As I was drawing, it felt like I was seeing the place through two pairs of eyes and with two sets of sensibilities. It became even more interesting to reflect on what I could bring to the interpretation of place with a modern view.
Paradise Found: New Visions of the Blackdown Hills 2023
“A contemporary interpretation by 36 painters, printmakers and photographers walking in the footsteps of the Camden Town Group.
Conceived and arranged by Tim Craven, and co-curated by Sandra Higgins and Fiona McIntyre.
Between 1911 and 1925 the Blackdown Hills were a source of inspiration for members of the avant-garde painters of the Camden Town Group. They captured the ancient landscape and its particularity with the progressive French artistic approach of Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
36 contemporary artists including past and present members of The London Group (previously the Camden Town Group), will recapture the same sites that were painted by Spencer Gore, Charles Ginner and Robert Bevan of the Camden Town Group. The contemporary works will be exhibited alongside drawings and paintings (together with reproductions of paintings and photographs) created by Gore, Ginner and Bevan.
The environment has changed little over the last 100 years, partly due to its inaccessibility for modern development. From the surreal, abstracted, expressionist and the hyper-real to the conceptual and post-modern, the Blackdown subjects will be a vehicle to survey and consider recent developments of drawing and painting in the British landscape tradition.
The exhibition will provide a fascinating insight into the ecological, social, industrial and historic issues particular to the Blackdown Hills over the same 100 year period, examining the values and characteristics which so attracted the Camden Town artists.” Thelma Hulbert Gallery
https://www.thelmahulbert.com/?q=exhibitions/paradise-found-new-visions-blackdown-hills