Exhibitions

No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning female artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey, and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.  I am delighted to be included in this exhibition, curated by Jacquiline Creswell, at the Vanner Gallery, which brings together mid-career women artists in a show which...

Together We Rise comprises over 25 artworks by Royal Society of Sculptors members, presented within Chichester Cathedral. The work responds to the artists’ experience of the pandemic, their resilience, sense of community, and collective hope The exhibition will open at Chichester Cathedral on 27th June and runs until 6th September 2022 During this challenging period, a group of...

Epiphany: Swarm Blur Sharyn’s Shed Series (300 x 200mm) The Epiphany series are glass sketches with colourful enamels fired onto the surface, edged with copper, and with an optional oak stand.  The sketches are colourful abstracts inspired by aspects of an experience, painted onto glass with a history, previously a shed window or a greenhouse or a front door, so has had all...

Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created primitive vaulted spaces which are natural...

Rise 4 in progress in the studio in 2020 Three Artists – Open Studio Event to coincide with Arts by The Sea Sunday 27th September and Sunday 4th October 12.00 noon to 5.00 pm by appointment Artspace Studio, 44 Southwood Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth BH6 3QB David Bird – recent photographs. David is a photographer and lecturer with over 30 years of experience, from...

https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/29272-homegrown/ As a keen follower of Homegrown since it’s establishment, I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature on Hauser & Wirth’s website Homegrown page from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT. Click here to follow the link Special thanks to...

I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature on Hauser & Wirth’s website Homegrown page from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT. Special thanks to the New York Homegrown team. “Press Release Hauser & Wirth Launches Homegrown with Artworks by Worldwide Staff and Their Families Presented as...

“Homegrown Press Release Hauser & Wirth Launches Homegrown with Artworks by Worldwide Staff and Their Families Presented as Bi-weekly Online Exhibitions Proceeds Will Go to Artists with 10% Going to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO hauserwirth.com Release Dates: 9 May – 18 July 2020 On 9 May, Hauser & Wirth will launch Homegrown, a...

As the pandemic extended my thoughts were taken over by this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem has led to the conditions for a virus such as this coming about. My response to the situation we find ourselves in has been to create a...

Tokyo National Museum is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is huge, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist deities, Shinto deities and portraits of people” There is room to appreciate each of...