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Women Talking: Paintings by Janet Lynch and poetry by Ellen Phethean

Women Talking

13th Sept to 5th Oct    1 1.00 4.00pm.

Private view 4 pm Tuesday Sept 24th

The private view to which all are invited will take the form of a public discussion between Ellen and myself about all the important things in life, love, art, creativity and trying to juggle it all. Ellen will read some of her poetry, and tea will be served (and I hope cake).

Poet Ellen Phethean chose some of my paintings as a starting point for poems which now appear in her book ‘Woman Talking’. Some of the paintings were done many years ago. Most have never been seen outside the studio. We put a show together before lockdown which was to go to Newcastle where Ellen lives. It had to be cancelled but this new show, with some extra paintings added, has been created, curated by Miranda Leonard of Restless Gallery.

For more information: www.janetlynch.com

Image: The Fisherman’s Wife

From the Tremenheere website www.tremenheere.co.uk:

‘…Ellen is a life-long writer with a distinct voice. In her recent book Portrait of the Quince as an Older Woman, Ellen wrote about her life in a world made alien with loss and absence. She acknowledges aging but also the pleasure of grandchildren and the recompenses of writing. Her poems explore the older woman’s place in contemporary culture. Shedding the Niceties published last year is reviewed as a collection of ’rambunctious poems that insist on finding their own way home in the dark’.

Janet Lynch, now 84, is a painter whose work is full of life that genuinely springs forth from her brush, this current way of working represents a new way of approaching her creativity.

These two artists have much to discuss through their correspondence of paintings and poems…

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Hils Tranter @ The Gurnard’s Head

Hils Tranter is featured artist in October 2022 at The Gurnard’s Head, St Ives, TR26 3DE
EVENT: Meet the Artist
Saturday, 29 October 2022, 10.30–11.30
Meet October Artist of the Month, Hils Tranter, over tea and cake in the snug at The Gurnard’s Head.
ALL WELCOME – FREE OF CHARGE.
Hils Tranter lives and works in a quiet rural haven in west Penwith, surrounded by space and skies. Her artwork is rooted in observation – responses to internal and external weather and landscape – following what draws her attention. Journalling and mindful mark-making is at the core of her practice, often linked with themes of music, movement, rhythms and dance. Play, experimentation and daydreaming are essential to getting in the zone where magic can happen. Hils says:
“There’s usually an experience or a moment I’m trying to express or capture, though sometimes it feels like clutching at smoke.”
Instagram:
@hilstranterart
@gurnardshead
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Simon Averill in ‘Entanglement’

NSA member Simon Averill has a new show featuring his ‘Entanglement’ series of paintings at the Anima Mundi gallery in St Ives. The exhibition runs from 28th May to 11th July.

Scientists accept there is much that is unknown or misunderstood about ‘Quantum Entanglement’. It is this uncertainty that gives him scope and inspiration as an artist to imagine and explore. A physicist might say that form and colour do not, indeed cannot, exist at the fundamental level. As an artist he is not bound by these physical constraints – he has permission to misunderstand, to go beyond the physics, to make space for imagination and art.

These paintings are part of a series of over a hundred works that act like thought experiments taking place obsessively and systematically over a number of recent years. Speculative decisions are applied and carried out, each brushstroke a particle, each layer a wave.

 

As a painter I deal with illusory space on a two dimensional surface. I am testing the possibilities of liminal space where the focus of attention is on or just below the surface. My aim is to heighten the tensions that exist in and between the paintings; the juxtaposition of colour and mark create an optical disturbance that requires the eye to be constantly shifting to locate a point of focus. I work on the paintings in pairs, as they progress the connection can become more or less explicit. New entanglements are made on the surface of each painting and, I hope, in the eye and mind of the viewer. Importantly, I envisage that these pairs will become separated, yet their entangled relationships will remain wherever the individual works are located, accentuating my own interpretation of ‘action at a distance’.

 

Further information about the exhibition can be found on the Anima Mundi website Preview Friday 27 May, 6.00-9.00 pm. The artist will also be present for an Open Day on Saturday 28 May from 2.00 – 4.00 pm.

Anima Mundi, Street-an-Pol, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 2DS

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