Eighty four professional artists, in various mediums, open their studio doors, to meet you and discuss their work; you can buy at affordable prices. The Tamar Valley is an AONB, and World Heritage site, and the art here reflects an edginess often found in border country. All venues are free, and most are open every day. The Directory is avalable from July, or on our website.
A Fine Art graduate of Falmouth University, I situate the conceptual root of my work in a “Near-Death Experience” I suffered during a life threatening haemorrhage at the birth of my first child. This was a catastrophic “pause”, a transformational hiatus in my life. However, the altered state of epiphanic light I felt while on life support has remained with me and informs my art-work. I make the work in a repeated attempt to re-envision that transcendent experience and create light in each painting. While creating my art, I am in a constant dialogue with each painting, and the paintings form in a dialogue with each other. The long temporal pauses between layers of oil glaze add to the depth of meaning: slow Time and the Uncertainty of each layer are built into the finished palimpsest. The fluidity of oil dictates my finished form; I use gestural movement and impasto in which the hidden depths of paint remain as vital as the surface.
