INTERWOVEN - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: Crypt Gallery
Starts: Saturday, March 22, 2025
Ends: Friday, March 28, 2025
Address: Crypt Gallery St Ives Society of Artists Norway Square, Saint Ives TR26 1NA
Location: South West England
Organiser: Crypt Gallery, St Ives Society of Ives< Norway Square, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 2SX

Sunday 23rd to Friday 28th March 2025 Private view Saturday 22nd 4pm to 7pm

Opening times Sunday to Friday 10.30am to 5pm

Interwoven features four artists –Anna Clarke, Liz Hewitt, Carla Mines & Gwynne Penny – exploring connections with the natural world through painting, sculpture, printing making & textile art. Sustainability plays an important role in their work, helping to minimise their artistic footprint whilst embracing a commitment to minimising waste.

Anna Clarke is a mixed media artist who founded Create Nourish Heal to blend her passions for creativity and wellness, empowering others to prioritize their health. Drawing inspiration from her personal journey, the landscapes of St Ives and Salcombe, and a passion for recycling & sustainability, Anna creates textured, abstract art using a variety of media, including upcycled clothing, paper collage, and eco-printing using natures foliage.

www.annaclarke.co.uk Instagram annaclarke.createnourishheal

Liz Hewitt is a mixed media artist who uses ecologically sustainable processes to colour and mark cloth/paper, thereby releasing nature’s hidden beauty.
A sense of place is central to her work using found objects, windfall leaves and natural pigments collected from the landscape in her practice. Artisan made and vintage natural fabrics play an important role in her work, paying homage to nature and traditional sustainable methods of making, whilst embracing a commitment to minimising waste and toxicity.

To Liz, cloth is the silent companion of us all; used to protect, comfort, decorate and express our identity. She uses the process of hand stitch to express the thoughts and emotions felt as she walks the landscape, whilst calming her mind and body.

For this exhibition Liz will be documenting the marks & feelings she has observed on her walks through the Cornish Landscape; capturing moments in time within each piece.

www.celticstitch.co.uk Instagram:stitchliz

Making art for Carla Mines is the ability to communicate the wonder of nature. She wishes the work to provoke a poetic response in the viewer, to the beauty of nature and the need to protect it, and rethink our relationship with the Earth, in the hope we will amend our destructive practices.

Her work in this exhibition illustrates the abundant and incredible patterns of single celled organisms in the sea and waterways that produce 50-80% of oxygen on Earth and form the basis of food for marine life; which are being irretrievably harmed by plastic pollution.

Gwynne Penny is a multi-disciplinary visual artist who works with biomorphic shapes to explore the internal and external landscape. Imagination, memory and a strong sense of place is woven into her pieces.

Her work is inspired by the intertidal zone of the shoreline, which she explores through painting, using acrylics and/or oil, digital photography, sketching and assemblage sculpture with found and recycled materials. An explorer with an experimental approach, Gwynne’s work is a response to her experiences and observations over time of this unique environment and embody a strong sense of place, curiosity and imagination. Within the work is a hint at fragility below the surface, as each ebb and flow of the tide brings change, marks the passing of time, and emphasises the impermanence of everything.