- Venue
- New Ashgate Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, February 1, 2013
- Ends
- Saturday, March 16, 2013
- Address
- Waggon Yard Farnham GU9 7PS
- Location
- North East England
The family of Virginia Ray has lived in North Yorkshire for generations and she has a real sense of family identity in this place. Virginia explores Greenhow Hill, the highest village in Yorkshire, in an area designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty. However, with a long history of lead mining and quarrying, this is an industrial landscape; it is a scarred landscape. The work by Virginia is shown with Jessica Jordan, the ceramic artist who uses aerial views of the downs, looking at the changing landscape through the seasons. She develops her ideas through drawing, print and paint keeping a sketchbook of ideas. She explores corroded surfaces, the contrast of rough and smooth line and the patterns and texture that are found on stones, wood, glass and metal having been weathered and broken down from natural erosion.
