Rewind

15th to 25th November 2024
Preview Drinks Thursday 14th Nov 6-8pm
Gallery open daily 11-4pm

Helen Pakeman, Pamela Dew and Janet Price work with basketry, weaving and paint. Their work is rooted in a deep relationship with the landscape and its ecosystems. Through walking, cycling and close observation they have become concerned with the fractious nature of our relationship with the landscape. Their work aims to restore connection through a variety of materials and processes; and to challenge thinking that denies the symbiotic nature of all life on Earth. The act of making art requires a slowing down and intense scrutiny: time to rewind and reflect. 

Pam Dew's practice is rooted in nature, and a responsibility to communicate the inherent need of human beings for a symbiotic way of living. It is influenced by her experiences encountered during time spent ‘within nature’ and an ongoing interest in how the use of textile processes have the ability to communicate a narrative.

As an artist, Dew has a profound love of colour, textiles and cycling. She works intuitively with her materials as directly as possible, avoiding complicated mechanical equipment and preparation. A mixture of yarn, wool, silk, string, ropes, and threads are sculpturally integrated by weaving, wrapping, and twining to create entangled forms. This methodology allows the work to grow and evolve to convey messages of interconnectivity, caring, and support to create a harmonious coexistence of all life on earth.

Helen Pakeman is a multi media artist preoccupied with climate change and its effects.  Her work recognises the current mood of anxiety about our environment and the fragility of our ecosystems. 

 Through textiles, print, clay, and basketry she captures abstract ideas.  Her practice is led by ideas of ‘abundance’ and ‘absence’, and the disparity between what we unknowingly had, and what has now been lost.  Her aim is to communicate her own sense of growing dismay and perhaps help to provoke action as a result.

Janet Price is a painter concerned with the natural world: landscape and man’s interaction with it. Her stimulus comes from walking and observing the changing ecosystems of the hills, forests and chalk streams of the South Downs where she lives. Starting with drawings and photographs, the landscapes are cropped and simplified to create a conversation between line, shape and colour imbued with energy and movement. Moving between abstraction and representation, her paintings explore both the natural forms of landscape and the visible effects of man’s activity over time: hill forts, footpaths, field shapes, motorway cuttings, erosion and pollution.The speed of working in acrylics allows for transparent layers to embody luminosity that reflects the light and clarity of her surroundings. Her work conveys the tension between the destructive mark-making of human activity and a need to preserve and celebrate the benefits of being in the landscape.