For our Spring exhibition we present a collection of calm and contemplative works that express ideas through dot, line, circle and simplicity of form. Award winning painter Helen Booth uses a language of dots and muted colour to explore the molecular wonder of the atmospheric world. Snowfall, and the subtleties of winter light are expressed in a limited palette of whites and dotted marks which merge space and sensory experience. Devon based sculptor Jilly Sutton MRSS uses simplicity of line and shape to explore the sculptural possibilities of trees, birds, animals and the human form. Her work combines the warmth of wood with pared down forms to celebrate the unique beauty of living things. Through hand coiling, smoke firing and burnishing, ceramicist Jane Sheppard creates forms that echo our earliest experience of hand shaping the earth, using resist techniques to add primitive surface details such as dots and circles. Painter Hannah Luxton's work exolores ideas of Animism, which attributes living souls to natural phenomena, using simplified shapes, lines and circles to express features of the material universe. Susan Laughton's background as an architecture technician is reflected in the nature of her painting, which takes an almost mathematical approach to line to create fleeting glimpses of rural and urban landscapes.
