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Lost Horizons : Julia Cooper & Jane Wheeler
10 October - 7 November 2015
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4 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZMon - Sat 10am - 6pm (Wed 2pm - 6pm)
01225 460189
www.davidsimoncontemporary.com
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Lost Horizons : Julia Cooper & Jane Wheeler
10 October - 7 November 2015
The paintings of Julia Cooper convey a sense of working from memories of a place but also memories and observations of objects and materials such as the worn layers of paint on the hull of a fishing boat, or the weather-battered stonework of a harbour wall. Julia’s paintings are built up through many layers of paint, oil stick and charcoal, and like the surfaces of the harbour walls and the cliff edges, these are often partially scraped back to reveal a history. The enjoyment of the materials that she uses and the simple profundity of mark-making is as important as the subject of each painting – the technique is the content.
Jane Wheeler’s ceramics reflect the same ideas of age and history through the building of layers in her distinctive technique. Through the development of each vessel, Jane adds a combination of coarse grog, slips, oxide and chun glazes to the slab-built structures, exploring surface textures and a history to each piece.
This is an exhibition that takes hold of very traditional subjects – still life, landscape, bottles and vessels, and uses these themes to express a unique and personal response - both of these artists have acknowledged the notion of their subject and have gone on to truly explore their main focus: their enjoyment and mastery of their respective materials.
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Pinkmixed media on canvas80 x 100cm£2,250 4
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Julia CooperJulia Cooper paints using different media including oil paint, oil stick, crayon and graphite. Surfaces are washed with colour then scored, scraped back or obliterated to create an interesting narrative which allows her to explore colour and rhythm. Whether abstract or figurative the image is discovered through this process. Julia’s studio overlooks Fowey harbour where the changes of light on the water’s surface are reflected in her use of colour.
Julia has exhibited her work widely in the United Kingdom and her work has several times been featured in Cornwall Today. She was also included in Cornish Muse, Helen Hoyle’s ‘Women Artists.’ Her studies include a Fine Art Diploma with Distinction and Interior Design Diploma, the latter which resulted in her working with the Cornwall National Trust on their 87 holiday cottage refurbishment projects.
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Hazelnutmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
Tansymixed media on panel17x 27cm£450
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Hickorymixed media on panel44 x 54cm£900
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Jane WheelerJane Wheeler was born and raised in Norfolk and studied in ceramics at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham.
For Jane, the vessel is a space-containing hollow form that offers the richest language for working in clay. Its conceptual simplicity allows readings which allude to our most distant cultural pasts, and to the state of being human. Its limitations are those for which the potter’s tools and equipment are designed. Jane Wheeler finds it essential to push the boundaries in order to attempt discovery of new or hidden qualities of this profoundly significant, yet ordinary object.
The apparent fragility and age of these vessels tempers their insistent sense of function. The cracks in a bottle form which deny it the possibility of containing a liquid produce a deliberate uncertainty about what constitutes a vessel. The appearance of age and wear, as if the pieces had somehow been weathered and eroded over geological and archaeological timescales, evokes a sense of history and of humanity.
Jane’s vessels are made of stoneware clay bodies with added coarse grog, sand, quartz and feldspar granules. They are reduction fired to 1260-1300 º C. Layers of oxide, slip, and chun glaze producing the textured surface which both reflects and absorbs light and refracts it where the chun gathers into thick runs full of miniscule bubbles.
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Clematis Stem Bottle24 x 22cm£600
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Spring Rain Carved Stitch Bottle16 x 11cm£220
Rainy Day Clematis Bottle16 x 11cm£230
Spring Rain V Bidori Bottle16 x 11cm£280
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Buttermilkmixed media on panel38 x 49cm£750
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Pont Pillmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
Blue Gribbinmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
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Ruanmixed media on canvas80 x 100cm£2,250 13
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Boragemixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
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Spring Rain Clematis Winged Bottle25 x 20cm£450
Drennickmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
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Turmericmixed media on canvas80 x 100cm£2,250 16
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Rainy Day Carved Stitches21 x 22cm£620
Rainy Day Moon Clematis Impression22 x 22cm£620
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Troughmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
Squallmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
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Lanticmixed media on panel38 x 49cm£750
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Comfreymixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
Olivemixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
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Alemixed media on panel44 x 55cm£850
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Large Black Ice Meander Flagon55 x 42cm£1,250
Large Black Ice Listening Pod49 x 29cm£600 22
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Rainy Day Clematis Impression Bottle17 x 11cm£230
Rainy Day Clematis Impression Bottle17 x 11cm£230
Black Ice Bottle16 x 11cm£220
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Aperitifmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
Spicemixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
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Thymemixed media on panel48 x 38cm£750
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Krugmixed media on canvas80 x 100cm£2,250 26
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Spring Rain Clematis Winged Bottle17 x 18cm£280
Carved Stitches on Spring Rain Bottle41 x 21cm£750 27
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Melting Ice Meander Listening Pod50 x 23cm£600
Rainy Day Clematis Impression Bottle21 x 22cm£620
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Clematis Stem Bottle23 x 22cm£550
Carved Stitches with Combed Circles on Pearly Chun Glaze23 x 25cm£650 29
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Walnutmixed media on panel48 x 38cm£750
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Novembermixed media on panel18x 24cm£450
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Riprapmixed media on canvas58 x 68cm£1,250
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Quaymixed media on canvas80 x 97cm£2,250 33
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Spring Rain Clematis Winged Bottle15 x 15cm£280
Rainy Day Clematis Impression Bottle34 x 16cm£600 34
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Carved Stitches on Black Ice Bottle15 x 11cm£220
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Slipmixed media on panel22 x 28cm£475
Paddlemixed media on panel18 x 24cm£450
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Quaymixed media on panel46 x 68cm£1,150
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4 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZMon - Sat 10am - 6pm (Wed 2pm - 6pm)
01225 460189
www.davidsimoncontemporary.com