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Sonnet to a Garden. Acrylic on canvas. 100 x 100cm. Claire Scott
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Heather in Wales. Ceramic Vessel. Kirsty Macrae
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A Light Rain of Flowers. Acrylic on canvas. 60 x 76cm. Claire Scott
Exhibition
Claire Scott 'Visions of a Walled Garden'
3 Oct 2020 – 31 Oct 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Timezone: Europe/London
- Language: English
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Claire Scott new paintings from time spent at Wildegoose Nursery.
Ceramics by Kirsty Macrae
About
“In September 2019 I spent some time drawing at Wildegoose Nursery in South Shropshire, an exquisite garden surrounded by a high, red brick wall.
This experience became unexpectedly rich with metaphor during Lockdown when I was barred from the hills I love and felt cut off from the horizon. I dug into my walled garden memories and the remembered emotion of being constrained within a gorgeous, secret world.
The tangle of my family’s noise and the narrowed parameters of our lives found expression as
I painted. So did the ever present anxiety of pandemic. Light and shade, always.
As Lockdown eased, my use of walled garden as metaphor for self increased. The paintings became less concerned with response to outward circumstances and more focussed on my own interior life. Thus several titles have been taken from the garden section of The Song of Songs where the intimacy of lovers is used as metaphor for divine love; “The Winter is past”, “Love is as Strong as Death”, “The Season of Singing has Come”.
