Exhibition

John Wiltshire. Bees and Wands

2 May 2020 – 30 May 2020

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:30 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:30 – 17:00
Thursday
10:30 – 17:00
Friday
10:30 – 17:00
Saturday
10:30 – 17:00
Sunday
10:30 – 17:00

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John writes "The bees derived from working on a project for the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth with Cambridge University Museum of Zoology in 2009.

About

We recreated his beetle collection as paper models and this necessitated looking at insects in detail. Since then they have become subjects for portraits.

We are alert to our surroundings and notice the incongruous. I tend to collect objects everywhere I go. Things usually jump out at me and become souvenirs or talismans of a place or time or person, or emotion or moment or idea. I also save ribbons and string from gifts because I enjoy concealed inspiration from loved ones.

These collections provide components for assemblages, which then become painted. Resembling ‘wands’ they began in the 1980’s in collaboration with another artist. We posted a stick back and forth attaching more and more found objects. This work is still often the donor for paintings and gets updated with new objects and reinvented.

Making paintings is a way of marking life and stopping time. It offers a resistance to our fast paced lives and imagery in which there can be resolution and stillness."

OPENING RECEPTION & MEET THE ARTIST Saturday 2nd May, 11am – 2pm

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