some rocks & a hard place

About

'some rocks & a hard place' is an exhibition of husband and wife, Ben Coode-Adams and Freddie Robins who bring their paintings and sculptures to the sentinel gallery in a month long exhibition. 

some rocks:
Freddie Robins questions all your assumptions about wool, women, comfort and nurturing by undermining and exploding them in her art. Her new work involves the use of flints. These stones, geologically enigmatic, their formation a mystery, litter the farm where Robins lives. She collects the ones that look like witches’ gnarled fingers. The oscillation between cosy warm fluffy wool and flinty hard unyielding stone is surprising, uncomfortable and pregnant with secret power. 

a hard place: 
Ben Coode-Adams is the hard man of watercolour. His paintings do not conform to the stereotype of old-fashioned amateurish en plein air landscapes. His paintings are rigorous and uncompromising even dangerous. Coode-Adams likes it when things are unexpected. The paints he uses are ground up gems stones that have unpredictable chemical reactions. On one level he is painting just to see what happens. His imagery bubbles up through the paint surface. 

In Coode-Adams’ paintings small-time gods emerge from the warp and weft of a multidimensional universe. For him the act of painting is a spirit-journey where he blindly gropes towards a fully formed image that he can’t quite grasp. The image has to be painstakingly constructed of veils spun from the lower world. 

These painting come from a body of work made while Coode-Adams has been suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E). This disease meant he could not undertake any physical work but he has been able to paint. As his health has improved he has been bingeing on paint. 

Category: Arts | Visual Arts | Galleries / Art.

Artists / Speakers: Ben Coode-Adams, Freddie Robins.

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