Exhibition
Trace: distilled nature
6 Mar 2020 – 31 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- 12:30 – 19:30
- Tuesday
- 12:30 – 19:30
- Wednesday
- 12:30 – 19:30
- Thursday
- 12:30 – 19:30
- Friday
- 12:30 – 19:30
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- New Road
- Rye
- TN31 7LS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- From Hastings: Aprox 50 minutes. Depart Hastings Station, Bay F, Bus Number 100 (Hastings-Camber-Lydd) Arrive Rye, Freda Gardham School stop. (Right outside The School). Service Run by Stagecoach. From Tenterden: Aprox 45 minutes. Depart Tenterden (opp The Vine) Bus 312 (Tenterden – Rye), Arrive Rye Railway Station (stop D). Service run by Coastal Coaches.
- Rye Rail Station is 10 minutes walk. Ashford: 25 minute journey time. Hastings: Aprox 20 minutes. London approx 2hours and 30 minutes with changes
An exhibition of paintings by Helen Rawlinson and Sarah Seymour. Both artists distil the aspects of nature that fascinate them by means of colour in order to depict the essence of their subject at its most fundamental.
About
Opening: 6th March 2020, 5:30-7:30pm,
On show weekdays 12:30-19:30pm until 31st March 2020
Free parking on car park next to venue
The exhibition’s title ‘Traces’ has sadly received an extra layer of poignancy after the catastrophic wildfires ravaged the area Sarah Seymour’s Australian Bird series was inspired by when she visited in 2019.
Selecting only the birds Sarah encountered as a starting point, this recent work strives to encapsulate the essence of these birds by stripping away much of the form and leaving the colour to depict the species.
Sarah has been a studio holder at Rye Creative Centre since 2014. After a varied career including work with animals and conservation work, the natural world appears in much of the work she now produces. Sarah has previously created a series of works inspired by the landscape of Dungeness where she lives, concentrating on skyscapes to depict an emotional response.
Helen Rawlinson is showing her new body of work, inspired by looking at close up images of flowers combined with an obsession of the eroded layers of pattern and colour on walls and floors. In an organic process she builds colour and pattern using collage, print as well as oil with wax on canvas or board.
Helen lives and works in East Sussex with a studio at Rye Creative Centre.
She has worked in the design industry and education using all areas of textile design and making. Now painting in oils these textile print influences continue to emerge with colour as a major factor.
