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John Leach Gallery
09 January - 24 March 2010
Monday - Saturday 9am-1pm, 2-5pm
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'group 7'
was established in the 1970’s and two of the very
early members, Dennis Hill and Keyna Emerson are still with
the group. Since then Bonnie Brown, Peter Symons, Ursula
Leach, Brian Bishop and Michael Griffiths have joined.
The group (originally known as the '7 Artists') was formed
of painters and printmakers living close to each other
geographically on the Hampshire/ Dorset border. In the
1970’s they met regularly for portrait and figure studies,
whilst in the summer months worked at outdoor venues. Now,
they continue to meet once a month to share news, ideas, and
techniques and to talk about each other’s work in their
studios.
They enjoy exhibiting together and are building up a
considerable reputation within the Wessex region and beyond.
Although they exhibit together and discuss their approach
and ideas with one another, 'group 7' do not espouse a
common artistic style or philosophy, they have all developed
a very individual artistic vision and practice.
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Dennis Hill
With watercolour, I work
mainly on location, which requires quick decision making. I
try to keep things simple and clean. I am fascinated by
light effects and endeavour to capture them. My drawing is
confined to the brush, any errors are washed away with no
paper damage. |
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Bonnie Brown
These paintings are those of someone who consistently
challenges herself with her chosen mediums, through the
technical, aesthetic and the emotional, along with her
response to the joy of colour and quirky relationships; so,
in understanding the iconography and imagery, is to find a
rewarding and constantly evolving pleasure to the viewer
prepared to engage. |
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Keyna Emerson
I
trained at the Slade, Post War and have returned to painting
since the family have grown up. I am interested in
reflections in glass and things half seen, buildings and
dusk, using mainly mixed media and sometimes collage. |
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Brian Bishop
My
work is an engagement with colour and structure of a
non-narrative nature, they do not inform with text or images
drawn from the world about us, thus, allowing the
imagination to explore and make fresh interpretations of
colour and structure in the same way that you would listen
to a piece of music or view the work of a choreographer,
sculptor or architect. |
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Ursula Leach
I
make paintings, prints and drawings responding to the chalk
landscape of Cranborne Chase. It is a mainly arable
landscape where the variety of marks and colours are
endlessly fascinating and informative. The work is, to some
extent , about current agricultural practises, but firstly
is about the formal issues of image making. |
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Peter Symons
My painting
combines the use of landscape to express ideas about time
and place with motifs inspired by landscape to prompt memory
or emotion. My method is to take the motif out of its
topographical landscape and combine it with colour, surface,
texture and drawing, producing a personal account of place,
both real and imagined. |
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Michael Griffiths
I use drawing and painting to pose questions, to explore
possibilities and to make thinking visible. The French
sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, used the term ‘habitus’ to
describe a system of dispositions, tastes and
preferences which define the individual. These recent
drawings and paintings use codes and ciphers to create
metaphorical statements which explore and discuss the
experiences, histories, interrelationships which
characterise the individual. They explore the notion of ‘habitus’.
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