Oxmarket are delighted to welcome a group of artists exhibiting under the title Resonance - Marks of Memory, Person and Place. The exhibition brings together fellow artists whose work, though in different mediums, shares the same resonance and qualities. By looking to the landscape they explore themes of memory, place, people and the marks and traces remaining, both human and those carved by nature.
Each exhibiting artist explores the themes of the exhibition through their specialist craft.
Kathryn Green is a textile artist specialising in print and dye techniques which she utilises to explore her feelings and connection to landscape, the memories and traces that reside there and found objects.
Samantha English is a metalworker, working with both precious and non-precious metals to create vessels, landscapes, and sculptures imbuing her work with marks and colour to evoke memory.
Frances Marr is a ceramicist and printmaker drawn to found objects - the colours, textures and forms, but also the awareness of time, change and decay, and the continuing life of materials that may have fallen out of human use.
Anne Hayward is a wood engraver and artist. At the heart of her work lies a practice of closely observed drawing. Through cutting into lino or intricate incising into dense fruitwoods, she translates everyday scenes into a vocabulary of fluent mark-making.
Richard Hayward is a sculptor who pulls the focus of the Arts and Crafts movement into the 21st Century. With its clean proportions, sweeping curves and rhythmical planes, Richard uses subject matter drawn from nature and the human form.
Mark making is the common thread through all their work, each mark created from the tools and techniques of the individual artist, developed and honed through many years of experience.
The materials used by each artist respond in different ways to the techniques employed. Materials derive from the land, each maker crafting resonance and making marks in wood, metal, clay, textiles and paper, using their knowledge to shape, form, dye, print, paint, fire and sculpt.
All the work is connected by the elemental, nature, texture, surface, people and place. To the contrasts and shifts within the landscape. The traces of both human and environmental change are found through the marks that reside in the surfaces, people and landscapes they admire.
