The following artists are currently in residence:
Jane Mowat
Jane took a degree in Art
History at the Courtauld Institute in London and lectures part
time in Visual Culture and Art and Design. She is best
known, however, for her large scale woodcuts of narrative
and mythical imagery set in landscape. She exhibits
widely in London and the South West.
Venues in the last three years include the Royal Academy,
the Barbican and Mall Galleries in London, the Bridport
Art Centre, Spike Island and the Hotbath Gallery in Bath.
As well as working as a freelance artist, she takes on
private and public commissions, and runs printmaking and
carving workshops for children and adults.
Jenni Dutton
Using the subject of clothing, mainly dresses, Jenni
makes mixed media constructions, exploring the
associations around memory, myth and magic. The initial
idea may come from a certain feeling, or a thought, or
from sensations evoked by playing with materials,
combining them and letting associations develop until the
essence of the piece crystallises. The pieces are
constructed around body shapes and developed until they
can be suspended or become self supporting. Many
different media are used: netting, paper, human hair,
wax, glass, discarded fabrics and natural materials as
well as a variety of sheet metals. She sells the work at
exhibitions, or from the studio at Hurstone, and will
accept commissions. Prices range from
£200-£1,000.
Renowned for his charred oak pieces, Michael has been
diversifying into new mediums and media. As a public
artist stainless steel and stone are new materials. More
recently he has been working in sound and image, be that
sound and video (Hestercombe "Genius Loci") or
(Greenham Common. camera obscura and sound). Michael is
lead artist at present in Cambridge and Exmouth and is
regularly commissioned throughout the UK.
Michael has his own website at
www.michaelfairfax.co.uk
Louise Baker
Louise's mixed media construction boxes relate to events
and travels throughout her life. She also makes
assemblage brooches from recycled materials, mainly
copper and tin, and individual book works from handmade
paper with images and small objects included in the
structure of the paper. She works to commission for
private clients for commemorative pieces and for
public art works relating to the site for which they are made. She
has recently completed a piece for the "Somerset Now" project sited at the Willow and Wetlands
centre at Stoke St Gregory. Other public art works are
the Apple Box in
Taunton, the Stathe Bridge installation and a series of work at
Bridgwater Hospital. She also runs workshops related to
her art practise, for community
education, in schools and at Hurstone studios.
Louise Waugh
Landscape with figures, big skies, windy days, changing
light, and her own particular way of seeing. Cornwall,
Somerset, Italy and Spain. Oil, acrylic, watercolour,
drawings and etchings for sale from the studio and in
Somerset Arts Week at The Old School,
Milverton. Classes in Painting and Printmaking during Summer 2007
at Hurstone Studios.
Email Louise directly at
louise.waugh@btinternet.com or telephone 01984 629180.
