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www.chalkgallery.org.uk 4, north street, lewes, east sussex bn7 2pa. tel 01273 474477 open 10.00am - 5.00pm 7 days a week Kaleidoscope 16th July to 24th August featured artist every three weeks new exhibitions every six weeks the friendliest artist-led gallery in town, showcasing original, affordable art by 21 professional artists info@chalkgallery.org.uk
Gallery Round-up Abstract prints, enigmatic figures and cows with attitude Four Square Fine Arts Summer Exhibition ‘Art on Paper’ showcases two of Britain’s most famous contemporary painters, John Hoyland and Craigie Aitchison, (see above) working in a medium that is relatively new to them - print-making. Producing prints makes a painter more accessible to the public, as they can sell more frames at cheaper prices. “They have both been helped by the London-based company Advanced Graphics, which has taught them to apply their techniques to print,” says Sonia Crivello, who runs the gallery space. She’s particularly excited about Hoyland’s work. “He’s one of the most important post-war abstract artists,” she says. “At first he produced rather formal compositions, but he has more recently broken his own mould and moved on. His strength is his astute use of contemporary colours. You don’t get the texture he achieves with his painting, but he’s been able to convey the vigour and tone and the boldness of his colours very well in his prints.” Aitchison’s work is of brightly-coloured New Testament representations in a naïve style; a third artist, print-maker Trevor Jones, is also on show. Throughout the month (and for most of August, too) the Charleston Gallery will be filled with the fascinating paintings of Patrick Burke. Burke has a very quiet public persona, but he can count on some influential fans, including the revered critic Norbert Lynton, who writes of his enigmatic, contextless portraits, ‘There is a fine tradition of W W W. V i V a l E W E S . C o M a r t a n d a b o u t imaginative figure painting within modern art in spite of all the emphasis on impressionistic and expressionistic styles, on abstraction and surrealist fantasy. The figures we see here belong to this poetic tradition. It is not especially English, though a few English painters contributed to it brilliantly, among them Edward Burra and John Armstrong. It belongs more to the Continent, to France and Italy, and to some German painters of the Twenties.” The group of artists who run the Chalk Gallery take it in turns to take the spotlight as ‘featured artist’ for three week stretches. This month the honour falls to Amy Williams, a pen and ink artist who specialises in portraits of farmyard animals, and especially cows (see below), in pen and ink. If you think this sounds twee, think again. Amy’s animals look you straight in the eye, as if to say ‘what are you looking at?’ You might remember her work from our December <strong>issue</strong>: we commissioned her to paint the image we used on the cover, of a turkey with attitude. Finally it’s worth mentioning the ‘Body of Work’ exhibition, arranged by a group of Brightonbased artists in the Market Lane Garage. The group is an eclectic mix of self-styled ‘cutting edge’ artists whose work will fit the dimensions of the vast warehouse, an excellent setting for such projects.” V Alex Leith HQ Gallery 012 8 8 9 Chalk Gallery 012
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