Eastlife Spring 2021
This is our fourth issue during the pandemic. Fourth! I can’t quite believe it. Like many other businesses we have learned to adapt. I am no longer flustered when events are cancelled at the last moment before print, it has become the norm.
This is our fourth issue during the pandemic. Fourth! I can’t quite believe it. Like many other businesses we have learned to adapt. I am no longer flustered when events are cancelled at the last moment before print, it has become the norm.
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The Arts Column<br />
Written by Collette Hoefkens<br />
Proprietor at Norton Way Gallery and artist<br />
www.nortonwaygallery.com<br />
Beech-Mist – Gary Cook<br />
Day-in-the-Sun – David Parfitt<br />
The days are growing longer and so too, hope starts to blossom<br />
in our hearts. Nurture this feeling with an indulgent and<br />
necessary feast upon the arts. The doors may be closed but the<br />
websites are very much open, bringing our wonderful regional<br />
galleries, directly into our homes. With a vast number to choose<br />
from, here are two recommendations, just for starters.<br />
The superb Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex, is scheduling two<br />
exhibitions to run side by side from March to May. The Rye<br />
Society of Artists (RSA), ‘There will be Growth in <strong>Spring</strong>’ and<br />
Nick Archer, ‘Somewhere the Grass is Greener’. Both promise to<br />
be uplifting and exciting new collections.<br />
The RSA are a society of around 50 members, all of whom are<br />
professional artists, living and working in the Rye area. The<br />
collective work will include a wide breadth of media, with the<br />
focus on that most hopeful of all seasons, spring. Look out for<br />
works by the renowned Fred Cuming RA and Robert Greenhalf.<br />
Nick Archer, also an RSA member, accompanies this group with<br />
a solo showing of his own work. He is a prestigious awardwinning<br />
artist who trained at the Royal Academy Schools in<br />
London. His strangely familiar works are both compelling and<br />
haunting. Exploring the relationship between the natural world<br />
and its place in our imagination, he uses many visual layers of<br />
film, art and folklore references within his vibrant, mysterious<br />
and most thought provoking, oil paintings.<br />
Further north, you will find the wonderful Sea Pictures Gallery<br />
in Suffolk. Nestled in the heart of its smallest town Clare, this<br />
beautiful gallery is a treasure trove of original art and is fully<br />
operational online. Amongst an excellent collection of original,<br />
coastal and maritime related works, I draw your attention to<br />
painters Gary Cook and David Parfitt.<br />
Both Gary and David, manage to capture and convey an<br />
essence of the somewhat darker side of the natural landscape.<br />
Dense thicket, trunk and furrow darkly beckon the viewer to<br />
peer inside their beautiful and serious vistas.<br />
David’s traditionally fluid use of watercolour creates romantic<br />
and quietly dramatic, contemporary landscapes. Gary’s mixed<br />
media pieces exude a theatrical narrative, evoking memories of<br />
magical tales.<br />
Enjoy browsing and keep an eye out for that very special piece<br />
that just has to come home to you. Many galleries are currently<br />
offering free UK delivery.<br />
Online Collections, March- May<br />
Rye Art Gallery, 107 High Street, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7JE<br />
Tel: 01797 222433<br />
www.ryeartgallery.co.uk<br />
Online Collection<br />
Sea Pictures Gallery, Well House, Well Lane, Clare,<br />
Suffolk CO10 8NH<br />
Tel: 01787 279024<br />
www.seapicturesgallery.com<br />
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