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HELEN BOOTH<br />
CLARE WALTERS<br />
17th April - 8th May 2021
Drift Ice (1) oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm £1400
Drift Ice (2) oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm £1400
Drift Ice (3) oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm £1400
Drift Ice (4) oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm £1400
Crest oil on canvas 25 x 30 cm £600
Large Vessel ash wood glaze <strong>and</strong> decorative slip 31 x 23 cm £390
Bowl ash wood glaze 15 x 32 cm £180
Bowl kohiki <strong>and</strong> wood ash glazes 10 x 22 cm £80 Bowl kohiki <strong>and</strong> wood ash glazes 10 x 22 cm £80
Soap Dishes various clays <strong>and</strong> glazes 2 x 11 cm (approx) £20
Pinch Pots various glazes £7 - 20
Pink Shadow oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm £1400
White Horizon oil on canvas 25 x 35 cm £600
Ice Path oil on canvas 130 x 130 cm £4250
Falling Snow oil on canvas 130 x 130 cm £4250
Morning Light oil on canvas 180 x 180 cm £6950
Winter Light oil on canvas 180 x 180 cm £6950
Vessels ash wood <strong>and</strong> transparent glazes 19 x 17 cm £75
Vessel ash wood glaze <strong>and</strong> slip decoration 13 x 14 cm £ 75
1 2<br />
3<br />
1 Facetted Stoneware Drinking Beakers various glazes <strong>and</strong> slip decoration 9 x 7 cm (approx) £30<br />
2 Stoneware Beakers various glazes <strong>and</strong> slip decoration 10 x 7 cm (approx) £30<br />
3 Raku Drinking Beakers various wood ash glazes <strong>and</strong> slip decoration 10 x 7 cm (approx) £35<br />
4 Stoneware Beakers various glazes <strong>and</strong> slip decoration 10 x 7 cm (approx) £30<br />
4
1 2<br />
3 4<br />
1 Drinking Bowls matt white glaze <strong>and</strong> kohiki slip 6 cm x 8 cm £35<br />
2 Small Bowls dolomite glaze <strong>and</strong> slip decoration 7 x 14 cm £45<br />
3 Small Bowls mixed wood ash glaze <strong>and</strong> kohiki slip 7 x 11 cm £40<br />
4 Stoneware Mugs transparent glaze over oxide slip decoration 8 x 8 cm £35
I Can Still Feel You oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm £4000
Covered Tracks oil on canvas 110 x 110 cm £3600
Horizon oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £2750
Moving Horizon oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £2750
Shimmer oil on canvas 92 x 122 cm £3600
Erased oil on canvas 35 x 25 cm £600
H<strong>and</strong> Built Vessel shell inlay with matt white glaze 22 x 28 cm £200
Stem Vase ash wood <strong>and</strong> transperent glazes 28 x 5 cm £45
Large Bowl nuka shiro glaze <strong>and</strong> slip decoration 16 x 30 cm £330
Pouring Bowls dolomite glaze <strong>and</strong> kohiki slip 7 x 13 cm £45
Snowfall Study oil on canvas 33 x 24 cm £600
Repetition Series (4) oil <strong>and</strong> gesso on ply panel 33 x 24 cm £900
Repetition Series (2) oil <strong>and</strong> gesso on ply panel 33 x 24 cm £900
Repetition Series (3) oil <strong>and</strong> gesso on ply panel 33 x 24 cm £900
Pink Fizz oil on canvas 140 x 140 cm £4250
Silence oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm £4000
Vessel dolomite glaze over oxide slip 21 x 14 cm £175
Vessel wood glaze <strong>and</strong> oxide slip 18 x 21 cm £190
1 2<br />
3<br />
Raku Espresso Cups various glazes <strong>and</strong> slips 8 x 7 cm (approx) £25
1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
1 Stoneware Plate transparent glaze over slip decoration 26 cm diameter £60<br />
2 Square Serving Platter ash wood glaze over slip decoration 22 x 26 cm £70<br />
3 Stoneware Charger transparent glaze over slip decoration 31 cm diameter £85<br />
4 Raku Decorative Plate nuka shiro glaze 20 cm £50<br />
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Dipped Drawing (5) oil, printing ink <strong>and</strong> household paint on 300g acid free Fabriano 31 x 22 cm £350
Dipped Drawing (14) oil, printing ink <strong>and</strong> household paint on 300g acid free Fabriano 31 x 22 cm £350
Dipped Drawing (3) oil, printing ink <strong>and</strong> household paint on 300g acid free Fabriano 31 x 22 cm £350
H<strong>and</strong> Built Vessel dolomite glaze 24cm x 16 cm £250
Oil Burners various glazes 5 x 7 cm (approx) £25
Pinch Pots various glazes £7 - 20
HELEN BOOTH<br />
I remember walking through one metre deep snow - the sound of my heavy body making a repetitive dull hum that was swallowed immediately by the<br />
quiet. Everywhere was white - I was surrounded by the most sublime vista. I couldn’t quite grasp what I was feeling. It felt like every atom was vibrating at<br />
the same frequency. I turned a corner <strong>and</strong> there she lay - Nature in all her divine glory - laid bare, menacing, beautiful <strong>and</strong> deadly present.<br />
Skaftafell Glacier - Artist in Residence - Icel<strong>and</strong> 2020<br />
My recent paintings concentrate on the limitless variations of the single dot <strong>and</strong> how the individual marks when placed side by side create a dialogue. Often<br />
the dots follow disjointed lines or they crowd together in amorphous blocks. Sometimes they are destroyed by gravity with dripped paints. The works<br />
explore both an impulsive <strong>and</strong> repetitive way of mark-making that is both gestural <strong>and</strong> meditative. Straight <strong>and</strong> dynamic lines often appear alongside the<br />
more gossamer transient dots in the paintings.<br />
The dot itself can be many things, a puncture wound, a beginning, an end, an existence, or a loss. It can be the end of a sentence or a punctuation in a<br />
l<strong>and</strong>scape. It can symbolise life <strong>and</strong> it can represent death – a full stop.<br />
When I paint, I try to balance action <strong>and</strong> inaction. Oil allows me to do this; each layer forcing a pause in the work’s construction. I pour <strong>and</strong> drag the paint<br />
across the surface - this juxtaposition of imposed structure <strong>and</strong> the loosely applied paint is an emotional response to the process of painting. My restrained<br />
palette creates work that focuses on the mark without the distraction of colour.<br />
This way of working, the duality of the interactions by myself as an artist, the h<strong>and</strong>s-off exchanges of the paint on a surface, the force of gravity <strong>and</strong> the<br />
element of chance are fundamental to my ideas. The internal alchemy, the human condition, of being <strong>and</strong> not being, of life <strong>and</strong> death, are what I am<br />
striving to capture within my work.<br />
Agnes Martin stated succinctly in her Beauty is a Mystery of Life lecture in 1989 that “it is commonly thought that everything that is, can be put into words.<br />
But there is a wide range of emotional responses that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that<br />
we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in artwork”.<br />
A recent Residency in Icel<strong>and</strong> has greatly informed by practice. St<strong>and</strong>ing in what can only be described as a Divine l<strong>and</strong>scape has reinforced my personal<br />
belief that Nature is the most powerful force <strong>and</strong> that trying to capture the essence of Nature in its purest form is what is important to me as an artist.<br />
The cycle of birth <strong>and</strong> rebirth, in life <strong>and</strong> in nature is key.<br />
The Fall oil on canvas 150 x 225 cm £8000
BIOGRAPHY<br />
<strong>Booth</strong> studied at Wimbledon School of Art, graduating in Fine<br />
Art Painting in 1989. In 2019 she received a Pollock Krasner Award from<br />
New York for her painting <strong>and</strong> also 1 of the 12 International Abstract<br />
Painting Awards from the Adolph <strong>and</strong> Esther Gottlieb Foundation in the<br />
USA. She is exhibited at various galleries throughout the UK <strong>and</strong> her<br />
work is held in several private collections around the world.<br />
SELECTED SOLO – 2/3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS<br />
2021 Konsthall Vasby – Sweden<br />
Circle Contemporary - Cornwall<br />
Recent Work - The Table Hay on Wye<br />
Solo Exhibition – Oriel Myrddin - Carmarthen<br />
2020 Solo Exhibition - &Gallery Edinburgh<br />
2019 Matter - Elysium Gallery Swansea<br />
Balance - The Table Gallery Hay Festival Hay on Wye<br />
2018 After Nature - Stiwdio 3 Cardigan<br />
2014 Synapse - Oriel Mwldan Cardigan<br />
Three - gallery/ten Cardiff<br />
2013 Drift - Duckett <strong>and</strong> Jeffries Malton Yorkshire<br />
2008 Tirliniau - Lantarnham Grange Arts Centre Cardiff<br />
L<strong>and</strong>scapes - Oriel Clwyd Art Centre Chester<br />
2007 L<strong>and</strong>scapes - Morgan Boyce Gallery Marlborough<br />
L<strong>and</strong>scapes - Oriel Mwldan Cardigan<br />
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS<br />
2021 4th Anniversary Exhibition - & Gallery- Edinburgh<br />
Tiny Yet Mighty - &gallery – Edinburgh<br />
Mixed Show - &Gallery - Edinburgh<br />
Abergavenny Art Shop <strong>and</strong> Chapel - Abergavenny<br />
Winter Abstract - Silson Contemporary - Harrowgate<br />
Wilson Stephens <strong>and</strong> Jones - London<br />
Wilson Stephens <strong>and</strong> Jones - London<br />
Exhibition Showcase - The Walnut Tree/Abergavenny Art Shop<br />
2020 Mixed Show - &Gallery - Edinburgh<br />
Time - No Format Gallery - London<br />
The Table - Oriel Myrddin - Carmarthen<br />
BEEP Painting Prize - SHIFT - Cardiff<br />
Summer Exibition - gallery ten - Cardiff<br />
Summer Exhibition - Silson Contemporary - Harrogate<br />
Irving Gallery - Oxford<br />
Winter Exhibition - Silson Contemporary - Harrogate<br />
2019 Holly Hunt Gallery -Miami Arts Week Miami USA<br />
Winter Exhibition - &Gallery Edinburgh<br />
Autumn Exhibition - Silson Contemporary Harrogate<br />
Summer/ Haf - gallery/ten - Cardiff<br />
Spring Exhibition - Silson Contemporary<br />
Approaches - Mayfair Art Weekend - D Contemporary Mayfair London<br />
Twist Group Exhibition - Northwall Arts Centre Oxford<br />
Winter Exhibition - Silson Contemporary Harrogate<br />
2018 Glimpses of Magic - Abergavenny Art Gallery Abergavenny<br />
Group Silson Contemporary - Harrogate<br />
Summer Exhibition Gallery Ten - Cardiff<br />
Roger Cecil + Four Painters - Oriel Myrddin Carmarthen<br />
2017 Winter - Gallery Ten Cardiff<br />
Summer - Gallery Ten Cardiff<br />
2016 Spring - Gallery Ten Cardiff<br />
Back Wall - Oriel Myrddin Carmarthen<br />
2015 Summer - Gallery Ten Cardiff<br />
Drawing - Oriel Myrddin Carmarthen<br />
Alternatives Are Seldom Found - Arusha Gallery Edinburgh<br />
Winter Exhibition - Art Shop Abergavenny<br />
2014 New Year Exhibition - Cadogan Contemporary London<br />
Winter - Gallery Ten Cardiff<br />
Four - Quercus Gallery Bath<br />
2013 Gleam - Quercus Gallery Bath<br />
Thomas <strong>and</strong> Paul AAF Hamburg Germany
PUBLICATIONS<br />
Abstraction - Thomas <strong>and</strong> Paul London<br />
Prelude - Thomas <strong>and</strong> Paul, London<br />
Gathered – Gathered Gallery Brooklyn New York<br />
Matter Lumina - Milkwood Gallery Cardiff<br />
2012 Memories, You’re Talking About Memories - Blinc Wales<br />
Strings - Installation Blinc Wales<br />
Matter Lumina - King Gallery Carmarthen<br />
Works On Paper - Cadogan Contemporary London<br />
Marks of Intent- The Art Shop Abergavenny<br />
PRIZES<br />
2018 Welsh Based Artist Prize - Friends of the Glynn Vivian Gallery<br />
BEEP International Painting Biennial Swansea<br />
2012 Threadneedle Art Prize The Mall Galleries, London<br />
2021 It’s a Passion Thing. 6 Page Artist Interview. April 2021<br />
Abstraction by Jenny White - Western Mail (03/21)<br />
Artist Interview – Ivanna De La Rosa Chapter 89 Arts Magazine (02/21)<br />
2020 Selected Works by Richard Unwin - The Net Gallery Publication (09/20)<br />
Art & Presence – Interview (08/20)<br />
3 Painters to Watch - Visionary Project NYC (08/20)<br />
Tous Magazine. Interview by Holly Newgate (06/20)<br />
House <strong>and</strong> Garden. Artist Support Pledge Highlight (06/20)<br />
Coeur Et Art. Interview by Alex<strong>and</strong>ra Etienne (03/20)<br />
2019 The Weekend, Western Mail. Editorial - Jenny White (12/19)<br />
Murze Magazine. Minimalism Issue (12/19)<br />
Western Mail Elysium Exhibition Review - Jenny White (07/19)<br />
Glynn Vivian Magazine. Glynn Vivian Interview - Alice McKenna Jones (05/19)<br />
AWARDS<br />
2020 Arts Council Wales - WAI Travel Award for Icel<strong>and</strong>ic Residency<br />
2019 Painting Award from Adolph <strong>and</strong> Esther Gottlieb Foundation NYC<br />
Award for Painting Pollock Krasner Foundation Inc. New York<br />
2014 Award for Painting Pollock Krasner Foundation Inc. New York<br />
2011 Arts Council R&D Award Welsh Arts Council<br />
2009 Oppenheim John Downes Award for Painting<br />
2007 Oppenheim John Downes Award for Painting<br />
2006 Arts Council Personal Development Grant, Out in the L<strong>and</strong>scape<br />
RESIDENCIES<br />
2020 Hafnarborg Residency Icel<strong>and</strong>
CLARE WALTERS<br />
<strong>Clare</strong> trained in Fine Art at Cardiff University between 1991-1994 <strong>and</strong> in her final year she was fortunate<br />
enough to be tutored by the renowned artist Cornelia Parker before graduating in Sculpture.<br />
Despite a long pause between finishing her degree <strong>and</strong> establishing her own ceramics studio last<br />
year the themes that interest her have remained constant; a celebration of raw materials <strong>and</strong> the<br />
way in which they transform <strong>and</strong> interact on each other. It is this effect of the behaviour of one<br />
material when exposed or joined to another that she is constantly excited by. The inside of a kiln<br />
is the perfect environment for something unexpected <strong>and</strong> if lucky, beautiful, to occur.<br />
<strong>Clare</strong> feels her role as an artist is to assist but not completely control the creative process. When<br />
making a piece of work she feels it is necessary to be in a present state of mind to be able to find<br />
the balance between what the clay wants to be <strong>and</strong> her idea of what it should be. Every piece of<br />
work reflects that conversation.<br />
It’s what we find ourselves doing not our ideas of what we should be doing that make us who<br />
we are, unintentionally or not, creative acts are biographical.
To purchase work please contact Val Harris at art@thetablehay.com or 07956 452195<br />
The gallery offers Collectorplan, an initiative administered by the Welsh Assembly, enabling you to purchase work up to the<br />
value of £5,000 with an interest free loan repayable over a year. In addition we now offer Own Art & Take it away with<br />
interest free loans up to £25,000 repayable over ten months.<br />
The gallery is open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 3pm or by appointment during exhibitions.<br />
All works are for sale upon receipt of this catalogue.
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