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Plants were the focus of Helen Simpson’s Traveller’s Poise, a collection of pastels<br />
and oils of flowers. Not a botanical illustrator, she draws flowers much larger than<br />
life, but deliberately does not include whole plants in her highly colourful pictures:<br />
instead, to use her own words, her work is about recognition and realising a mystery.<br />
During the exhibition, the artist also ran a pastels day workshop.<br />
Bold use of colour is also typical of Anna Freeman-Bentley’s work. Her exhibition<br />
Chapters depicted disconnected or overlooked interiors as well as reflective and<br />
mirrored spaces. Inspired by real spaces, these fabricated environments explored<br />
the emotive potential of space and its associations by extending the bounds of<br />
architectural possibility.<br />
Borderland, an impressive series of abstract works by Arabella Hope, was the final<br />
exhibition of Hilary Term. They were created by this young Scottish artist during<br />
her Magdalen Road Studios Residency in 2016, who dramatically but effortlessly<br />
crossed the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and achieved a series of bold,<br />
three-dimensional works that both intrigued and delighted the eye. This Residency is<br />
sponsored by the Arts Society and developed in partnership with the Magdalen Road<br />
Studios, to provide support for young and emerging artists.<br />
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Photo by Katie Taylor
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