Carl Arroyo & Barry Stedman

CARL ARROYO
& BARRY STEDMAN
4th – 27th August 2022

Wanna
gouache,
mixed media on paper
30 x 29cm
£500

Emblematic
gouache on paper
29 x 29cm
£500

Closure
gouache
on paper
35 x 29cm
£500

Loop:
Sort of Association
gouache on paper
28 x 28cm
£500

Hideous
mixed media
on board
60 x 174cm
£1800

Psychosomatic
mixed media
on board
80 x 80cm
£1300

La
mixed media
on board
70 x 70cm
£1200

No Show
mixed media
on board
70 x 70cm
£1200

Stolen from the bookshop
mixed media
on board
92 x 92cm*
£1400

Hole in the Word
mixed media on board
120 x 60cm*
£1300

Modern Bomb
mixed media
on board
80 x 80cm
£1300

Don't Care
mixed media
on board
70 x 70cm
£1200

Open
mixed media
on board
70 x 70cm
£1200

Pink Psychology
mixed media
on board
74 x 80cm*
£1200

Pretty Painting
mixed media
on board
95 x 60cm*
£1200

Tuvi
mixed media
on board
80 x 80cm
£1300

CO
mixed media
on board
60 x 52cm*
£800

Undeliverable Pain
mixed media
on canvas
60 x 60cm
£1100

Carl Arroyo
‘Suddenly everything feels intensely strange as the past and present slip into a
space where memory and consciousness, certainty and uncertainty, isolation and
connection shift to form something new without signifiable meaning but emotion,
emotion impelling gesture.’
Despite my painting’s disorderly scattering of marks, doodles, motifs, half
legible cryptic references, and asemic text, (writing without alphabet) they
are a coherent collection of exuberantly executed work that explores the
interaction of texture, composition, form and palette. When painting I
embrace a form of 'optimistic uncertainty' which helps to generate work that
is emotionally expressive, playful, bold and energetic.
The paintings are paradoxical in nature, uncompromising yet approachable,
vibrant yet dark, and sincere yet flippant. The work incorporates heavily
patinated, mixed-media imagery created through a process involving the
application of layers of overpainting, collage and expressively scrawled and
scratched marks.
Being the son of a Spanish Civil War refugee my evolution as an artist draws
on my radical Spanish heritage and the influence of post Spanish Civil
War artists, including Antoni Tapies and the lesser known, but influential,
‘El Paso’ (The Step) group. I also draw inspiration from the ‘Situationists’
provoked punk and post punk ethic of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, whose
counter cultural movement inspired a broader grassroots creativity opposed
to the nightmare of consumerist excess and passivity.

Education
1985 - 1989 Bradford Art College - BA Art and Design.
2005 - 2008 Derby University - MA Art Therapy.
In 1989 Carl Arroyo completed his degree in Art & Design at
Bradford Art College and then went onto establish himself as
a ceramicist with workshops in the Wye Valley. In 2004 Carl
began painting and when he isn't painting he practices as an Art
Psychotherapist.
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2021 The MADE Gallery, Cardiff.
2019 The Drawing Room Gallery, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire.
2017 The Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
2017 The Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport.
2015 The Catto Gallery, London.
2015 The Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
2014 The Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London.
2014 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
2014 The Shellhouse Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire.
2014 108 Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
2013 Star Anise Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
2013 The Shellhouse Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire.
2012 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
2011 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
2010 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
2009 Featherstone Fine Art, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire.
2008 Derby University, Derbyshire.
2007 Derby University, Derbyshire.
2005 The Hat Shop, Presteigne, Powys.
2004 The Grange, Market Drayton, Shropshire.
2004 Gallery 54, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
2004 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.

Slab vessel
with orange over dark blue
17 x 14 x 6cm
SOLD

Thrown altered vessel
with greens and red
14 x 15cm
SOLD

Thrown altered vessel
with blue
18 x 19 x 9cm
SOLD

Thrown altered vessel
with yellow over blue
18 x 16 x 8cm
SOLD

Slab vessel
with yellow
18 x 19 x 5cm
£320

Thrown altered vessel
with green and red
14 x 15cm
£240

Thrown altered vessel
with green and red
16 x 18cm
£260

Platter
with red, blue and pink
33cm across
£250

Barry Stedman
Barry Stedman (b.1965, Watford) is a ceramic artist whose colourful, dynamic
forms come out of a deep connection to the landscape. All the work, developed
in series, is rooted in the directness and urgency of drawing outside; responding
to the weather, drama and life which surrounds his garden studio by the
river Flit in Bedfordshire. Starting on the wheel or constructed in slabs, the
earthenware vessels are cut open and altered, scored and handled, before being
glazed with layers of oxide, slip and washes of vivid colour. The vessels are
then offered to the kiln, sometimes in multiple firings, in an open dialogue of
transformation; infused with the marks, rhythm and energy of their making.
Stedman came to ceramics after a career in retail when he was seduced by the
possibilities of clay to express abstract ideas of colour and form.
He completed a Ceramics degree at the University of Westminster in 2009 where
he received the Caparo Award, joining Edmund de Waal’s studio that same year.
His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and galleries across the UK
and internationally.

Vocal Testament
mixed media
on board
92 x 122cm*
£1600
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enabling you to purchase work up to the value of £5,000 with an interest free loan repayable over a year.
All measurements are for framed sizes unless marked * where the paintings are unframed.
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All paintings are for sale upon receipt of this catalogue.