Manx based artists, Colette Gambell, Kate Jerry and Shelby Sandyford-Sykes come together, through art and friendship to exhibit their work at the Isle Gallery, Tynwald Mills at the end of October 2013.
The exhibition is a mixture or paintings, printmaking and sculptural metal work. Each artist explores different subject matter and material to combine their ideas into one spectacular art show.
Colette Gambell uses a material's properties to create something different, special and unique. Colette uses Porcelain, Paper, Light, Shadow, Watercolours, Oil paints, Printmaking, Photography and Digital media!
Inspired by the sea, which fuels most of Colette’s work she loves to delve into other areas such as human interaction and emotive understanding. It provides a gateway to another world. Linking art & empathy, creating conditions in which a feeling can be recreated, if by touch, immersion or connection, creating fine art.
Most of Colette’s work demonstrates a fragility of sorts, pushing boundaries to the edge of limitation. Reflecting on her work, she states that, “my work invites resonance with a memory or something deep rooted which is embodied in the viewer.”
Kate Jerry is a painter and print maker (mixed media artist) working with a mix of subject matter. Kate’s art career began with still life and then having graduated from landscape, began working through a catalogue of ideas from the imagination. Kate is currently inspired by an eclectic mix of contemporary artists whose work is strong in design and pattern making, and a mix of subject either emblematic or found in nature. Kate works in an accidental manor with one idea generating another.
“I often begin my work with an idea, drawing or a design and then end up with something completely unexpected”.
Kate is currently working within the medium of printmaking and the exhibition will feature a mixture of painting and hand printed techniques.
Shelby Sandyford-Sykes connects with the objects she wishes to turn into art, feelings of an image are transferred from an inner gut feeling.
Shelby’s art is often created through the re-imagining of ordinary metal items we use in our everyday lives. Shelby explains,
“metal in it’s quiet state has a meaning to me ‘serenity : Calmness, tranquility, peace, stillness, coolness and composure.’
Natural surroundings are Shelby’s obvious influences. She will install 3 sculpted car bonnets in the exhibition,
“I enjoy the serendipitous journey which my metal canvases take me on. When I work with metal it becomes obstreperous, loud, hot, obnoxious, jumping out of the car lot closet, it becomes a piece of art with a beauty of its own....a new identity is born. Each car bonnet dictates the form of the art I make.”
This is a unique opportunity to view the three artists work together, and perhaps invest in a unique, original or limited artwork. The exhibition will be open to the public from October 30th and the official launch will take place at the Isle Gallery, where Colette, Kate and Shelby will hold a ‘Meet the Artist’ session on Saturday November 2nd 2013 from 2 - 5pm.
