Synergy, coming to the St Ives Society of Artists’ Crypt Gallery, is a joint exhibition of abstract painting, collage, fibre art, print, books, and sculptural forms by local artist Sally MacCabe and Bristol-based Liz Hewitt.
Work by Sally MacCabe (above) and Liz Hewitt (below)
In the show, which runs from 15th to 20th June, they celebrate each other’s uniqueness, while illustrating their combined love of texture, colour, and form.
Sally is widely known for here mixed media work in a signature palette of subtle blues. This exhibition has provided an opportunity for her to create a new body of work, which is separate from the collection on display at Whites Old Workshops, in St Ives.
These new abstract paintings, 3D assemblages, and book sculptures embrace the beauty and fascination she has in texture and found objects. Having amassed a huge treasure trove of materials over the years, Sally finds it a constant source of creative inspiration, combining rusty objects picked up on walks, natural seeds, and beach finds, with vintage documents, Japanese texts, personal letters and ephemera from various eras, together with textured papers and fabrics. Combined with heavily applied acrylics, hand stitching, and painted fabrics, Sally creates rich, multi-layered surfaces that intrigue.
Liz is a well-known mixed media and fibre artist who uses ecologically sustainable processes to colour and mark artisan-made cloth, paper, and fibres to create collages, abstract paintings,cloth wall hangings, assemblages, books, fibre, and paper vessels. A sense of place is central to her work. Walks along the beaches and coast paths, collecting shells, driftwood, and other treasures from the strandline, are all memories recorded as impressions of the coastal landscape Liz observes.
The rhythm of stitches in her cloths mimics the ebb and flow of the tide against the shoreline and is used by Liz toexpress the essence of calmness felt as she sits in and walks the landscape, documenting the effects of time and the elements on the natural and man-made objects within the Cornish coastal landscape.
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