LIFE AS WE SEE IT - IN THE CENTRE OF ROSS-ON-WYE
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For the first time ever an exhibition of portraits and paintings of the human form will be on show at Made in Ross in the Market House, Ross-on-Wye starting next Sunday alongside the beautiful and varied work of the Made in Ross artist’s cooperative.

The exhibition will showcase work by members of a Life Class tutored by Angela Palmer at Brockweir in the Wye Valley. The show is entitled “Life As We See It” and has been held annually for the past 20 years in various venues, most recently Taurus Crafts in Lydney.
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This talented group of artists enjoy working by observation directly from a life model. The challenge which this presents makes this possibly the most difficult one an artist can attempt, but it can also be the most rewarding as something of the humanity and character of the sitter gives the work an   energy sometimes lacking in paintings done from photographs.

The artists use many different media to portray the human figure with techniques including painting in oils,  impressionistic mixed media work and exquisite pencil drawing.

​There will also be some sculpture on show made by clay modelling from life, in short something for everyone.

Janice made her first quilt [4” squares on point] in 1968 in California USA but not because of Amercian influences: she states..."I was using up left-over dress-making materials!"
 
The seed was sown, and in the 1980s, whilst living in North Devon, she attended a 6 week patchwork course, making a sampler quilt.  After another time gap, Janice found herself living in Herefordshire and belonging to Archenfield Quilters. From this point forwards her experience and expertise have developed. 

She enjoys hand quilting and rarely machine quilts. 
More recently she has learnt to spin and weave and plans to develop these skills further.

He says of himself.....I've been a photographer, artist, designer and publisher for more than fifty years and I feel very privileged to have been given numerous opportunities to express my instinctive creativity with a camera, digital imagery, paint, crayons, pens or whatever came to hand.  

​Throughout the years, particularly during my time as a photo correspondent, occasionally working in some of the less desirable places of the world, I discovered the importance of looking beyond the ordinary that most people take for granted. It offered a chance for me to open my eyes. ​

​I draw inspiration from 19th and 20th century artists....Impressionism to postmodernism with a special fascination for W.M.Turner, the early Impressionists as well as the Pre Raphaelites.

In particular, I admire photographers such as Steve McCurry, Richard Avedon, Don McCullin, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and Annie Leibovitz and more recently, those photographers who have turned towards digital Art and digital painting such as Christopher Gilbert, Ricardo Bagnoli and Erik Almás.                                                             

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