Interpretations 3

Sarah Harcus, Sam Gingell and Maggie Smith present their fifth group exhibition at Harbour House, making personal interpretations of the local landscape in painting, printmaking, pastels and mixed media. The artists enjoy working on individual projects, before coming together to explore a local place of interest and to make personal repsonses. This year their collective focus has been on Stover Park.

There will be an informal gallery talk with the artists on Saturday 5 September at midday. There's no need to book - just turn up.

Maggie Smith is inspired by the marshland and the bird life at Stover, and is working on a large drypoint as well as monotypes inspired by the ripples and light on the expansive lake. She will also show large mixed media paintings inspired by her walks by the sea in south Devon.
Maggie exhibits regularly with Press Gang Printmakers and the South Hams Arts Forum, as well as opening her own studio for visitors. Her work can also be seen in galleries locally and in Dorset and Bedfordshire.

Sam Gingell creates semi-abstract paintings inspired by the Devon landscape. At Stover Park she is particularly drawn to the woodland areas and to the grassland surrounding the lake, noticing how the colours and light change with the seasons and are reflected in the tranquil waters. Sam works primarily in inks and acrylics, sometimes adding texture medium and oils using rags and palette knives in preference to brushes.
Sam has painted and exhibited with the Foxhole Painters at Dartington and at Birdwood House in Totnes.

Sarah Harcus responds to her surroundings in south Devon:
“Mainly landscape and seascape: the timelessness and rhythms which they provide and the effect which light has on the contours and patterns of land and water. Trees are a particular magnet for me, especially those which are bent by the prevailing winds. In the last few years I have become engrossed with pastels (both oil and soft) and the wonderful possibilities they give for immediacy and expression. This translates onto paper in a way which I find very exciting and which, for me, cannot be achieved in any other medium. Blackdown Rings nearby has been the catalyst and, along with the coastline and Avon estuary where I live, are constant sources of inspiration.”

www.maggiesmithartist.co.uk
www.samgingell.co.uk
www.sarahharcus.co.uk

For more information visit http://www.harbourhouse.org.uk/gallery-interpretations315.html