SUNSET GLOW
Evi Hatzi
Fri 5 Jan – Sat 24 Jan
Coffee Bar Gallery

A bold exploration of the feelings evoked by the intricate glow of sunsets using acrylics and oils in vibrant colours.

MORE THAN A PROLOGUE: HEATHER HUNTER BOOKS
Heather Hunter
Thu 12 Feb – Sun 1 Mar
Main Gallery

Heather makes unique Artists’ books. She writes all her own text, she produces all her own images and she constructs her own bindings. Her strongest work is 3 dimensional. The constantly visual and tactile surprises that 3D structures produce have made book forms a natural progression from her first work in Fashion, Toy Design and Model making. The versatility of paper allied to digital print work, printmaking and various binding methods all result in the book forms that she has produced to date.

Inspiration comes from everywhere and at any time. Turn End gardens are an inspiration all year round and she has explored lace as poetry and rhythm after having helped with a display of lace items at Thame Museum. She has also ventured into altering books: Although reluctant at first, research introduced her to writers that have had conversations with the text of another in the book margins and she has been respectfully altering books due for land fill ever since.

THE REALM OF THE SUBCONCIOUS
Joanna Beck
Mon 2 Mar – Fri 13 Mar
Coffee Bar Gallery

Joanna creates her paintings predominantly from imagination, reflecting the themes of mental health, emotion, the subconscious and myth.

Her work is intensely personal and she has spent the best part of 14 years crafting her style to reflect the themes she is passionate about expressing. She prefers to create from memory and imagination as she finds it cathartic and it sparks her creativity within the themes in which she works.

She has previously exhibited in the Queens Park centre, as well as at Obsidian Art and in a few galleries in London.

GLORIOUS MUD
Deborah de Beer
Sat 7 Mar – Fri 27 Mar
Main Gallery

The impulse for this body of work is the idea of dialogues, or conversations; with the works of friends that I cherish, the iconic works that have influenced me over time, the materials I have
come across, or even simple objects/moments that captivate me; a beautiful cup for example. The evolution of ideas may take me through different media, both 2 and 3 dimensional, thus creating a body of work that is linked, but not necessarily by the materials I use. The title of the exhibition refers not only to the wonderful material clay but also to the ecstatic wallowing of the hippopotamus (in the song)…being an artist is, for me, like wallowing in life.

Originally trained in ceramics, Deborah has always worked in other media too. Ideas may take a long time to lodge in her head and heart, but her making process can be fast, impulsive and intuitive, or painstaking, depending on the ideas and materials involved. She finds herself equally moved to make functional pieces that may find a cherished place in someone’s daily life, and work that is purely an expression of ideas and aesthetic sensibilities. Although she starts with am impulse of some sort, she rarely has a fixed idea of what the finished piece will look like; her making process is an interactive dance with her materials, constraints and dreams.