July featured artist

Artist: Jennifer Matthews

Title: My Beautiful Tree
Medium:  Clear window glass, bitumen paint
Location: Chann & Naylor

Artist statement

My art practice has been informed by mu passion for the environment. I discovered a problem in my garden and had to dig up a tree root. It as so strong and healthy that l felt sorry for it and was inspired to make some art from it. I slumped clear window glass over a clay mould l had made from the root.

By the way my tree is still growing.

March featured artist

Artist: Jennifer Matthews

Title: Thirst
Medium:  Glass line paint, Glass vessels -Glue 

Location: Chann & Naylor

 "These glass vessels show the balance and fragility of nature: they mirror our reflections and our inner thoughts."I painted leafless trees onto glass bowls and wine glasses. I then kiln fired them to hopefully distort, some did others didn't just like nature.

Jennifer Matthews

 Title: “Inside Out ”

“Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language, not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book that is written in that tongue.”   Ralph Waldo Emmerson                                               

                                                     

Mediating the interaction of glass, bark and kiln became a successful methodology, resulting in many of these marks being interpreted as a unique language of nature.

                                          

  Jennifer Matthews