This viewing room presentation brings together the work of Norfolk based landscape painter Will Cutts and ceramicist Cecilia Willis.
Will Cutts' depictions of Norfolk and Suffolk landscapes capture the hidden byways and open views painted plein-air in an open, fluid, contemporary way, in traditional oils or watercolour. He paints on board or canvas. Will's work reminds us that the patterns and abstracted consequences of highly mechanised farming impact the visual experience we have of our rural surroundings in the UK. While achieving visual harmony in his image making, his viewpoints are carefully selected to give viewers a sense of familiarity, while showing us something new about these ancient roads, hedgerows, open fields and woodlands.
Having achieved a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art, Will moved to London in 1986 and has divided his time between working with artists and galleries, as well as on his own work.
He has followed the work of influential Californian landscape painter Richard Diebenkorn for many years, as well as the more noted masters of the English landscape, like John Constable. Will has exhibited his work with the Royal Society of British Artists at The Mall Gallery and The Millinery Works Gallery in London, as well as numerous group exhibitions in London and the East of England.
Cecilia Willis has a background in interior decorating, working in a quintessentially English Country House style, a move to live in Japan for a few years proved to be a revelation for Cecilia. Her beautifully balanced ceramics marry the best of both worlds.
Twenty years in Asia has given Cecilia a profound appreciation of a Japanese aesthetic and this together with her decorators eye has influenced her creative work ever since. Cecilia has a need to make; from jewellery she turned to clay and has been throwing at the wheel for 17 years. Returning to England in 2014 she set up her studio in Norfolk.
Cecilia loves the generosity of the bowl form, seeking a simplicity and elegance of shape and striving to create glazes of luminous colour and depth for her pieces. Her bowls and dishes are intended as much for the decoration of a space as for the serving of food. Exploring the moon jar form, looking for the rightness of brush mark decoration and achieving a particular colour of glaze are all part of the excitement as the work evolves. Cecilia uses a fine white stoneware fired in an electric kiln.
OPENING TIMES
WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY: 11am to 4pm
SATURDAY: 11am to 2pm
OR BY APPOINTMENT AT OTHER TIMES.
