Our perception of light and colour are being played with by these artists - Stewart Hearn's blown glass works refract and cast coloured light around the room while Lorraine Bewick's paintings capture the liminal space between expansive skies and watery coastal landscapes surrounding her.
Based in North Norfolk Lorraine Bewick's tread a path mapped out by acknowledged masters of the genre, such as John Robert Cozens and JMW Turner. Having embarked upon her project of painting the tangible, Lorraine Bewick’s considerable skill is interpreting the indescribable aspects of a more measurable topology. Boundaries are moved, scale and distance shift in her hands, as she conjures up fine veils of light passing between horizon and foreground. Paint is made substance, while calibrating the troposphere and navigating thresholds between sky, land and sea.
Using aerial viewpoints of the the coastline has given her the opportunity to play with pattern and shapes made by tidal flow and erosion. Lorraine strives to capture that notion of constant change.
Lorraine’s work has been exhibited in London, Edinburgh and Eastern Anglian region. A number of her pieces are held in private collections.
Stewart Hearn's work demands high standards of design and exacting technical knowledge. Using traditional skills he interprets his contemporary visions and exhibits in many contexts and countries.
His inspiration comes from the constantly changing hues in the Fenland landscape where he lives and has a studio. This attention to colour, forms an integral part of his work. He demonstrates powerful and nuanced insights in his colour decisions, combined with seemingly understated forms requiring great craftsmanship and risk taking.
His preoccupation with the essential properties of glass; using weight, clarity, surface manipulation and the heat from the furnace, to combine and encourage optical and physical distortion in his forms, exemplify his years of glassmaking and focus. Ultimately it is very important to him that he celebrates the value of traditional glassmaking skills and creates quality glass, knowledge that he readily passes on to his assistants.
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