WavyBlue - Spaces

An exhibition by two members of the Dorset-based artist group Wavy Blue

Amanda Makepeace is an American, self-taught artist now a permanent resident in Dorset. She is a varied artist, preferring not to hold her painting to one style or technique. Current works employ a combination of bold colour and stark textural contrasts to achieve an emotional response. The relationship between emotion and painting is an important theme in all of Amanda's works, as can be seen from the titles of her paintings. Please visit www.amandamakepeace.co.uk for more about Amanda and her art.

Diane Roberts describes the intuitive process involved in abstraction. As a painter she creates sensuous surfaces with paint and wax into which she draws or scratches, articulating shapes or marking out the textures that correspond with what she holds in her mind's eye. Often she lets an idea make its own way, for she is fascinated by the unpredictability of paint, and the pure magic of creating an illusion. Each work is allowed its individual identity with a sensibility of its own.
For her, a painting is an object of physical beauty. Perhaps this is why there is often a sculptural aspect to the work, as in Creation 1. The very small drawings have the delicacy and timeless quality of Indian Miniatures, translated into a contemporary context through different materials. Spiral Creation hint at exotic climes - Crete and the West Indies - where Diane travels. But in the end all her work emerges in the magical domain of the studio.

Please visit www.dianeroberts.co.uk for more information.

Spiral by Diane Roberts

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