SARA MOORHOUSE
ONE YEAR ON
New paintings by Kathryn Stevens
Ceramics by Sara Moorhouse & Maria Wojdat
14th June - 2nd August 2014
Lane House Arts Gallery, Bath
The development of my work into ceramics, colour and spatial perception began with a Masters degree at Cardiff in 2003. The work explores the ways in which spaces within landscape appear altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather, time and farming. The bowls act as a canvas for paintings that distil specific landscape scenes, perceptibly altering the size, depth and shape of the form by the applied colour. The forms can be made to seem wider or narrower, deeper or shallower, heavier or lighter, or they may appear to undulate, bend, move or hover by the juxtaposition of finer lines. I tested out ideas on the three-dimensional conical form.
I found that colours behave differently when viewed across three-dimensional space than on a two-dimensional surface, particularly on the inner bowl form where illusions can appear much stronger. The illusory spatial colour phenomena were then used on forms to suggest specific landscape scenes. The research has enabled me to develop a vocabulary of spatial colour knowledge specific to the three-dimensional bowl form, in which I have learnt to manipulate and articulate three-dimensional space to a much greater effect. I am now integrating the findings from my PhD with colourways and arrangements from my previous practice.
New gallery artist Sara Moorhouse explores the ways in which spaces within landscape appear altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather farming and time. Her hand thrown bowls act as a canvas for paintings that distil specific landscape scenes, perceptibly altering the size, depth and shape of the form by the applied colour. Sara lives and works in Cardiff.
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