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Glen Heath
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website: www.glenheath.co.uk
member of: Leicester Society of Artists Leicestershire Pastel Society Leicester Sketch Club BA Fine Art Loughborough University, MA Fine Art University of Central England |
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I work in a variety of media including watercolour, pastels, oils and mixed media. My work is in series and focuses on areas of Leicestershire such as the Market Place, Flower Shop, Theatres, Festivals and Bradgate Park. My paintings connect with this familiarity as a recorded experience exposing anthropomorphic imagery or through the realms of fantasy, often using clown images as surrogate figures of depiction. It may be a tree, a flower, a place, a person or even a poem – each has a story to tell. Guernsey, which I visit most years is another place with deep meaning to me. Replenishing and restoring a mental and physical energy. The landscape paintings and small clay reliefs that I create are a direct response to my experience on this island. Rags to Riches: My current series reflect the interest that I have always had in markets and rummage sales. In response to a title 'Rags to Riches', a group project, charity shops play a major part in these still-life paintings retaining narrative and figurative roles. Squidgy toys, figurines, brazen flowers and the odd nude painting come alive amidst lolling bedspreads and peacock shutters to reveal 'The Real Charity Shop'. |
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