Earth
Paintings by Day Bowman
Trained at Chelsea School of Art and Design, Day Bowman has been painting for more than 30 years during which she has created her own alphabet of mark-making and a distinctive language of painting. Beautifully executed, Day combines the fine art of drawing with that of painting, layering circles and motifs in conté and charcoal over rhomboids in oil. Although abstract expression has often been perceived to be the male domain, Day’s paintings are truly powerful. She does not shy away from global concerns, articulating a strong interest in geopolitics. Migration, shipping, energy production, sustainability and climate change are the issues that drive her work. In essence, there is an alchemy of energy within her paintings that is both invigorating and emotionally charged - abstraction at its most exciting.
Fresh from the studio, Marking Out The Boundaries refers to the controlled burning of moorland to inhibit wildfires that dazzled Day as a child. This series of paintings captures the texture and colours of the moors with strong lines demarcating zones to be burnt where rust-coloured earth, hot flames and the black of charred stubble are set against sky blues.
Angels
Paintings and Drawings by Gerry Judah
Gerry Judah trained at Goldsmiths’ graduating with an MA from The Slade.
Primary years lived in India before moving to London in the 1960s have had a lifelong impact on his perception of the world. The ornate architecture and rituals of temples, mosques, and synagogues infuse his work. Crusaders I, II & III are on permanent exhibition at St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Imperial War Museum of the North. Selected as one of the Best of Young British Sculptors at Whitechapel Gallery, Judah stepped across into Production Design, where he created sets for film, opera, and dance for more than twenty years. He has worked with Tarkovsky, David Bailey, and Ridley Scott, and continues to create the signature sculpture for Goodwood’s annual Festival of Speed.
Faith and conflict have been at the heart of Judah’s work since his return to Fine Art fifteen years ago. His 3D white-on-white Angels, which document the devastation of war and the ravages to the Earth of climate change, have been shown internationally in museums and galleries with paintings and sculpture placed in public and private collections worldwide.
Curated by Jenny Blyth.