mary gundry

EXHIBITION

Title: COASTAL CAPTURE

Paintings by Mary Gundry & Graham Rider

Ceramics by Sue Eyre

Race to the shore. mary gundry

Mary Gundry

I find it difficult to talk about what motivates me to pick up a brush or a pencil - it's a kneejerk response usually - perhaps to the way the light is falling on the sea, or the way two figures walk hand in hand, or how a swimmer emerges from the sea. I don't know what I'm going to paint until I see it in front of me and then I face the challenge of expressing what I've seen with the emotion that I felt at the time. I have been using my imagination more recently creating midnight scenes of fishermen which are more about colour and light than the subjects themselves. A different and exciting direction for me.

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golden hour Graham Rider

Graham Rider

Graham is primarily a landscape painter with a particular focus on the hinterland between land and sea. Increasingly he has become more interested in the inhabitants of the shoreline and the restlessness of the scene, the rise and fall of the tide, the flights of the birds and their patterns of flight. The whole scene with its energy and enduring shift between permanence and temporary patterns and structures. Necessarily the technique he uses is looser, more impressionistic, his sources more eclectic, the method of planning and composition build up more layered. Over the years Graham has completed various commissions such as a tryptch of Liverpool St. station for Railtrack now in the National Railways Museum, he has works in public and corporate collections as well as in private collections including the Duke of Bedford.

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eric and edna - wild swimmers sue eyre

Sue Eyre

Sue is a ceramicist living in Clare, the smallest town in Suffolk. She hand builds her quirky and colourful ceramics in her garden studio, complete with woodburning stove to keep her toasty warm through the winter. Sue took up pottery in 2017 after several years of watercolour and acrylic painting, and was immediately drawn to the limitless possibilities of clay. She loves colour and her ceramics are extremely vibrant and full of humour. Sue exhibits and sells her work in several shops and galleries throughout East Anglia, particularly on the North Norfolk coast. Together with a fellow potter,she organises Clay in Clare each September, a very successful selling exhibition involving numerous ceramicists. She is a member of Anglian Potters and is part of their Social Media team. Sue confesses to having a lifelong crush on Bob Mortimer and is the proudowner of a very lively cocker spaniel called ….Mortimer!

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