the latest from the Jersey art community

Artist Sara Job was invited by the The Arts in Health Care Trust to be Artist in Residence for six months. Based at The Hollies Day Care Centre Sara interacted with the clients which formed the inspiration for her exhibition.

Sara describes her experience as having 3 phases. Firstly she established her identity as a visiting artist and got to know the clients through a series of life drawings. “I was delighted with the positive response from the clients both to the drawings themselves and to the experience of sitting as a model and benefitting from the one-to-one interaction this provided.”

The second phase looked at issues of anxiety through making Guatemalan Worry Dolls believed to take away troubles that are shared with them. Clients made their own worry dolls which Sara used as inspriration for her series of drawings and paintings.
" Often the loss of independence and control in our latter years brings an acute sense of anxiety which can at times...

From an early age Stephen was fascinated by aeroplanes and flight. Taking imagery from photos and magazines he adapts these ideas to become his own. Using pencils he creates intricate images which have an almost photogenic feel to them. His influences incluse the Airfix artworks by Roy Cross and the painting of Michael Turner, as well as comic book illustrations of aircraft by various illustrators.

Exhbition of both original and prints of his Aviation and military pencil drawings.

 
I have primarily worked with black ink and muted colours in the past but through these new works i have experimented with a mix of vibrant colours and pattern. This new work has been heavily influenced by my recent discovery of the German expressionist movement, Bruke, and a new appreciation of the work of Matisse. Along with the influence Picasso's early work has always had on my artwork these have combined to steer my painting in this new expressive and colourful direction.

An exhibiton of colourful mixed media work that stems from Charles’ imagination creating interesting surreal imagery with both a painterly and drawn quality to the work.