Field System Gallery, Ashburton, Devon, has announced its upcoming exhibition schedule for the last slice of the year — the work of four more artists set to converse and contrast with the moorland landscape of the gallery’s Dartmoor home.
Chloe Bonfield’s Only in the Garden. Chloe’s paintings are a mediation between the subconscious, the body and the vegetal, the garden. She employs images from a history of art, known mostly through painting, from books that narrate strange orders of the world (Observer books, found catalogues and gardening manuals), and from her regular drawing practice. Chloe says of her new works, ‘The paintings are working on a symbolic and felt level, and at this point in my practice feel like they might be beginning to speak a bit.’ Chloe teaches and works in painting, sound and text in Cornwall.
We are hardwired to walk through the landscape. Humans have an innate sense of safety when on hilltops and when hearing birdsong. We feel calm when amongst trees and by water. Anita’s works are a reminder that we are deeply rooted to landscape and have an intrinsic need to access it. She captures the unpredictable nature and ever-shifting moods of Dartmoor, the images both elegant and tender, reflecting her deep appreciation of this unique place. Anita Reynolds is a painter and printmaker based in Devon. She is a member of MAKE Southwest (contemporary craft & education centre), and a tutor and mentor at Newlyn School of Art. (Anita’s website / Instagram)
Mark’s work is colourful, abundant and immersive, tinged with a flavour of mid-century illustration and folkloric imagery. His paintings draw on nature, turmoil and the esoteric, searching for a feeling of ceaseless movement and the dark intoxication of old fairytales. He makes his work from a place of optimism, believing Art is evidence that humankind is not entirely, irredeemably awful.
In the middle of last winter the writer and artist Martin Shaw braved a three-day storm to go pilgrimaging on the smallest of the Aran Islands. This is a gathering of drawings, paintings and recordings responding to the adventure. Dr Martin Shaw is an acclaimed teacher of myth and author of the award-winning Myth teller trilogy. He founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University, and is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK.
Field System will also host a series of standalone events before the end of the year — including the Incredible Vegetables perennial vegetables and edible plants sale on 14th September; a one-day exhibition of Cara Roxanne’s Inside The Dreaming Oracle on 20th October: and Ethan Pennell’s Dartmoor Folklore Map Brought to Life…and Beyond! performances on 2nd November. Field System’s annual group exhibition, Brighten Ye Corners, will run from late November to the end of the year, with participants to be announced in the autumn.
Find more information, including visiting information, via the Field System website.