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This exhibition is a showcase of glass made during the past two years. It focusses on recycling and reusing a material that never breaks down in the ground. I was oringinally inspired by a Time Time programme during the second year of my degree and I have been reclaiming and reusing glass destined for landfill ever since. (Glass, retrieved from Roman 'landfill' - they used to dig ditches to bury their waste in - was melted down and blown into a new vessel. The glass had not altered, it was unaffected by time or the effects of the elements.)
Currently waste window glass goes into landfill and only 34% of our bottle and container glass in the UK is recycled. What I make is my little bit of 'doing it for the environment'.
I was a student at Falmouth College of Art in the 1960’s and then went to India on a two year Commonwealth Scholarship, to study Indian Art.
Teaching followed in primary, secondary and adult education, which gradually took me north to the Scottish Borders. I also worked for the British Institute of Archaeology in Turkey, Syria and Libya, as an artist recording Roman artifacts.
I now paint and work in various mediums. In this exhibition much of my work is done in Egg-Tempera on wood obtained from the ‘Real Wood Studios’ at Monteviot Nurseries near Jedburgh. Other paintings are inspired by Prehistoric rock art found in Northumberland. For these I used gouache paint on wood. I am very grateful to my daughter, Kate Ravilious, for her scientific expertise in the accompanying writing to these paintings.
Click here for Anna and Stuart's website
Click here for Richard's website
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Click here for Keith's website
A Wonky World is a first solo display of work by York artist
Rayford. The exhibition contains a selection of the artists quirky
and characterful depictions of local scenes, and some from the
wider area, bringing life and frivolity to the places around us.
Click here for Rayford's website
