For those of you who’ve not met her yet, we have a new person in the village – Esther Tyson. Esther moved to Parwich, from Wales, at the end of April and is staying at The Catlow.
She brings even more artistic talent into the village and could appear on your door-step at any moment if you have a garden that looks as if it might contain frogs or toads!
Having being practising artistry since childhood, Esther has been working as a professional artist for the last five years, since graduating. Here are a few examples of her work…
Born in 1973, Esther was brought up in a small town at the edge of the Lake District, Cumbria. She studied at Carlisle College of Art and Design, Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art and then London’s Royal College of Art. She has exhibited widely in the UK and was short listed for the prestigious Hunting Art Prize (2005) and for Welsh Artist of the Year (2005/2006). She has exhibited with the Mall Galleries (1999 – 2005) where she was Associate and Bursary winner 2000 and was elected a full member in 2004.
Esther says about her art….
“I love to build a painting/drawing with different marks.
When I am looking at a landscape I look at the weight, the shape, the movement, I hear the sound. All this in turn informs the marks I make. I build up a Vocabulary of marks which mean different things to me. A strong line, a soft line a fat slow heavy line a thin quick moving line. A line that is direct a line that is wandering. A mark on the paper which interrupts the fluid line. Movement in marks unmoving marks. Looking behind and in front…
Back to basics: Goldfinch Series
The goldfinches have returned daily to our garden. From first light they take turns, they have their own order, their individual routine. I apply my pencil to the page of an old exercise book. I use these pages so I don’t become precious about the marks I make. Precious dominates my work in the early stages and frustrates me completely. After a time the drawing takes over and I respond to my subject without complication. It is in this state I am consumed.”
A small selection of Esther’s work is illustrated within this post and more images can be viewed at http://www.fountainfineart.com/EstherTyson.htm
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