Their proposals and designs for the new sculpture will be exhibited in the Subscription Rooms between 15 and 21 January 2007 from 10am to 5pm where the public will have a chance to vote for their favourite.
This year’s Arts Award attracted 31 entries from artists in the Stroud District and the short-listing panel agreed that the standard of entries was very high. The artists who submitted proposals were invited to send us some details about themselves and their work. Here are the artists who took up the offer:
Robin Howell works locally as a product designer, engineer and graphic artist, and dabbles in various traditional art forms. Fascinated by the overlaps between the sciences and the arts, the industrial and the natural, the mechanical and the organic, his proposal attempts to express how these apparently conflicting philosophies have combined symbiotically to create the enigma that is Stroud. The sculpture – a hollow bronze ‘vessel’ formed from one continuous surface spiralling round 5 times to create a ring with 5 undulating peaks and valleys – would float defiantly upon its own reflection in the pond.
After more than 30 years as an engineer I have taken up making works of art and training to do it better. My strengths lie in drawing, painting and sculpture. I like abstract forms that reach emotions through our
, and I like representation especially of people. I work primarily at Stroud College.
Contact: Stonecroft Hambutts Mead, Painswick, Stroud GL6 6RP, tel: 01452 814721;
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Having left the city and a career as a Chartered Marketer in venture capital investment five years ago, I’ve retrained as a coach for people in business, artists and privately while allowing myself time to realise my own visual art ambitions.
The South West’s coastline and Cotswolds countryside inspire many of my paintings, prints, sculpture, rugs and mixed media pieces. I have an experimental innovative approach and enjoy bringing together traditional methods with modern industrial materials, to produce arresting results with depth and often a twist of humour.
I’m looking for more opportunities to exhibit and sell my work while being committed to developing my professional practice across a broad range of fine arts fields. I am director of South West Open Studios, active and committee member of Stroud Valleys Artspace (SVA), BANA, RWA and other regional and national initiatives.
Our work has been wide and varied in a vast range of materials including steel, paint, and clay. We have always striven to capture the energy of movement in sculpture, painting, drawing and ceramics.
The exploration of the dynamic forces in nature and particularly in the human and animal form. To capture this in a static form, continues to be the motivating drive of our work..
www.jaafar-designs.com
Since 2000 I have been creating paintings and sculptures inspired by a fusion of Islamic pattern and Celtic knotwork. These circular or spherical knots can be interpreted as metaphors for personal or global interconnectivity. The proposed sculpture for Stroud College would have been cast in highly polished bronze and attached high on the building.
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