MOTHERFATHER / November 2024 / @asylumstudiosuk
MOTHERFATHER brought together ten artists who are also mothers and fathers, each grappling with the intricate dance of raising and supporting children while sustaining a dynamic creative practice. The exhibition aimed to ignite a conversation about the complexities and rewards of being both a parent and an artist. Exploring how these dual roles intersect, challenge, and ultimately enrich one another, revealing the resilience and adaptability required to thrive in both spheres.
Jamie Clements @jamievclements
Max Clements @barerootroses
Hayley Field @hayleyfeldstein
Tom Goodchild #tomgoodchild
James Hankey @hankeyjames
Anna Ilsley @annailsley
Alastair Johnson #alastairjohnson
Louisa Longstaff-Scales @norfolk_painter
Liberty Smith @_liberty_smith_
Jevan Watkins Jones @jevanwatkinsjones
Photos: James Hankey
#motherfather #exhibition #artexhibition
Yellowhammer - a joint exhibition with Max Clements @barerootroses and brought together by @simoncarter11 finishes this Friday at Art:Oasis in Frinton. Check @theartoffrinton for opening times.
Exhibition text:
Yellow is a colour that both artists enjoy in their work; work that evokes natures shapes and rhythms. Clements grew up on the Romney Marsh where fields of yellow oilseed rape pressed the horizon and met with the blue sky. Watkins Jones grew up
on the edge of heathland where the yellow of gorse, broom and yellowhammers opposed the green chain link fencing.
In recalling these they were reminded that personal connections to nature are often deep ones. Visual memory, whether old or new, touches sensibilities and informs how their work takes shape in the studio - echoeing an experience of being out there, surrounded and enveloped by nature.
There are visual similarities between the two artists - colour, texture, pattern and use of oil paint and charcoal to name a few, and some distinct differences - Clements continued exploration of repetition that concomitantly speaks of internal worlds and Watkins Jones’ ontological enquiry into the cultivated and the wild.
#yellow #hammer #essexcoast #contemporaryartworkonpaper
“What is it of?”
These paintings have become part of a larger, ongoing body of work that began by accident, made with leftover paint from larger paintings. They’re painted intuitively—more like traces or echoes than planned compositions. Their meanings tend to surface slowly, often weeks later, as I begin to notice forms or rhythms emerging, a bit like a Rorschach test.
These paintings occupy that uncertain space where looking and understanding don’t quite align. I like that they resist the question of “what is it of?”
For me, they’re less about depiction and more about perception—how we search for meaning even when an image or experience won’t fully yield it. Their simplicity is deliberate: it slows the act of seeing, making the surface itself the subject.
I understand why that simplicity can feel unsettling, but for me, restraint is essential. These are quiet acts of painting—concerned less with subject matter than with the process of seeing and perceiving. It’s not about what they show, but how they let looking unfold.
#painting #process #meaning #maxclements
My painting Peaches at the joint exhibition, Yellowhammer @theartoffrinton with @jevanwatkinsjones
Go see! On until 31st October
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Posted @withregram • @theartoffrinton A pair of paintings by Max Clements in our current exhibition. ‘Are Those Branches or Stones’ and ‘Those are Branches, Those are Stones’, oil on linen, each 28×38cm.
Yellowhammer work by @barerootroses
and @jevanwatkinsjones is at Oasis, Frinton until 31st October. Open weekday mornings except Wednesday or by appointment. DM for info and enquiries.
Posted @withregram • @theartoffrinton Fell and Ridge two exquisite paintings by Max Clements @barerootroses
Both for sale, DM for enquiries.
Call at Oasis weekday mornings except Wednesday or by appointment to see Yellowhammer, our current show of work by Max and @jevanwatkinsjones
Posted @withregram • @theartoffrinton A few finishing tweaks from @jevanwatkinsjones and our next exhibition is on the walls.
Come to Oasis, Frinton tomorrow, Saturday 13th September 2 to 4pm for the opening of Yellowhammer by Jevan and Max Clements @barerootroses
You really don’t want to miss this...
Yellowhammer
@jevanwatkinsjones + me
@theartoffrinton curated by @simoncarter11
13th September - 31st October
Open Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri: 9.30-12pm
Opening Saturday 13th September, 2-4pm
Hope to see you there!
Thank you Simon for asking me to be a part of this duo exhibition with Jevan
#oilpainting #oil #painting #yellow #hammer #yellowhammer #artoasisfrinton #frinton #simoncarter #jevanwatkinsjones #maxclements
