Mormorio

Recently, and co-incidentally, Paul Haywood, Kara Lyons and Chris Leach have all been making separate works that reference water in a variety of forms, using a range of disparate media that represents each of the artists' practices; video, photography, sculptural installation and drawings. The impetus for this exhibition is to demonstrate the work of 3 artists whose work is stimulated by this similar, powerful subject matter expressed creatively in different ways.

This group exhibition showcases their individual work based around water as a common theme, and draws into focus the numerous extended ideas associated with it.

Chris has been making exquisite, miniature and detailed works in drawn and painted mediums that describe the powerful energy of the swelling sea using photographs as source material. Paul has been making line drawings using carbon paper, photographs and videos of waterscapes around our immediate locality, which illustrate the perpetual vertiginous strength of moving water. Karen has been looking at the patterns created by water in the local canals using these observations to make sculptural performative installations using wet clay and gigantic graphite drawings made with her feet.

The show will be a dynamic, highly visual and varied collection of work selected from each of the artists' recent collections.

The artists' work contemplates the beauty and awe of this vast subject matter as well as the complexity and fascination it has as a fundamental aspect of our lived, natural environment. The work speaks of the way in which we relate to water physically as well as existentially; of our relationship to cycles, power, scale, movement and the sublime.