Bovey Paradiso Artists

Venue

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Venue Facilities

Artist statement

Bovey Paradiso is a multi-arts venue and community driven gallery, housed in a restored Elizabethan building. There will be 5 local artists displaying a wide range of creative inspirational work. Ranging from interactive soundscapes, gestural mark making, children’s story telling and illustration, textiles, sketches and mixed media paintings.

Extended Bio

Susan Bradshaw - A textile artist specialising in lace and embroidery. I like to use natural threads and include beads and other media to create texture. Sarah McIntyre - Sarah makes well-known books including the highly-illustrated Adventure mice series for young readers. Browse her original ink and watercolour paintings, and catch a glimpse of how she works in her upstairs studio at Bovey Paradiso. Sally Wilson - Sally is a soundscape artist and professional sound therapist. She enjoys weaving sounds with art and creating immersive experiences to blend the feeling of motivation and creativity. Her passion is working with visual artists as this matches her creative side and she see’s the value of combining the two together. Natalie Naumann - Is a contemporary mixed media artist. Her creative process is inspired by music and exploring the complexity of human interaction, and the internal landscape of female thoughts and feelings. Exploring the figure through hours of dedicated life drawing. Harriet Brittaine – is a figurative painter mostly working in oils who is currently exploring the themes of childhood and motherhood through a mixture of naturalism and symbolism. These latest works, started in 2024, use her son and daughter as subjects and sometimes feature a maternal presence, either a self-portrait, allegory or symbol representing an aspect of motherhood. She is influenced by painters who excel at virtuoso brush marks such as Sorolla, Sargent and Fechin, and more recently contemporary artists; Kent Williams for his narrative paintings and Jose Luis Cena for his depictions of childhood. Brittaine is a a self-taught artist who has exhibited abroad as well as in the UK, including with Royal Institute of Oil Painters. She is returning to painting (2024) after having a son and daughter in 2019 and 2023. She currently runs life drawing sessions at the White Hart Hotel in Moretonhampstead and portrait drawing classes at Bovey Paradiso, Bovey Tracey.

Group Members

Susan Bradshaw - https://susanbradshaw.co.uk/ Sarah McIntyre - https://www.instagram.com/jabberworks?igsh=dm5vczYzYnA3cjUx Sally Wilson - https://www.instagram.com/the_artof_tao?igsh=aTR5ZDgxdjBzbm5v Natalie Naumann - https://www.instagram.com/natalienaumannart?igsh=MXF5bG92Nzhvems4aA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr