Really looking forward to being part of the show that opens the New Gallery at Keams Yard Whitstable from April 4th until the 17th, PV this Saturday April 5th from 6 p.m.

These are the paintings I am exhibiting, together with dimensions.... As you might be able to work out from the images I am thinking Flotsam and Jetsam....Hope you know the difference!

"A Journey" 

" a Journey" 2013, collage transfer and acrylic on unprimed canvas, 31cm x 31 cm

 "Jetsam", 2014, Acrylic and collage on canvas, 70 x 50 cm

(SOLD)

"Flotsam"1, 2014 , oil on canvas, 20 x20 cm

 "Flotsam" set of 4, 2014, oil on canvas 20 x 20 cm each

"Thinking Threads", 2014, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

You can also see my prints which are part of the East Kent Printmakers exhibition at the Whitstable Museum and Gallery and the Herne Bay Museum and Gallery until 1 June

 'A Fine Line',2014, collagraph print 

 "Viracocha", 2014 collagraph print

News from the studio

My last posting was in November about the Paysage 13 exhibition at The Suisse Art Space in Laussanne.... so time for an update!

Espacio Gallery, "Heaven and Hell" exhibition

I had a great Christmas and early in the New Year through to February  I exhibited in the "Heaven and Hell" exhibition at Espacio Gallery, on Bethnall Green Rd. Many thanks to all of you who came. It was a great space and I really enjoyed working with the Espacio team. A big thank you to Carlos de Lins and Ahmed and the rest of the team for selecting curating and hanging the exhibition.

I am delighted to have been accepted as one of Espacio's artists and look forward to showing at the gallery again in 2014.

Forthcoming exhibitions:

East Kent Printmakers 2014 @Whitstable Museum and Gallery from 27 March to 18 May 2014

I am delighted to have my work included in this exhibition. Thank you to Manda Gifford and the selection panel as well as the Print Block and Whitstable Framing for sponsoring. 

please let me know if you are visiting as I will try to be there to meet you and show you around.

 "Viracocha", Collograph, printing block ink on paper

 "A Fine Line", Collograph and Printing block ink on paper

There are also a couple of pieces of earlier work which I made during my time at the Artichoke studios in Brixton,  using lino-cut relief printing. They are in the browser unframed.

For info about the Whitstable Museum and Art Gallery:

http://www.canterbury.co.uk/museums/whitstable-museum/

I have also been invited to exhibit at the New Gallery space opening at Keams Yard from April 4th until April 17th. I am looking forward to showing some of my new paintings in the series "Thinking Threads". For more about Keams yard:

http://www.coolplaces.co.uk/places/uk/england/kent/whitstable/1757-keams-yard-studio-gallery

I think you will agree its a wonderful Gallery in a great location, facing the sea and right next to some wonderful restaurants and pubs as well as the car park...always handy!

Thinking Threads study 20 x 20 cm oil on canvas

Finally I am delighted to be taking part in the Whitstable Biennale 2014 as part of its Satellite programme and am showing (if that is the word!) a sound installation on Saturday May 31st. The work ties in very much with "Thinking Threads" ......

More details to follow nearer the time. For information about the Whitstable Biennale 2014   http://www.whitstablebiennale.com/

There are couple of more projects in the pipeline.....more about that later! 

Brilliant to hear from  see| me that my artwork will be displayed in Miami at one of their booths in the SCOPE Art Fair. It will be displayed in rotation on several HD plasma screens from December 3rd - 8th. For more information about the Scope Art Fair check out

http://scope-art.com/shows/miami-beach-2013/about



If you are in Miami next week, feel free to stop by the booth and say hello! They'd love to see you.

Also looking forward to the opening of Paysage 13 at the Swiss Art Space, off to Lausanne on Wednesday! Will be great to meet Laurence Bettens and the rest of the artists. A bonus is that I can  catch up with Genvieve Brunner of RivierArt who is attending the private view and was with us in Giardano in Italy in the summer......small world!

Really pleased to have two of my paintings selected for the exhibition" Paysage13" in Lausanne at the Swiss Art Space from December 5th - 23rd. Looking forward to the opening..

 Urquiza (2012) oil and collage on canvas

Cafayatte (2012) oil on canvas,

New Painting November 2013

acrylic and collage on canvas  70 x 50 cms

For those of you who might be thinking of coming to the exhibition at Espacio Gallery, "Heaven and Hell", the curatorial team have posted an introdution to the exhibition on their website.

http://www.espaciogallery.com/heaven-and-hell.html

 Cocoon , A collaborative piece  by Elspeth Penfold and Ignacio Canete Sanchez

Heaven and Hell
9 January - 2 February 2014 

Preview: Thursday 9 January 6-9pm
The question we started with in creating this show was: how would contemporary artists respond to this subject?  In our secular culture, where there is no otherworldly accountability for our behaviour, where we expect our needs and even our wants to be met here and now, where the consumerist imperative leaves little room for postponement of desires, would the theme find any resonance at all?

Lucretia Allan, Trinidad Ball, Eleanor Buffam, Consuelo Celluzzi,
Jamie Chapman, Sher Christopher, Robert Fitzmaurice, Beth Gadd,
Kate Hazell, Nicca Iovinella, Graham Johnston, Mary Knight,
Edu Luna, Carlos Mol, Elspeth Penfold, Jane Phillips, Pawel Prus,
Julia Tester, Tina Viljoen, Christopher Ward, Suok won Yoon, Annie Zamero

Guest Performance Artists
Dominique Vannod, Jones Tensini

Curatorial team:
Ahmed Farooqui, Carlos de Lins, Renee Rilexie

 I hope this whets your appetite and look forward to seeing you at the gallery in January.

Exhibition

It was great to hear from Carlos Lins a couple of weeks ago that my piece titled "Cocoon"has been selected to be included  included in the "Heaven and Hell" exhibition at Espacio gallery in Bethnall Green in January.

This is a mixed media piece involving knitted cocoons and paintings which I made in 2010 as a collaborative venture with a spanish artist called Ignacio Cañete Sanchez. I am looking forward to seeing it installed in a new space and will be contacting those on my mailing list with details nearer the time of the exhibition.

A part of "Cocoon"

For more information about Espacio follow this link http://www.espaciogallery.com/ . 

News from the Studio

 I have been busy for the last few months making new work and reflecting on the connections that pull my work together. There is a sort of schitzophrenia to my practice that I wanted to reflect upon and try to articulate.

As those of you who follow my work know I make installations, weave, knit, collage, print, paint and work collaboratively with other artists. I am driven to a scatter gun approach in my studio which is intuitive, choosing what to do and make and one thing leads to another. Consequently I often have several things on the go and then suddenly it all comes together.

I have been continuting with the work I started for the exhibition at Barclays Bank in July, titled "From the Cradle."Which took as its starting point the work of William Morris " How We Live and How we Might Live" , a meeting I had with our bank manager Jenny Duggan and a conversation with my three year old grandaughter, Lily-Jean. You can check out images of the exhibition in previous entries to this blog.

The plan has been to continue to explore textiles, particularly weaving and knitting and from these to develop drawing, printing and painting to try to consolidate the relationship between the two within my work. I have made a few experimental pieces photographed below.

Collographs using relief print method                                

Weaving - Colour and line

using Intaglio 

 There is a strong relationship between this body of work and "Impossible Weavings", my installation in 2009 which you can check out on this link to my website http://elspethpenfold.com/impossibleWeavings.htm

I hope to exhibit these as part of a larger exhibition including prints and drawings in 2014.

Publication

I am delighted to have one of my paintings included in the publication "Arte Energia Creativa" published by Trevisan International Art this October and will be available for purchase through amazon. The painting, "Drift", is one of the paintings shown at my solo exhibition "Discovery"at the Horsebridge Centre in June this year.

Whitstable Biennale 2014

Watch this space!

I am currently engaged in volunteering for the NCI Coastguards in Tankerton. I am also going to use the experience to develop work for the Biennale next summer and beyond! Who knows...drawing, painting...such a great studio space.This is where I will be based

Can't wait to find to be part of the team and to find out where this takes me!!

 If you would like to be included on my mailing list please let me know, elspethpenfold@yahoo.co.uk.