Rosebay Willowherb by Wet Sand, Morar (Oil on linen, 20 x 20 )
All art at this fair is under £4000 at this annual event in Brunel's Old Station at Bristol Temple Meads. I will have work with the Lime Tree Gallery on Stand A10 and the Wren Gallery on Stand D9.
For more details, please click here.
Two Cranes, Bristol Harbour (Oil on linen, 12 x 12)
At the preview, Saturday 30th April 2012. Thank you so much to everyone who attended the preview, despite the torrential weather. It was a lot of fun!
Join in an exciting artistic journey around Wales at the Lime Tree Gallery in Bristol this spring. This very special themed event is a one-off collection of landscape paintings, drawings and postcards from an adventure around the Principality.
The oil paintings have a special surprise attached - their very own postcards showing the location of the view and a little personal message about the painting. If you're at the gallery, have a look at them!
Rhossili Bay (Oil on linen, 32 x 48)
Included in the show are over 40 beautiful little 5 x 7 postcards from the Welsh journey. These postcards are in cream mounts ready for framing, and are priced at £350 each.
Including scenes in oil and acrylic, they look perfect arranged in groups. It's your chance to own a little bit of Wales!
Harvest near Merthyr Tydfil (Unframed postcard, 5 x 7)
Green Sea, Aberyswyth (Unframed postcard, 5 x 7)
Flock of Sheep, Snowdonia (Unframed postcard, 5 x 7)
Also included are drawings and mixed media work, so this is a unique chance to see a range of work not normally on exhibition or for sale.
Rainclouds over Llandudno Pier (Mixed Media, 29 x 24)
The exhibition also includes works by Welsh artists such as Vivienne Williams, Howard Coles, Euan McGregor and Ceri Aukland Davies. It promises to be a really unique and exciting show.
"Judith Bridgland’s paintings hit me like a kick in the stomach, which doesn’t sound good, but does at least express a little bit of the punch which someone who handles paint like it springs from the tips of their fingers can give to a viewer through the experience of looking at their work. I am not a great lover of thickly applied paint generally, but when its done like this…I love it."
"Judith I Bridgland's Eastbourne Pier won the Royal Glasgow Institute's House For An Art Lover Prize in 2009. The resulting exhibition, a mix of subject matter and media "stemming from a love of colour and texture", is rooted in the genesis of that evocative oil. It's a snapshot of Bridgland's working process, her trademark vibrancy and textural dexterity worked out in a considerable variety of media and methods, from acrylics to procion dyes, screen prints to charcoals, organic matter and textiles. "Exploring texture and pattern through other media is a very useful starting point," says Bridgland. "Everything can be used to create art." If her Eastbourne subject matter stems from childhood familiarity, elsewhere there are colour-drenched acrylics of London and meaty oils of coastal Suffolk, including some fine, atmospheric and almost - but not quite - monochromatic renditions of Walberswick landing stages."
"...love the thick, textured, expression-filled paintwork"
To view a 5 minute video made by Scotland on TV of the artist in her former studio at WASPS talking about her work, click here.
(Since the film was made, the artist has bought and moved to her own studios, where she now works.)
To contact me, drop a line to judith@jibridgland.com.
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