PRESS
RELEASE
QUAD
New paintings and sculpture from Phillippa Clayden, Carol
Corell, Denzil Forrester and Alan John
The Gallery in
“Paintings and sculptures flow
forward to more natural forms … the creative responses are nursed out of
the shadows without force, allowing the materials to develop a life of their own,
and a great trust in our collective memory.” QUAD Artists, 2008
Four well established, prize winning artists with an
impressive body of work come together for QUAD,
an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture at The Gallery in
Phillippa Clayden, Carol Corell, Denzil Forrester and Alan
John were initially drawn together when they established Artists in Action, an umbrella group which
encompasses their various ideas and approaches to art and its power to inspire,
transform and heal. Artists In Action
methods have been used in a series of extraordinarily successful projects over
several decades.
A broad range of paintings and sculpture will be on
display in
Phillippa Clayden
With 10 solo, and numerous group exhibitions, to her name,
Phillippa has also won both the Dorothy Morgan Prize and the Landseer Prize.
Her paintings are noted for their unusual and breathtaking imagery combined
with a stunning layered effect, which is built from a powerful instinctive link
to the world of the unconscious and of myth.
Art critic John Russell Taylor, who has written several of
her catalogues, says of her work: “In every sense, literal and
metaphorical, Clayden’s work is many-layered. Its impact on the emotions
and the instincts is powerfully immediate, but one can come back to it again
and again, and see new subtleties without loosing at all the first amazing
impact – the sense of simplicity behind the subtlety behind the
simplicity.”
Phillippa is founder of Young Visions, a unique method of
teaching and creating, which she has used in a variety of settings over the
past 25 years.
Carol Corell
Carol originally trained as a silversmith. She has won
Goddard’s Silver Design competition as well as The Goldsmith’s
Company Award for Design (twice) and the Top Award for Design in
Goldsmith’s Company’s ‘Craftsman of the Year’. She has
exhibited widely, and has work on permanent display in the
Since 1990 Carol has concentrated on painting, and has had
several solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the
In 1993 Carol founded Artsmart, an art history course for
children, which has received widespread coverage in the national press and
radio.
Denzil Forrester
Denzil is the winner of both the Harkness Fellowship (
Denzil’s work is draws heavily on his early years in
the West Indies and his love of the dub, blues and reggae clubs of
Writer and artist John Lyons says: “Denzil’s
active, creative impulse takes him through a process which involves drawing
with such intense concentration that the subject almost draws itself ….
Drawing can also assume a cognitive role for him: the essence of a subject is
captured and the artist becomes one with it. The act of ‘becoming one
with’ is the perfect way of knowing.”
Denzil is founder and curator of Caribbean Connection, a
series of exhibitions and cultural exchanges, developing and promoting the work
of
Alan John
Alan has shown both painting and sculpture in numerous
exhibitions, he has also had six solo exhibitions. In his work he gathers
colours, materials, and ideas which he then juggles with – to startling
effect. His impressive body of work has evolved steadily over the years and
displays and fascinating dialogue between the various levels of himself, and
the innate qualities of the materials collected.
Art Critic Marina Vaisey says: “…. I find his
work striking, a forceful combination of qualities that explore emotional fears
without weakness, and indicating human potential in a realistic unforced
manner, so that a kind of physical reality is deliberately exploited to reveal
complicated mental processes and emotions.”
QUAD: The Gallery in
Media contact: Julia Brosnan 07870 306867
julia.brosnan@btinternet.com
Art Work enquiries: 079003 17874 / during
exhibition week call The Gallery on 020 743 2612
Note to Editors: Artists in Action is an umbrella
organisation encompassing the original projects/ creative teaching methods of
the QUAD Artists:
Young Visions – Phillippa Clayden
Artsmart – Carol Corell
Islington Arts Factory – Alan John
Images in order:
O look there’s Jo – Alan John
Sustained – Carol Corell
Young Coconut Island – Denzil Forrester
Mythic Hike – Phillippa Clayden
