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SIXTEEN GALLERY | 3 - 9 APRIL

FOUR DIVERSE ARTISTS SHARE THEIR VISIONS IN 4 BY 4

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

TRINA PITTMAN - HAYES

Trina studied for her BA Fine Art at Coventry in 1985 and after a career in art education has recently

graduated from an MA in fine Art from Gloucestershire University.

Based in Fishguard West Wales her work is informed by her surroundings. She explores the interface

between interior and exterior worlds through painting and film. She is drawn to images that question

our understanding of what we are seeing.

This body of work has been inspired by images captured from underwater filming, intriguing views

normally unseen by the human eye. The figures are distorted and fragmented through the lens of the

sea and allude to our vulnerability in this underwater world.

TERESA POOL

Having trained as a decorative painter with designer Thomas Messel in the 1980s Teresa Poole learnt

techniques that have followed her through life, gilding, marbling, verre eglomise, and grisaille murals.

Poole worked in London specialising in restoring and painting oriental screens and lacquer. Then worked internationally with murals and art collections on the QE2, in Italy, Australia, France, Amsterdam, Ibiza and a collection of murals in Florida USA. She also has artwork and murals more locally at Calcot Manor, the Mahal Restaurant and Cotswold Grange Hotel in Cheltenham.

She has exhibited at the New York Agora Gallery, Prema Gallery, Kendrick Street Gallery Stroud, Chelsea Town Hall, Red Dot Gallery and ran a gallery in Vence, South France. Represented by Liberation Art Gallery in Brighton, and The View Gallery in Wotton Basset.

She has exhibited at Stroud SVA open studios for the last 14 years and SIT Select textile festival. She moved back to Gloucestershire 25 years ago and works from her studio at Victoria Works studios in Stroud where she continues to challenge herself finding her own personal voice through her paintings and teaching students finishes and techniques on metal leaf.

“My work is heavily influenced by the Japanese and oriental screens I restored and painted in my

early years .. I am trying to capture a moment in time and an essence of wildlife nature and our surroundings. My work is quite personal taking my memories, moments, dreams and thoughts … then reinterpreting these images using symbolism and the natural world... rather like a museum of my mind, trying to make some sense out of the chaos. Coming from a rather rigid creative background of decorative art I nowadays like to work organically starting with an inky watery abstract flooding metal leaf and patinating, then taking the image to a more traditional composition. I sometimes feel more a conductor in an orchestra of colour.... leading the paint but never completely in control of where it’s going.... but always in the hope that it leads to another magical world.”

LUCY INDER

Based in Stroud, Lucy is a landscape painter whose paintings are full of colour and pattern

reminiscent of the Fauvists. After attending art school in Cardiff, Lucy had a teaching career in which

she taught art at secondary school level for over 25 years. Since painting full time, Lucy has had two

sell out exhibitions in Stroud.

“Painting has enabled me to build my own language of expression. Creating marks and layers of

colour and texture to describe the views which shape my life…I like to find shapes and evocative

repetitious lines which sing out like jewels of colour and translate them into my own painted creations-

reminding me of childhood textiles, patchwork shapes and tasty colours which I love.”

ANNIE HUTCHINSON

Annie Hutchinson (also known as Little Wren House Factory) has been a practising Artist living in

Gloucestershire for the past forty years.

During this time Annie's creative objective has been to explore and experiment with a variety of mediums. Sustainability has been a key factor alongside an exploration of ideas that stem from Folkloric, Mythical and Religious Ideologies.

The subject of my work has consistently been semi- autobiographical as I try to navigate personal and

global issues, allegorically encapsulating the human condition and the potential effects on our beautiful planet.

Annie has sold her work both Nationally and Internationally and has a number of pieces in Private

Collections.