Myo New Street Square : Claire Chandler, Olivia Rose Durley, Rose Fulbright-Vickers, Sarah Medway, Ele Pack, Sarah Tew and Mark Wright

CLAIRE CHANDLER

www.clairechandler.co.uk

OLIVIA ROSE DURLEY

Framed within a border reminiscent of a Polaroid camera, Olivia Durley’s paintings are each embedded with connotations of the transient nature of time. The border becomes a device inducing the same implications as photography – that of capturing the fleeting: a moment past. The quick, fleshy, paint rushes over the canvas contained only by the frame which seeks, like a photograph, to contain it for longevity. Inspired by romantic themes, Durley’s work can be viewed through the lens of Joseph Görres who in 1802 wrote that the landscape painting extends the sphere of the painter “up to the furthest mists of the horizon, and the imagination bathes gladly in the distant airy blue.” The paintings have a duality which captures both the feeling and inspiration felt by the landscape painter and the precious, fleeting, experience of those moments.

www.oliviarosedurley.com

ROSE FULBRIGHT-VICKERS

A tactile and practically proficient person, Rose works with canvas, silk, paper and wood, in a range of paint mediums from fluid watercolours to house paints and acrylics, which she regularly makes herself from raw pigment powders.

Having used silk for many years in her luxury loungewear designs, Rose has been drawn back to painting on and working with the natural fabric, devising her own preparation methods for creating lasting artworks. Multiple applications of acrylic wash enable Rose to build up paintings in the manner of a watercolorist, and the resulting effect is a beguiling depth and ever-shifting background with an appealing luminescence.

Rose’s work explores the natural world through the lens of a colourist, celebrating moments of joy and playfulness juxtaposed with concepts of the mysterious, sublime power of nature. Her belief, deeply rooted in her upbringing, that art and beauty should be applied to everything that surrounds us, means that her work often spills over onto antique furniture pieces, wall murals and fabric designs, making her painting collections into 360 degree experiences.

 www.rosefulbright.com

SARAH TEW

Sarah Tew was born in Cumbria, UK in 1987. Now lives and works in London. Sarah Tew's interdisciplinary practice straddles mediums such as painting, installation and photography. Her ongoing devoted relationship to the abundance of nature and its uncertainty allows Sarah to explore in situ experiments which are in flux. ​Her work is held in the University of the Arts London Collection, Art Gazette and private collections in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia.​​

 www.sarahtew.co.uk

MARK WRIGHT

Mark Wright’s nocturnal yet luminous paintings masterfully capture the enigmatic beauty of sublime landscape. Using a cosmic alternation of light and dark, Wright creates such mediated imagery based in part on photographs taken and collected. The pictures feature phosphorus organic and natural imagery converging into what the artist calls “dystopian spaces.” This intersection of representation, experience and process is described elegantly by the artist as “A discursive investigation of the natural world or more specifically landscape as the subject matter is central to my work as an artist. This landscape is not about a specific sense of place but more about the idea of landscape and our relationship we have to it in a post digital world.”