EXHIBITION: Cutting corners: colour works

Dates: July 30th – September 2nd 2019

EXHIBITION: Pilgrimage: an inner journey (Iona and beyond)
 
30th July- 14th August 2019

Worcester Cathedral

Date of Release: June 4th 2019

Visitors to Worcester cathedral will have the chance to see two new exhibitions by painter Sara Hayward RCA during August.  A series of semi abstract, meditative tondi (round paintings), inspired by olive trees, will be hung in the main body of the cathedral throughout August in an exhibition entitled “Cutting corners: colour works”. A further exhibition of paintings entitled “Pilgrimage: an inner journey (Iona and beyond)” will be shown in the Dean’s chapel during the first two weeks of August only including expressive paintings inspired by the Scottish island of Iona plus abstract colour works inviting meditative inner thought journeys.

Worcester based artist Hayward, who describes herself as a contemporary British colourist, studied fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University, then printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London. Printmaking still influences the way she works. Originally inspired by olive trees outside the Berardo museum in Lisbon the double sided tondi (round paintings) are an attempt to capture the pulsating rhythms and energy of nature. Each double sided painting is a mix of playful experimental vibrant expressive heightened colour, or graphic monochrome, revealing the complex nature of the unseen, attempting to capture the invisible vitality of the natural world.

In “Pilgrimage: an inner journey (Iona and beyond)”, Hayward revisits the seascape theme in small, intimate expressive paintings. Whilst some of these were inspired by a trip to the spiritual capital of Iona, others capture the wild, windswept, natural spirit of Cape Cornwall. With the accompanying abstract colour works the viewer is invited to pause for a moment, stand and stare and reflect a while.

Released by: Sara Hayward

Contact Details: Sara Hayward

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.powishayward.co.uk

Instagram: sarahaywardart

Telephone: 01905 357563


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