"Painting & then some..." 2nd year Fine Art Degree group Exhibition

Venue: Laine & Co Art Gallery
Starts: Thursday, November 15, 2012
Ends: Sunday, December 2, 2012
Address: 122 Victoria Rd Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 1SL
Location: Yorkshire

Laine & Co is pleased to showcase a group exhibition by 2nd year art students currently studying BA Fine Art Degree at Westwood Campus, Scarborough“As a group of artists we produce work encompassing a broad range of artistic techniques and styles, from prize winning watercolour landscapes, vibrant oil painting, to expressive prints and three dimensional work”. “This exhibition is an opportunity to convey the freshness of approach by us as artists; of artists making important pieces that translate learning and newly acquired skills in to amazing individual pieces of artwork” This is an opportunity to see firsthand, artwork exhibited by a group of up and coming artists.Thursday 15th November– Sunday 2nd December 2012 Opening times: Thurs – Sat 11.30 – 4.30pm Sun 12 – 4pm A varied and wonderful assortment of artwork and bespoke gifts are also on display & for sale by a range of artists …Plus… A selection of artwork by Resident artists: Janilaine Mainprize & Jane Sullivan & Photography by Kevin Mainprize

Janilaine Mainprize

My art is an outcome of learning from and translating the things that I see, feel and find both physically and emotionally often discovered when out and about.Â I combine and recycle mundane and found objects, especially cloth and ephemera alongside varied art disciplines to gain greater dimension and depth.

I am interested in how the fragility of my environment resonates with my personal experiences. I am constantly surprised by the links I find between these materials and how they evoke emotions and memories for the viewer or myself.

Combining mixed media alongside found objects enables me to explore these connections and create a personal response. The colours I choose are predominantly neutral and subtle emphasizing and highlighting shape, texture and marks, the outcome frequently resulting in assemblage, sculptural and relief pieces. The challenge of bringing together different elements is often a journey on its own.

My awareness of and relationship with my surroundings is very important to both my work and to me and through these connections I seek to create and share new or renewed interpretations. I involve its previous life and history and try to recall distant memories by re-visiting forgotten times then re-connect and re-create to share in the present. I feel that by putting something into a new context I will lead the viewer to hopefully relate with it, re-evaluate and perhaps appreciate it.

The ever-changing sense of time, memory and the shifting of values fascinates me.....as a result of these small yet unique discoveries I unearth a little more of myself.