Angela Slack
Dennis Spicer • Ronnie Drillsma
Marianthi Lainas
Helen Smith • Clare Flinn
Thursday 1st August – Saturday 7th September
Thursday – Saturday 10am – 4pm
Angela Slack
For Angela, each painting is an investigation where drawings, colour studies, mono prints and collage combine together glimpses of memories, experiences of place or everyday objects. Hand drawn marks can combine with self made collage papers, direct paint application and glazed layers, bringing richness and depth to the surface…
Dennis Spicer
After doing light shows for rock bands in the late sixties/early seventies and printing tee shirts for punk bands in the mid seventies, Dennis spent four years at art college in London. Since then he has taught drawing and painting and exhibited in both London and on the Wirral. He has three paintings in the permanent collection of the Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead as well as in many private collections.
Ronnie Drillsma
Ronnie lived in North Wales for thirty years before recently moving over to the Wirral. As a tutor, she taught drawing and painting in the local community, running workshops and demonstrations and enjoying the opportunity to inspire students through discovery and experimentation. Throughout this time, Ronnie continued to develop her own artwork, exploring materials and techniques that led to her unique style of combining thin layers of collage with acrylic paint.
Marianthi Lainas
Having spent most of her life living at the coastal edges of the land, Marianthi’s work is greatly informed by a sense of place and by her deep connection with the littoral landscape and its cycles of ebb and flow. Her abstract mixed media works are an emotional and expressive response to the dynamic, natural environment found on the Hilbre tidal islands and Dee Estuary sands close to her Wirral home.
Helen Smith
Created from kiln-formed glass, Helen’s tactile glass pieces are strongly influenced by place. However, rather than depicting the landscape directly her focus is always on a sense of the atmosphere of a place in combination with the interpretation of found textures within the landscape.
Clare Flinn
Clare’s preoccupations as a painter are about colour, light and texture. She is primarily a landscape painter, favouring the wilder edges of the British Isles. Estuaries feature heavily in this series of new paintings, where she is also experimenting with collage and water-soluble line.
