The expertise and knowledge of the RUH’s art team is expanding its role and has begun providing services across the wider community, with Art at the Heart now exhibiting at CircleBath in Peasedown St John twice a year.
The first exhibition features Ione Parkin, a painter and printmaker based in Bath. She exhibits nationally and internationally and her work is in numerous private and corporate collections.
She is an elected member of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA). Ione is currently involved in a project with astronomers from the University of Leicester and the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and will be exhibiting her work at the Cambridge Science Festival in March 2017.
Ione said: “My work celebrates the beauty of the raw elements of nature – contemplations on primal energy, chemical fusion, the birth and death of star systems.
“I seek inspiration from varied sources – from visions of the expanding universe to satellite macro-imagery of Earth’s surface, making paintings which enable a synthesis to evolve from this diversity.”
Another artist on show in the exhibition is Terri Hogan, who in the interest of continuity of theme, paints several pieces at once, each complementing and adding to the depth of the others whilst retaining their individuality.
Often initial drawing is revealed as the processes used frequently involves sanding down or washing back, leaving multi layers of pigment and process.
Terri’s future work will include further investigation of marks left on the land by early man. Major influences in the works are painters such as Tapies, Peter Lanyon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Sandra Blow.
