June Forster

The Private View of “Seasons Change”, my exhibition at New Court Gallery, Repton, was a lovely evening of meeting new people as well as old friends. So nice to have such support and keen interest shown in the work! We also managed to pop in to see Paula Kemp’s super work, just down the road at Gallery No.1.

My exhibition at New Court Gallery will be a resource for Repton School pupils, and as part of the school, is open for viewing by appointment by ringing

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The work shows the progression from watercolour studies made in Scotland through to several abstract studio pieces. It was always this process that fascinated me before I studied art; the why and the how.
Well, after years at art college I realised that it is something that happens over time and work evolves in directions that take me by surprise. I guess this is why I felt compelled to pursue painting through my Art Practice PhD, and to this day, time in the studio deepens my understanding of paint and the process of painting. It makes for an interesting and exciting life.

Exhibition at New Court Gallery, Repton

OPENING 7 – 9 PM FRIDAY 13th JANUARY 2023

This exhibition, “Seasons Change”, is the result of two sketching trips to Scotland in late 2022, with the aim of making visual responses to the autumn and early winter colours.

I chose to work directly on cotton paper postcards because of their strength, size, and portability, using watercolour, and mostly worked from the car, stopping off whenever anything caught my eye. Visiting two contrasting locations on each trip, the dramatic NW Highlands and the tundra-like Cairngorms, enabled me to compare how the changing seasons impacted on the landscape.

The exhibition also includes several follow-up pieces made back home in my studio in Wales.

 

‘Another Line to Follow’ is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages at the School of Art, Aberystwyth. It celebrates the ongoing friendship and collaboration between artists with links to Aberystwyth University.

Although currently closed because of the Coronavirus crisis, we are lucky to have an online catalogue available, thanks to School of Art Senior Curator, Neil Holland. The exhibitors thank Neil,  and Karen Westendorf, Curatorial Assistant, for their assistance throughout. Here is a link to the catalogue and we hope you enjoy perusing the artworks and that you stay safe and well in these difficult times. Art will help us through!

Link to Catalogue: https://aberystwythuniversitycollections.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/anotherlinebooklet_med.pdf

 

I am happy to be invited to exhibit at the Freelands Foundation, London, in ‘Fully Awake 5.6’,  a show that celebrates inter-generational aspects of teaching painting.  My brief was to select a work by a former tutor and one by a former tutee. I met up with  one of my chosen artists,Tom Voyce, at the Private View last week and we caught up on news after his win on Sky Arts Lanadscape Artist of the Year. We also discussed our latest collaboration that will result in a show along with other Aberystwyth University MA’s  Rachel Luxton and Alysia Webster, from February 2020. Watch this space for updates!

Spring is the time for new beginnings. Following a trip to see Blencathra I am thinking about my next project – in fact it is an idea from 7 years ago and since then I have sketched the mountain many times and taken hundreds of photographs.  I know why I want to take on this project, but how is a different matter. Seven years of filtering through my brain. What will happen next?