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his May, Baxters is launching a new exhibition featuring 9 artists and


makers many of whom are new to the gallery. The theme of the show is


Coastline and views of the sea, foreshores & dunes, many local, have been brought to life by Daniel Cole, Lucy Davies and Barbara Peirson. Daniel Cole works at the Old


Bakery studios in Truro, Cornwall. Working mainly in oils, he takes sketches and paintings made in the field back to his studio, and these form the basis of all his paintings. As well as abstracted landscapes, Dan has spent a lifetime painting birds and he is a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Barbara Peirson studied


fine art at Colchester School of Art. After first training as an actor, she has combined a career in theatre and as an artist ever since. Barbara lives in the coastal marshland of Essex, painting from her studio, a stone’s throw from the river that washes in and out with the tide. She has enjoyed discovering a new coast here as has Lucy Davies who is a keen walker of coast paths. The dramatic sea, rugged cliffs and stunning, golden beaches informed Lucy’s collection and provided the reference for her colourful, mixed media paintings. Texture, pattern and colour dominate her artwork and she uses a process of layering acrylic media to create the effect she wants. With a Coastline exhibition,


driftwood had to feature and Liz Toole has created a stunning collection of her bird paintings on wood including her biggest yet at 1.3m wide. She has been keeping her most amazing pieces of wood for this show and it has been drying out for months. She has lightly sanded it so not to take too much of the character of the wood away and then painted her seabirds such as curlews and sanderlings. Gallery favourite Lynn Muir is an


art of being a glassmaker. Based in the Peak District in Derbyshire he has been a full-time maker since 2016. His beautiful work is made in various colour stories and he has created a Sea Shore Spring Tides collection for the exhibition. Catherine Macleod’s work


celebrates the human form, but there is also a strong narrative about journey and looking for direction. The large feet of power and strength and the binoculars peering into the distance, looking, learning, questioning, focusing and searching. Her figures are all hand built out of crank clay and fired high with stoneware glazes. It wouldn’t be a Baxters


Lucy Davies


established maker whose original art training was in illustration. She collects her driftwood from the North Cornwall coast where she lives near Bude. After time and much preparation with the help of machinery, hand tools and paint, it is transformed into wòoden figures varying in many individual characters and situations. Thomas Petit was inspired


by a childhood visit to the Dartington Crystal Factory to watch glassblowing to learn the


exhibition without ceramics and 2 makers will be showing their new collections. Lucy Burley’s work is partly inspired by the still-life paintings of Giorgio Morandi; she strives for the simplicity and quiet conveyed by his pictures of groups of bottles and other vessels. Lucy wants her pots to have the same sense of


being in family groups, related but non-identical. Her work is harmonious in form and colour. Kit Anderson is new to Baxters and her exquisite contemporary ceramics are decorated with her own unique photographic process, allowing her to expose directly onto the ceramic surface, where the image is fired on permanently. She draws on her own original images of nature, people and places, together with sourced archive images, and each piece reveals its own narrative, through the process of making and firing. The exhibition will launch at 6pm on Friday 27th from the 28th


May and online . Liz Toole


Baxters 12 Foss St Dartmouth TQ6 9DR • 01803 83900 baxtersgallery.co.uk


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