Dylan Lloyd, Head of Art

BA (Falmouth School of Art, PGCE (Wales)

All my work over the last 10 years has been project based. I do not want to feel restricted by a particular style of painting and so allow myself the freedom of moving between abstraction and figuration. Projects are usually theme and time based. They could be created specifically for an exhibition, like the current series, or for galleries that show certain types of my work.

In 2004 I produced a series of abstract paintings for a touring show organised by the Great Atlantic Mapworks Gallery. These paintings followed on from a solo show of figurative paintings from the arboretum at Canford. Each series seems to influence the next but I am always looking to move in fresh new directions.

My current paintings, which are based upon a set of photographs of verbenas in my garden, will be shown in a joint exhibition with fellow art teacher Rob Evans at the Angelus gallery at Winchester College at the end of February. Although the subject matter is the planting and growth of plants and  the depth of field created by photographs, they were inspired by and evoke memories of my family events and environment. 
 

Jay Jones

BA (Falmouth School of Art), PGCE (Roehampton)

Process is as significant in my paintings as influences, inspiration and theme.
I use a variety of sources for my work including scanned images of other paintings and perhaps more prominently images taken from 1950’s and 60’s children's ladybird books such as ‘The Farm' as well as my own photographs of north Cornwall where I grew up.

'dead rabbit'

'deer and two rabbits'

'the poppy field'

'swirling birds'

The choice of imagery in the work is clearly centered on the wildlife and farmland of rural England, a strong visual theme that unifies the collection.  It is, however, a theme that can be variously interpreted. The use of scenes from Ladybird books and similarly the photographs of toy animals create an atmosphere of nostalgia and times past even without a personal connection to the original images. This is perhaps due to the idyllic quality of the imagery evoking landscapes and lifestyles now largely lost.  The blurred boundaries and distorted perspectives of the compositions render the narratives within them non-linear and faded, reflecting the experience of memory and nostalgia common to all of us.

Duncan Wright

BA (Central St Martins), MA (Royal College of Art), PGCE (Exeter)

'Vorstellung' literally from the German translates as an idea or imagination. Schoppenhauer expanded his notion of Vorsetellung to encompass in the inseparability of everything that surrounds us whether an object or an objective. Everything is loaded; our perception of the present is unavoidably clouded by our experience. These artworks are a visual vorstellung, a nostalgic musing for the past.

Andy Kirkby

MA, sculpture, Royal College of Art 1984-87

Fragments of recognition - the work to date has largely been inspired by personal mythologies. Visually reworking fragmented memories from childhood and later life         (sculptural Chinese whispers). I have never settled into one style or material, preferring to work with a range of media and techniques. The concepts of where art can be found have always been as important as the work itself.