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Andrea Ellis in exhibition in Biarritz
Hermione Carline will be presenting a Centenary exhibiton of her mother Nancy Carline's work.
NANCY CARLINE 1909-2004
Art-Atelier
Centenary exhibition
presented by Hermione and Francis Carline
Saturdays & Sundays 14 – 29 November 2009
A celebration of her work
Exhibition published in this month's Time and Leisure magazine. For full exhibition details see the exhibition's page, and contact art-atelier to make appointments.
Andrea's textile and printing classes
Andrea Ellis is now giving two day courses in texile dying and printing from her studio in the South of France, near Bayonne. Please visit her site at www.texperience.fr for further details.
Capturing the Mood of the Moment
Jo Lamiri, The London Word
Growing up in an illustrious family of ‘traditional oil painters’, Hermione Carline was always more interested in pushing art’s boundaries. Now she’s selling her work at a high-profile event in Wandsworth where local artists and designers open their studios to the public.
Carline’s parents Richard and Nancy are represented at Tate Britain, and Sir Stanley Spencer was her uncle. When you come from such a dynastic family, it can be hard to forge your own path, but out of a childhood ‘immersed in art’, Hermione has developed an innovative approach, evident in her most recent work which explores the cultures, moods and contradictions of modern life.
Carline’s lifelong passion for breaking new ground is key to her work. After a BA in fine art at Camberwell School of Art, she did an MA in textile design at the RCA before co-founding a design studio that sold worldwide to fashion houses such as Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin and Ralph Lauren.
Her own work has recently come full circle, from fine art to textiles and back again, merging the two with a renewed absorption in painting using unconventional surfaces.
“I went through a period of transition about six years ago when I started cutting up my textile designs and stitching bits of old and new design together - creating textural montages in a combination of techniques. More recently I have been painting onto hard surfaces such as wood and aluminium with a loose free style of oil painting. I like the resistance and sheen of aluminium which challenges me to use paint in a soft and fluid way. Wood allows for greater absorption of paint, and has a distinctive texture I can exploit.”
Inspired by Paul Klee and contemporary artists such as Marlene Dumas and Fiona Rae, Carline uses a layered, semi-abstract approach in her work, from landscape to urban scenes where enigmatic figures may or may not be present. She is interested in portraying a sense of time, memory and place in her pictures and incorporating a sense of ambiguity. “I am fascinated by the transitory nature of the world we live in, the superficial world of fashion and the evolving ‘ideal’ of the female body.”
Like her father, who was chief examiner of art at Cambridge University, Carline is a passionate advocate of art education. “Having taught in art schools, I knew I had a flair for communication, so when my children were young I set up The Art & Craft Club giving classes from my own home near Wandsworth Common, exploring many of the ideas I had as a child.”
Hermione also set up The Carline Art Group for adults where she teaches a firm grounding in drawing before encouraging students to develop their own ideas. This group will also be showing recent work as part of Wandsworth Artists’ Open house.
Carline founded Art-Atelier in 2007, a group of four diverse artists who adopt a layering approach to their original and innovative art. With around 50 works from £150, Art-Atelier will be showing abstract acrylics informed by science and technology by Phil Dobson, devoré silk-screens referencing early Japanese photography by Andrea Ellis, relief pictures and montages inspired by film and theatre by Madeleine Hunter (Hermione’s daughter) and, of course, Hermione’s work.
Wandsworth Artists’ Open House weekends are to be held on 27th & 28th September and 4th & 5th October.
Details at: www.wandsworth.gov.uk/arts and www.art-atelier.co.uk.
This article can be found on www.thelondonword.com
http://www.timeandleisure.co.uk/WhatsOn/ArtistsOpenHouse/Artists4150/tabid/153/Default.aspx
Listing in Time and Leisure magazine, article in magazine
"Wandsworth Artist's open house is a high profile event, showcasing quality art at affordable prices, when local artists show and sell art work from thier homes and studios. This year will feature around 85 artists studios and over 100 artists. By showing the work in situ, there is no middleman and you can find work to suit your budget. You will find exciting work in every medium from collage to metal work, not the endless pastel-coloured flower paintings that you might expect.
One of the artists, Hermione Caline comes from an established dynasty, and is the niece of one of Britain's most influential 20th century artists, Sie Stanley Spencer. She has founded the Art Artelier, a group of four artists who produce work that is highly original and innovative.
Art atelier are working torwards the Wandsworth Artist's open house weekend, which will take place on two consecutive weekends; 27-28th September, and 4th--5th October, from 11am-6pm. For full details go to www.wandsworth.gov.uk
Madeleine Hunter and Hermione Carline both have work in the annual show at Contemporary Art Projects titled 'Start Your Collection' details of which, and the online catalogue can be found on the www.commentart.com website.
Madeleine is leading east london weekend art walks for commentart.com, details of which can be found on the comment webstite. These walks take people to about 6-10 galleries in one single outing in either the Shorditch/hoxton area or the Vyner street area.