Ele Pack

ELE PACK HOLD ING T H E O C E A N S 7th April - 5th May 2018

ELE PACK HO L DIN G T HE O CEAN S 7th April - 5th May 2018

Join us for the opening on Saturday 7th April from 2-4pm The exhibition continues until 5th May 2018

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E L E PA C K Ele Pack received her degree from Loughborough College of Art. She now lives and works in Brighton. She has exhibited her paintings both nationally, and internationally. Her work has been exhibited by various UK galleries and overseas Using pattern and mark to create rhythm, Pack uses a range of materials; paint, pencil, fabric, collage, metallics, and build up the paintings in a very organic way overlaying layers of paint, mark and collage to build up the pictorial space. This creates glimpses, hidden spaces, things half shown, suggested. Pack uses delicate layers of texture, drawing and colour to create an ambiguous space. The image is then worked and reworked until the image is “found”. Only when a balance and integration is achieved the painting is finished.

“With this series of works I was influenced by the space and light of a recent visit to the mountains of Sequoia and Los Angeles. I also looked at the warmth and emotional weight of Rothko’s colour field series and the lines and wide open spaces of Diebenkorn’s paintings.

I worked on building a painting language that felt meaningful to me, using large swathes of colour to portray emotion and warmth. Using line to create dynamism, movement and energy. A balance and contrast of elegant controlled lines with more primal random markings. A balance of the conscious and subconscious, a contrast of lyrical softness and powerful dynamism.

As always, it is my aim to create cohesive beautiful paintings that are filled with feeling, light, joy and humanity.”

Safe Harbour Mixed Media on Canvas, 40 x 40cm

Into Dusk Mixed Media on Canvas, 31 x 38cm

5000 Miles Away Mixed Media on Canvas, 100 x 100cm

A Poem to the Sea Mixed Media on Canvas, 120 x 100cm

Holding the Wave Mixed Media on Canvas, 33 x 59cm

A Map to You Mixed Media on Canvas, 100 x 100cm

Holding the Oceans Media on Canvas, 100 x 100cm

Pale Diamond Shine Mixed Media on Canvas, 31 x 38cm

A Pale Sky Mixed Media on Canvas, 120 x 100cm

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2018 Jan April May

Josie Eastwood The Little Picture Show “Holding the Ocean”, &Gallery Edinburgh Josie Eastwood Spring Collection

2017 Jan/Feb Feb

Mar Mar May July Aug Sept Oct

Nov Dec

Josie Eastwood by appointment “Of Form and Colour” at The Stratford Gallery Buy Art Fair Manchester ArtDog London York Art Fair AAF Battersea ArtDog London “Contemplation” exhibition Gallery57 Arundel Josie Eastwood Spring Collection Solo show Staithes Gallery Cornwall Contemporary group show Construct, &Gallery Edinburgh Showing a selection of work, White Space Art Devon Gallery 54 Mayfair London, White Space Art AAF Stockholm ArtDog London Josie Eastwood Autumn collection Edinburgh Art Fair, Staithes Gallery Connection, &Gallery Edinburgh White Space Art Winter Collection

2016 Feb

Mar May June Sept Sept Nov Dec

9 commissioned paintings for luxury cruise liner “Ovation of the Seas” in collaboration with Peter Millard ART Consultants London Spring Collection Cornwall Contemporary Studio 106 open studio show Studio 106 Hove Hampstead Affordable Art Fair, ArtDog London Buy Art Fair with ArtDog London Show with Melanie Goemans & Melissa Kiernan at Cornwall Contemporary Edinburgh Art Fair, Staithes Studio Stratford Gallery inaugural show, Stratford- upon-Avon The Little Christmas Show, Josie Eastwood Fine Art

2015 Jan Mar Apr

McAllister Thomas Winter show McAllister Thomas Spring show Chelsea Art Fair. David Stacey Fine Art

2015 cont.

2006

May

AAF and group shows, Fairfax Gallery, Tonbridge Wells Group show, The Bircham Gallery, Norfolk

Jun Aug Sept Sept Oct

Studio 106 Open House Four Knoyle Road Open house Cornwall Contemporary group show Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, Cornwall Contemporary Two-person Show with Alasdair Lindsay, Cornwall Contemporary New York Affordable Art Fair, with ArtDog Exhibiting with Staithes Studio Gallery, Staithes Moniker Art Fair Iaysha Art Consultancy

2014 Four fine art prints published by Rosenstiel’s publishers Group show with Lacy Road Gallery, London Christmas exhibition, McAllister Thomas fine Art, UK “Undercurrents” exhibition, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh Represented by Saatchi Art Studio 106 May Festival open house exhibition Brighton Art Fair Represented by ArTbridge

2002 Affordable Art Fair, with CCA Galleries Battersea, London Chelsea Art Fair with Lena Boyle Fine Art, London

2001 Paperleaf Art Fair, Battersea Art Centre, London Summer Show, Will’s Art Warehouse, Fulham, London Group show, Museum of the Southwest, Midland Texas, U.S.A Group show, The Art Exchange, Nottingham Group show, Foreningen Norden, Gothenburg, Sweden Neo Art, Nottingham Print Showcase Harley Gallery Notts.

2000

2013

Interiors Exhibition, Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold Summer Show, Will’s Art Warehouse, Fulham, London Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London Recent Paintings Castle Museum Nottingham

Represented by Saatchi Art Studio 106 May Festival open house exhibition

1992

2012

Painting Today ‘92, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London Inside and Outside, Ferrers gallery, Staunton Harold, Leics

Brighton Art Fair Studio 106 May Festival open house exhibition

1991

2008 Interiors exhibition, Will’s Art Warehouse, London Spring Affordable Art Fair, Will’s Art Warehouse, Battersea, London Glasgow Art Fair, with Will’s Art Warehouse, Glasgow Bristol Art Fair, with Will’s Art Warehouse, Bristol New York Art Fair, with Will’s Art Warehouse, New York Birmingham Art Fair, with Seascape Gallery Group show, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

2007 Group show The Fairfax Gallery, Tonbridge Wells Will’s Art Warehouse, London AK Wilson Gallery, Harpenden, Herts East Midlands Contemporary Art Auction, Nottingham

Group show, Schwabisch Hall, Germany Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, Islington Graduate Show, Hanover Gallery, Liverpool Painting Today ‘91, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London

AWARDS: 1999 East Midlands Arts New Work & Commission Award 1997 East Midlands Arts Start-Up Grant

PUBLISHING: 2014: Four fine art prints published by Rosenstiel’s publishers 2012 Nine fine art prints published by Rosenstiel’s publishers 2002 Three framed prints published by ‘The Art Group Ltd.’

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