PREVIEW In association with
THE WESSEX ARTS AND CULTURE GUIDE
‘Lemons And Narcissus,’ oil on canvas, 92 x 122cm, Ann Armitage
Ann Armitage and Elsa Taylor 13th-31st May, Monday-Saturday, 9.30am-5pm The Jerram Gallery, Half Moon Street, Sherborne DT9 3LN jerramgallery.com A combination of still lifes and landscapes by two distinguished artists, Ann Armitage and Elsa Taylor, will be on show in a two-man exhibition at The Jerram Gallery this May. Both
artists show a different approach to the subject, making for a colourful, rich and varied experience.
Ann Armitage moved from London down to Cornwall 10
years ago, when she took up painting full time. The visual and
tactile act of painting is a direct response to her environment and
she spends a lot of time simply arranging a still life. Lately, she has introduced more colour into her work and is tending towards an
impression of a flower, rather than being botanically correct. She
never uses paint “straight from the tube.” The paint is applied with palette knives and cloth in layers, which are later scratched into 12 | Sherborne Times | May 2017
to reveal glimpses of the colours underneath. As well as floral, her still life works include fruit, particularly lemons and figs.
Elsa Taylor’s studio is in an old smithy at the edge of the
Cotswolds. Elsa’s landscapes are fairly abstract, but retaining a figurative approach. Though to begin with Elsa works mostly
from nature, the image evolves as she completes the painting in
her studio. Colour is very important and she spends a long time mixing the palette so that all colours are in harmony. The image has to be something that moves her initially – how the light
falls on a single flower, perhaps, or how a building appears on
the landscape, resulting in something a little more mysterious. evolver.org.uk