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St Mary’s School, Curzon Street, Calne, Wiltshire SN11 0DF 01249 857 200 www.stmaryscalne.org The Calne Foundation Trust. A Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No. 08049046.

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A Celebration of the Art of St Mary’s Calne 3–5 November 2015 20th Century Theatre, Notting Hill

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Front Cover image: Waves, 2015 by Sophia Guinness. Year left 2014

F OREWORD It is a great pleasure to welcome you to our second London Exhibition of Art — from Past Present and Future students of St Mary’s School. We are enormously keen to give our artists the chance to be seen by a wider audience, building on the success of the previous London Exhibition in Cork Street in 2012. I am sure you will agree that the quality and variety of the work on show in this year’s Exhibition more than merits this, and I am very grateful to all those who have made this possible by their help and support – particularly our sponsors. I should also like to thank Jenna Burlingham, our Guest Curator and a former Calne Girl as well as Rebecca Spicer, Director of Art, and all her team.

Creativity has a special place in the life of St Mary’s — in Art, Music and Drama, of course, but also across the whole curriculum. Many schools are struggling to keep up the quality and range of what they offer in the creative arts but I am delighted to say that our girls at St Mary’s are given every opportunity to develop their talents to the full. My team and I see creativity as one of the cornerstones of an all-round education that makes girls innovative, challenging and thoughtful — in fact there couldn’t be a better example of how we go ‘beyond the exam’ to prepare girls for life. It’s no coincidence that a new Art Studio is one of the elements of our Shaping the Future programme to develop the school, as many of you will know.

Art is a great way of building a network and becoming part of a community and the Exhibition shows this in action. And of course art is not only for those who have a special talent — many of the rest of us get great pleasure from learning about art and visiting galleries and artists’ studios — just as we are doing as a community here at the 20th Century Theatre.

So, once again, welcome to the 2015 London Exhibition of Art from St Mary’s Calne. I am genuinely proud of the talent on show this year and I think there is something for everyone across the whole range of different media and styles. I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I have.

D R F E L I C I A K I R K BA (University of Maryland), MA (Brown University), PhD (Brown University) HE A D M I S T R E S S

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I was absolutely delighted when the ‘guest curator’ invitation email arrived in my inbox. As a Calne Girl (1983–1989) now running my own gallery, Jenna Burlingham Fine Art (www.jennaburlingham.com), doing this ties together where I came from and where I am now going.

Past, Present, Future follows on from our hugely successful show in Cork Street — Consider the Lilies, but this time we have pushed the boundaries even further and made the show bigger and better than ever!

It was during the first half of my Lower Sixth year that my career was determined. I was studying French A Level, together with English and History, but soon heard about the wonderful new History of Art teacher.

Mrs Clarke was intoxicating her students with slides showing paintings, sculptures, architecture, town planning, jewellery, furniture and a myriad of other artistic references, all being beamed up on her slide machine in the cocoon of her quiet room. Voltaire and Balzac were duly abandoned and 18th Century architecture, Renaissance and Impressionist Art were all embraced. Everyone’s hope is that they should have a significant teacher from their school years and Mrs Clarke was mine. New to teaching, with years of life experience behind her, Mrs Clarke’s lessons were both our refuge and our inspiration.

Two years later, I embarked on a combined honours History of Art and History degree at Bristol and by the age of 22 I had experience at the Henry Moore Foundation, Bristol City Museum and Sotheby’s under my belt and had landed my dream role as a junior specialist in the Modern British Department at Phillips Auctioneers.

Too many years later and now here I am, surrounded by paintings and with a Modern British art gallery that I hope Mrs Clarke would love.

St Mary’s Calne has a strong and colourful history of artists — many of whom have gone on to achieve worldwide acclaim. Our Artists are from a wide range of disciplines and have varied connections with the school.

A new generation of artists is coming through the school and this is a wonderful opportunity for them to show their work alongside professional artists in a stunning London venue. Our senior girls will show their A level and GCSE work which includes a wide variety of ideas and techniques whilst the younger girls will show work that they have submitted as part of the art competitions entitled Place.

Our wonderful ‘Old Girl’ community has contributed an enormous amount of exceptional pieces of art, sculpture & textiles encompassing portraits, still life, landscapes and abstract. We have also included our very recent leavers showing oils, photographs, charcoal, acrylic as well as film.

Some of our Parents have also provided work photography, stone carving, sculpture and painting. We also have many talented and artistic members of staff and are pleased to show paintings, textiles, photographs and drawings.

However, the show would not be anything without the tremendous hard work and talent of the girls themselves and I would like to thank them for their continual hard work and enthusiasm — I always learn more from them than they ever do from me!

We very much hope that you will enjoy the exhibition and the extremely varied array of artworks we are showing.

JENNA BURLINGHAM GU E S T C U R ATO R

REBECCA SPICER DIRECTOR OF ART

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Elizabeth ASHBRIDGE

Felicity ASHTON

Savernake Limestone, 100cm x 10cm x 10cm

Watercolour, 37cm x 49cm, £350

Slumber in the Arms of Melody, 2015

From her studio, in the Pewsey Vale, and based on her background in visual recognition, art and design, Lisi has developed a workshop creating original and beautiful individually crafted art pieces based on these timeless principles, often with a whimsical or humorous twist.

Working with traditional or classic letter forms, or specially commissioned lettering, her architectural works are true expressions of individuality and personal value. Inspired by themes as diverse as poetry, history, philosophy, science and the landscape, her work makes a dramatic focal point, or a deeply intimate tribute or message.

Lisi has been the Chair of Marlborough Open Studios since 2014 and her company Its Written In Stone is represented by Garden Art Plus, Hungerford and Sticks and Stones, Woodborough. She has been featured in Telegraph Weekend and BBC for providing sealing stones for the new Long Barrow in All Cannings, Wiltshire.

Shades of Autumn, 2015 Year left 1970

Felicity (Lissie) Ashton has been a member of the Society of Floral Painters since 1996 and has exhibited in the UK and abroad. She has been painting flowers in a botanical style since 1991, specialising in watercolour.

“As a member of the Society of Floral Painters I have been influenced by many artists, both professional and amateur. I am fascinated by the detail in floral subjects, which is why I have gone down the botanical route rather than the looser style.” lissie.ashton@brinternet.com

She runs Letter Carving courses. www.ItsWrittenInStone.co.uk

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Nicola B ANNIST E R Harmony IV 2014

Acrylic on paper, 90cm x 70cm

Nicola studied Art and Art History and has been painting and sketching in her spare time for many years. Nicola is a Trustee and on the Board of Directors for the Friends of The Royal Academy of Arts and also runs London media and PR agencies Bannister Blake and Hub & Tink.

“Harmony IV is number 4 in a series of paintings inspired by her children’s summers on the Isle of Wight, where paint is found in abundance and small hands and feet get very involved!” nicky@bannisterblake.com

Nicola B E AT T I E Harmony 2006

Black Walnut, 67cm x 48cm x 34cm, £1,150 Year left 1983

Having specialised in carving in both wood and stone at Art College, Nicola now works mainly in alabaster and plaster which is then cast in bronze. She also makes smaller pieces in stone, bronze and wood for indoors and outside. Rhythm and fluidity are essential to her work which has been exhibited both abroad and widely throughout the UK, regularly in London, including at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and in Cork Street. Her work is held in both public and numerous private collections.

“In my work the emphasis is on clean line and form with minimal detail. This piece is about spatial harmony where solid form and space enhance each other creating a relational dependence.” nicolabeattie@btinternet.com

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Candia B R A D S H AW

DIRECTOR OF ART 2011–2015

Landscapes

Oil on Canvas, 60cm x 80cm

Jo BLACK

MU S I C S E C R E TA RY

Badshahi Mosque Lahore, 2007

Oil on Canvas, 40cm x 50cm, £400

Jo is the Music Secretary at St Mary’s Calne. Prior to working here she was an expatriate, living in developing countries in Africa and Asia with her husband and two daughters. Joanna has a love of creating and designing whilst living in Kampala, Uganda she owned an events design company.

The main focus of Candia’s work is the use of landscape on the borders of Figuration and Abstraction. Her paintings are not only inspired by nature directly but can also be seen as imagined landscapes, places associated with a generalised vision of nature. She paints what is not necessarily there in front of her but what she imagines might be there. Whether these places appear to be real is not relevant as she tries to develop an aesthetic out of the absence of context.

For her, painting is a vital form of expression where she is able to convey how she thinks, feel and interpret the world and also her love of wide open spaces and landscapes which show the passage of time. candiabradshaw@gmail.com

“This was painted whilst I was living in Tehran, Iran taking painting classes with a local Iranian art teacher. The subject Badshahi Mosque was in the old part of the city of Lahore near the fort, where I lived with my family for just under a year.

The image is painted from a photograph found in a booklet produced for expats living there.” joanna.black@stmaryscalne.org

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Bunny BRIGGS

PA TO H E A D M I S T R E S S

Irises

Acrylic on Canvas

Bunny enjoyed Art A Level at school and via local art clubs through various stages of life — she used to only paint/draw small pictures so the challenge was to ‘go big’ on this occasion! Feeling exceptionally rusty, it was especially pleasing to be part of the Staff evening painting classes available in school — no pressure.

“The opportunity to paint has been very therapeutic after work and having the capacity to experiment with different mediums has been a great bonus.” bunny.briggs@stmaryscalne.org

Anna B RO M I L E Y Eva, 2015

Fired Stoneware, 47cm x 40cm, £450

Anna was born in Worcestershire and grew up in its beautiful countryside. Leaving school to work in a Christian charity enabled her to explore a variety of cultures and contexts both at home and abroad: de-lousing children on the rubbish dumps of Mexico City, working with drug addicts in Copenhagen or youth work in Liverpool.

Since obtaining a first class honours degree in Art and Design in 1998, Anna has continued to develop her art in figurative sculpture (using clay, cement fondue and bronze) and ceramics, especially throwing in porcelain. Anna is a wife and mother of four and is currently a member of Bath Artists Sculpture Group.

“I am interested in people and the human form, currently exploring possible responses to narrative, either from those involved or simply my own personal response”. annabromiley@gmail.com 12

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Arabella BROOKE

Woman and Dove II, 2014

Bronze, 15cm x 10cm x 70cm, £1,800 Year left 1991

Arabella graduated from Oxford University in 1995 and spent the next six years working as a fund manager for a global investment bank. She was never comfortable in this role, and never stopped looking for different ways to represent the world. Eventually in 2001, with hardly a backward glance, she left a promising career in the City to pursue the challenge of following her first love, sculpture. She studied figurative sculpture at The Art Academy in Southwark, from where she graduated with distinction in 2004. Her original talent and the unique quality of her work was recognised by receiving an invitation on graduation to stay on as a resident artist and teacher, a role she accepted for a further three years. Her sculptures can now be found in many private collections around the world.

“My work is figurative and based on observation, mostly recorded in sketch books, which I carry around with me at all times, but also on scraps of paper, receipts, the backs of envelopes. This recording, often only a scribbled line, or suggestion of a form, is the starting point for a long process of development in the studio, where their components get rearranged and refigured, until they take on a new and distinct identity of their own.” arabellabrooke@yahoo.co.uk 14

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Elena C A R R

Standing Woman 2, 2014

Bronze, 53cm x 14cm x 12cm, £2,500 Year left 1986

Between 1997–2000 Elena attended City and Guilds of London School of Art.

She has exhibited at The Bankside Gallery, London, The Mall Galleries, London, The Arndean Gallery, London and has been awarded The de Laszlo Foundation Award for Portraiture. She was Joint Winner of the Madame Tussaud’s Award for Sculpture.

Elena works in bronze, ceramic and on paper. She is interested in the human form and its abstract qualities. ellicarr@hotmail.com

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Vanessa BURTON PATISSE R I E C H E F

Flowers

Acrylic on Canvas, 76cm x 120cm

Vanessa loved art at school but had little opportunity to continue with it when she left. She pursued a career as a chef and making beautiful and delicious cakes. Last year (after a break of 33 years) she joined a group of fellow staff at St Mary’s and began to paint again. She thoroughly enjoyed the experience and will now continue to pursue painting as an interest.

Christina C A S E M E N T Butterflies, 2014

Egg Tempura, 25cm x 27cm, £170 Year left 1950

A professional tile designer and painter for 30 years, Christina now teaches the techniques of this and painting all kinds of subjects including life drawing and exploring egg tempura.

She is a member and an exhibitor at many artistic societies.

“I have found I particularly enjoy teaching and hope to continue painting and drawing as long as my eye sight lasts!” christinaart@aol.com

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Emily CHAFFER Dancer 1,2,3

Lino Prints, 23cm x 36cm, each framed Year left 2014

Emily Chaffer left St Mary's Calne in 2014 and after completing a Foundation in Art at Leeds College of Art, she decided to stay on there to do a degree in illustration. She specialised in portraits for her A level and has received several commissions. She can be contacted at echaffer0@gmail.com.

Sarah COLE Poppies, 2015

Mixed media with newspaper, tissue paper, bleach, ink, 35cm x 25cm Year left 1983

Sarah is a practising artist and art educator with over 25 years’ experience. She has worked with children of all ages; as a teacher and facilitator of workshops and collaborative projects such as The Big Draw. She has worked as a trainer for art teachers and a tutor of adult education. She now works on a freelance basis, running courses around her kitchen table and finally getting to do some of her own art after far too long!

“My current work is inspired by the natural world, mainly found in my back garden! I love to experiment with different materials and have recently been trying out combinations of surfaces and drawing materials, a process I have thoroughly enjoyed.” sarah@thegingerbreadtree.co.uk

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Jessica CONWAY Nude with Hat, 2014

Acrylic ink and charcoal on paper, 85cm x 60cm, £650 Year left 1989

Jessica has been drawing the figure for more than 25 years. As a child she was inspired by the work of Toulouse Lautrec, Egon Schiele and her mother Kathy Montgomery, a talented abstract painter. Jessica has only recently been able to turn more attention to her artwork — her interior design career and motherhood having taken priority in recent years. She has followed courses at Edinburgh College of Art, Central St Martins, the Wedhampton Art Research Centre under the tuition of Robin Child and artist Bobby Gill at her studio in Notting Hill. Jessica lives in Queens Park, North West London with her husband and two children. Jessica is fascinated by the expression of the human form. She enjoys exploring different ways of capturing both the strength and the sensitivity within a pose. She enjoys using mixed media, working with inks, acrylic and charcoal to create bold yet sensitive works.

Alan C OW L E Y Groyne, 2013

Photographic print, 80cm x 60cm, £800

Alan has been taking photographs for much of his life but until recently work has got in the way.

Having now retired from cardiology and no longer taking grainy X-ray images of peoples’ hearts he would like to think he has moved seamlessly onto fine art photography.

He passionately believes in the importance of light which is evident in all his landscape images. This unshakeable belief is only matched by his meticulous attention to detail presenting his photographs including careful selection of fine art papers for the prints and style of mounting. www.alancowleyfineart.com

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Sarah C O S B Y Katherine COWTAN Inchcailloch. Spring, 2014

Oil paint on board, 54cm x 54cm, £725 Year left 1980

Katherine graduated in 1985 with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Textile Design from West Surrey College of Art and Design, and then in 1987 with an MA in Woven Textile Design from the Royal College of Art. She worked as a freelance textile designer for 15 years, until she moved with her family to rural Stirlingshire in Scotland, and has been inspired by the local countryside ever since.

Since starting to work as an artist, she has had her work included in group exhibitions in local galleries, held a successful solo show this summer, and has started taking commissions.

“My paintings are an interpretation of the local natural landscapes. I am drawn to paint hills, paths, trees and snow, and explore the infinitely varied colours, textures, lighting and moods, and the balance of contrasts within them.” www.katherinecowtan.co.uk

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Bobbing Ducks, 2012

Oil on canvas, 58cm x 83.5cm, £1,275 Year left 2004

Born in Dublin and raised in Wiltshire. Sarah studied Art History at the University of St Andrews and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She trained in the classical tradition at The Florence Academy of Art and at The London Atelier of Representational Art. After working in auction houses and with a dealership, she is now a full-time commissioned portrait artist of people, horses and dogs in oils and charcoal. My other subjects are poultry, landscapes and horses in pasture. Exhibitions include The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, London; The David Shepherd Foundation’s Wildlife Artist Competition, London; Marlborough Open Studios. In the 2004 Society of All Artists international competition she was awarded Artist of the Year, Young Artist of the Year and Best Portrait, Figure or Animal of the Year.

“My aim is capture the subject’s character. Creating an accurate likeness and natural gesture through technique is rewarding – to see the subject’s presence emerge and become defined. I use the classical tradition methods of sight-size observation.” sarahcosby@live.co.uk

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Cecilia DALRYMPLE

Nicholas DAV I E S

Acrylic, 122cm x 61cm, £1,280

Oil on hardboard, 92cm x 70cm

Horses in the rain, 2012 Year left 1979

After growing up in Kenya and Gloucestershire, surrounded by ponies and dogs, Cecilia developed a natural appreciation of shape and form and in spite of no formal training she has developed some very individual styles and techniques in her art. Cecilia found inspiration while travelling the world and the subjects committed to canvas bear witness to this. Often shades of Africa or India are found alongside an English landscape. Cecilia is married with one son and lives on a farm in New Zealand. She is confined to a wheelchair following a horse riding accident.

Columbus discovers the New World Nick Davies has served as a soldier since 1980 from as far afield as the Middle East to the Falkland Islands and rediscovered his interest in art in the early 1990s. Currently living in Gloucester, he is largely self-taught, and his subjects include landscapes, portraits and military scenes in oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastel. nickroydavies@hotmail.com

“My love of animals makes them my favourite subject. I try to capture their mood.” cecilia@waitatapia.co.nz

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Phoebe DICKINSON Katie, 2015

Louise D I G G L E

Year left 2003

Pastel on card, 38cm x 44cm, £480

Oil on canvas, 60cm x 80cm Phoebe Dickinson was born in London in 1984. Growing up surrounded by the arts, she was drawing from the moment she could hold a pencil and was the Sixth Form Art Scholar at St Mary’s Calne before leaving for training at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence for two and a half years. Always keen to continue developing her own artistic language, she has studied at the Lavender Hill studios for one day a week since returning to the UK nine years ago. She also practises etching at The Prince’s Drawing School and Heatherly’s.

She has held three successful solo shows, which she curated personally. In 2013 she was selected to appear on the Sky Arts program ‘Portrait artist of the year’ produced in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery. She has exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition for two consecutive years; in 2015 showing her portrait of Carson from Downton Abbey which is part of an exciting series of painting commissions documenting the making of the iconic ITV series. She is currently working towards her next solo show. phoebe@phoebedickinson.com

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Piccadilly. Early Morning Light, 2013 Year left 1984

“We are in a state of continuous flux and motion; nothing stays the same.”

Louise’s work is primarily concerned with the transient moment – the ever changing colour, light, weather and, above all, the sense of being in one place. She always works on the spot, mainly in pastel which suits the fleeting passage of time.

Louise studied at the City and Guilds and CCAT and exhibits regularly with Medici Gallery, London, Surface ICA, Moorhead Fine Art, Bruton and at Wimbledon Art Studios where she has a studio.

Current projects include iconic London and the South of France. She is a council member of both The Small Paintings Group and the Chelsea Art Society. www.louisediggle.co.uk

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Arabella DORMAN

Grace E R S K I N E C RU M

Oil on canvas, 76cm x 132cm, £12,000

Mixed, 75cm x 135cm, £1,175

Struggle to Survive, 2014 Year left 1993

Born in the UK, artist Arabella Dorman has gained an international reputation as both a portrait painter and war artist. Her paintings hang in public institutions and private collections around the world.

Arabella paints portrait commissions from her studio in Chelsea, London, while her military pieces are drawn from first-hand experience of working with British Forces in Southern Iraq (2006) and Afghanistan (2009–2014).

Arabella's recent body of work from Afghanistan is a response to the unfolding narrative that she witnessed during several journeys to the country over a period of five years, both as an embedded war artist and an independent traveller. This critically acclaimed exhibition reached 700 million people through media print & broadcast, raising over £30,000 for charities Afghanaid and Walking with the Wounded.

Faces, 2014/15 Year left 2008

Grace was born in Wiltshire and now lives and works in London where she has a studio in North Acton.

“I am a Fine Art graduate from Leeds College of Art. My focus is on sculpture of the human form. I aim to challenge the viewer through the use of space, material, form and their relationship with the body; I find these the most intriguing aspects of art. With these works, I have experimented with a new technique and style. I wanted to create a selfportrait as I had never done one. This led me to making portraits of others, all having elements of their character reflected through the material.” grace.e.crum@gmail.com

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Siân EVANS

TEACHER OF ART

Derelict

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Alice EDGEDALE Waiter’s Dream, 2015

Oil on Canvas, 75cm x 75cm Year left 2013

Alice is currently in her second year at Exeter University studying Geography and takes commissions of horses and dogs in her spare time.

Siân Evans studied Art and Design at Birmingham Institute, where she developed an aptitude for photography. Since graduating university she has pursued her specific interest in documenting the world around her though digital imagery. Her recent expedition to Poland revealed a rich world of contrast, buildings which in the past had housed consequential governmental departments have been found to be superfluous in a relinquished state which has led to dilapidation and dereliction.

This trip has awoken a desire to capture the demise of what once were integral buildings to industry or history and have now been discarded, often reflecting the purpose they housed.

This series of images were taken at RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire, initially opened as an aerodrome during WW1 and converted in 1936 into a Radio and Radar training school and playing a vital part in both World Wars. Since being closed in the 1960s, RAF Yatesbury has been abandoned. These photographs reveal a haunting and melancholy atmosphere, a stark contrast in comparison to the site’s rich history. siane07@hotmail.co.uk

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Nicola FITZGERALD Tribute x 453, 2015

“….and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun…”

Oil paint on fabriano paper, 165cm x 143cm, POA Year left 1999

Having recently completed a UAL foundation diploma in art and design, Nicola continues to explore her interests in figurative and traditional means of artistic expression, alongside more experimental printmaking techniques. She also remains drawn towards the role and purpose of art in conflict. In the future, she hopes to be able to build upon her background experience in teaching to become increasingly involved in the world of art education.

“Through this piece, I hope to examine the human cost of conflict by exploring the visual commemoration (in this case, a star-scape) of those who have given up their lives in the name of their country – who have made the ultimate sacrifice. In this work, I have focused upon members of the British and Commonwealth Armed Services involved in the Afghanistan campaign of 2001–2014.” fishernj@hotmail.com 32

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Natasha F O R M O S A Peacock

Oil on Canvas

Born in 1959 in the Ukraine, Natasha Formosa began studying art at an early age, first at the esteemed Moscow National Institute of Art, and later at the Ukrainian Department of Culture as a graphic designer, where she was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for her achievements.

As Formosa went on to live and work in the former Soviet Union, the majority of her artwork served as a form of communist propaganda, as was required by the restrictive times. Unfortunately, these works have since been destroyed, along with many other relics of that era. Parallel to this, however, Formosa worked for the Department of Education, designing and creating stands, murals, posters and visual aids for public institutions. Remarkably, many of these impressive murals survived the Perestroika, and can be seen in hospitals and schools today.

By the end of the 1990’s, Formosa moved to the UK, where she found new inspiration, pursuing her passion for painting in a climate that allowed for unfettered creative expression. Delving into several forms of art, Formosa also illustrated a children’s book called Potato Boy, written by Kristina Rate, which was published in the UK in 2005.

Formosa’s works captivate the escapist within us, drawing the viewer into the surreal; yet beneath the fantastical surface, a reality unfolds that engages her audience, disrupting the dream world her work initially evokes. natashakum@hotmail.com

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Sophia G U I N N E S S Dr Stan FOWLER FRSA H E A D O F C H E M I S T RY

Study number 17 — Sparkling Space

Acrylic on Canvas with Glitter, 40cm x 30cm

Dr Stan Fowler’s works focus on the idea of entropy and disorder in systems from the nanometre to the geopolitical which are coupled to studies of the relative motion of systems that are changed by the act of observing them. This work, Study Number 17, is an exploration into the use of reflective pigments in creating a work that changes depending on the relative positions of the observer and the light sources; without an observer the piece is static and unchanging but, by the act of walking past the piece, the observer sees that the reflective properties of the work changes.

Waves, 2015

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140cm x 200cm Year left 2014

Sophia’s paintings explore the qualities of liquid paint. She is experimenting with the dramatic nature of the sea encompassing the power of nature in the flow of the mark on canvas. Her colours reflect the ever-changing life of the ocean.

Having left Calne in 2014 Sophia took a gap year travelling the world and is now studying History of Art and French at Edinburgh University. sophiaguinness@gmail.com

Stan dances tango and is learning to swim, but not simultaneously for obvious reasons and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2015. sfowler@stmaryscalne.org

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Saffron GUY

Sarah H O B L E Y

White Stoneware Clay, 44cm x 18cm x 25cm deep

Sawdust-fired stoneware, 20cm x 20cm, £120

Sea Urchins, 2015

£200 for the pair (£125 for the large / £90 for the small)

Saffron, originally a chemist and biochemist, started doing ceramics when her oldest daughter (now in LV at St Mary's) was a year old. Although, she experimented with different clays and different methods of making now Saffron mainly works with stoneware clay. Her pots are hand built then fired in a reduction kiln using a muted colour palette.

“I take inspiration for my pieces from the natural world. This pair of hand-built vessels are part of a series where the starting point is sea flora and fauna. My pots tend to be decorative rather than functional. I am always striving for a satisfying form.” ser_guy@hotmail.com

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Hampshire Pot, 2014 Year left 1975

Sarah Hobley studied at the Courtauld Institute and has worked with a variety of artists, sculptors and potters. She now lives in Hampshire and creates ceramic portraits and pots.

This pot was inspired by the flint downland of North Hampshire. It is a coil pot in a white stoneware clay, which is first fired in an electric kiln and then in a sawdust kiln to produce the unpredictable variations in colour. sarahhobley@hotmail.com

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Geoffrey HUMPHRIES

Girl in Yellow, Venice Studio, 2015

Oil on Canvas, 60cm x 50cm, unframed, £4,000

Geoffrey Humphries is the most renowned figurative painter living and working in Venice today. He is as famous for his bravura sense of colour as he is for the sensual nuance of his line. Few painters of his generation use colour as boldly and brilliantly, and after fifty years in Venice, he has established an international reputation as a master of life drawing, painting, and portraiture as well as Venetian watercolour scenes.Geoffrey was born in Amersham in 1945, and attended the High Wycombe School of Art, the London College of Printing, and the Chelsea School of Art. In 1963 he visited Italy for the first time, and took his degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, where he received highest honours in 1974. After studying in Rome and Florence, he moved to Venice in 1966, where he still lives and works today. His famous studio overlooking the Giudecca Canal is a well-known centre for music and the arts. He has taught life drawing on the John Hall course in Venice for over fifty years, and is also an accomplished blues guitarist.

He has shown at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Portrait Society, and is a Guest Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. His works can be found in private and public collections throughout Europe and North America.

He is represented by Holly Snapp Gallery.

Nicola L L E W E L LY N

Colour Leaf — Granada W.I., 2011 Watercolour, 43cm x 33cm Year left 1973

Nicky and her husband Arthur have lived in Somerset for 25 years where she runs a busy floral design and decorating business. When not pre-occupied with that, their daughter, their son and his family; the garden and two dogs, Nicky loves to dabble with paints, albeit at a very amateur level and hopes to do much more in the future.

“I was inspired to paint this croton (codiaeum variegata) leaf on the island of Grenada. I was amazed by the almost surreal brightness of the garden and that each leaf on this plant was so differently and randomly patterned and coloured.” info@nickyllewellynflowers.co.uk

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Tara ILLINGWORTH Half, 2000

Bronze, 14cm x 28cm x 12.5cm, £1,500

Born in the UK, Tara was awarded a BA in Fine Art Sculpture at Winchester School of Art, with extended study in Europe & USA. Tara travelled throughout SE Asia and settled for several years in Western Australia, where she worked at the J-Shed studio, Fremantle, stone carving and bronze casting.

Continuing to divide her time between Australia & the UK (based at Studio Voltaire) Tara worked on public & private commission works and was employed in residential and educational projects. She has been living in Singapore since 2009.

“My work is an extension of the natural world I experience around me. Plants, seeds, corals and insects, delicate often fragile, intrigue and fascinate me, offering a path to unveil different shapes and patterns. With these re-configured images, I create new lines and forms in my sculptures providing the viewer with curiosity and contemplation.” www.taraillingworthsculpture.com

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Endellion LY C E T T- G R E E N Mother and Child, 2014

Oils, sand, charcoal and gold leaf, 137cm x 168cm, POA Year left 1985

Endellion has had a career spanning 25 years and has shown at galleries ranging from the prestigious Lefevre Gallery, to Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and now Browse & Darby, London. Her work hangs at Chatsworth House, NatWest, St Thomas's Hospital (London), Odey Asset Management, Arcadia Group and is in numerous private collections at home and abroad.

“I have been working in the realm of the abstract for a number of years now but my devotion to the current body of work came about as my mother was dying from pancreatic cancer in early 2014. I was moved to create this piece as she came to the end of her life and finally passed away in August of 2014. I used sand from our favourite beach in Cornwall, Daymer Bay and gold leaf as an expression of precious moments together, and charcoal to speak about the more harrowing moments. The blue was inspired by religious paintings such as The Wilton Diptych (National Gallery, London) but on another note references Yves Klein Blue…the title encompasses not only my relationship with my mother but our collective experience.” taniahc@me.com

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Jessica M E N D O Z A

Hare I £375 150cm x 100cm, Hare II £200 70 x 40cm Hare III £200 70cm x 40cm Oil on Canvas Year left 2014

Having left St Mary’s Calne in 2015, Jessica is now concentrating on her riding. Following in the footsteps of other top riders, Jessica’s career started on the international pony circuit where she has won numerous titles and is acknowledged as one of the leading young female show jumping riders in Europe.

Her ultimate goal is to ride in the 2016 Olympics. www.jessicamendoza.co.uk

Miranda M O N TAG U

Maquette for Light Relief 1, 2014

Copper wire on board, 36cm x 36cm Year left 1987

Miranda qualified as an architect in 2000. Since then she has worked on a number of projects where materials and light play a key role. miranda@monagu.biz

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Trudy M O N T G O M E RY Patricia MONTALVO

Journey through the desert, 2014

Oil on canvas, 55cm x 46cm, £650 Year left 2013

Patricia was born in 1999 in Madrid, Spain. She started painting at school before the age of 10 and continues to attend art courses outside of her school art lessons. In July this year she attended a two week course at Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts.

“Art is all around us. Images and design play an important role in our daily communication. Sometimes, it is easier for me to use art to express myself rather than words.

In this painting I tried to summarise two forces that guide our life: hard work on one hand and calm on the other hand. Hard work makes you push yourself harder in everything you do, but at the same time, calm to meditate on your goals and what surrounds you. I very much like the ‘open space’ of the painting and the way the colours work together.”

Tutti Frutti Fields, 2015

Oil and acrylic on board, 38cm x 51cm, £1,250 Year left 1986

Trudy Montgomery’s tendency towards enormous scale and pure, bold colour is heavily influenced by the light and space of California, where she lived for 14 years. Trudy draws inspiration from her travels, both inner and outer, and sees her work as inner landscapes or ‘dreamscapes’. Joyful and uplifting, her paintings portray an active vitality and the freedom of spirit. Trudy’s work has been exhibited internationally including in the UK, Germany, India and California and she is represented by galleries in London and Los Angeles.

“Georgia O’Keefe, an American artist (1887–1986), said that “the abstract is often the purest form for me to express the inexpressible.” For me, this holds true. Abstraction defies our often compulsive urge to identify, label and describe everything we see in an attempt to ‘know’ it and thereby eliminate uncertainty. And yet, life is ultimately unknowable — and its very mystery is what makes it so magical. As an abstract painter I dwell in a place of not knowing, which I experience as freedom. Working from a meditative state of action, I draw on inner vision and the expressive possibilities of paint to convey what is, so often, inaccessible via words.” www.trudymontgomery.com

irene.hernandez@impulsacapital.com

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Louise NEWMAN

Sophie N E W N H A M

Watercolour, 33cm x 30cm

Oils on linen, 76cm x 76cm, £1,100

Camellia ‘La Belle France, 2015 Year left 1977

After leaving St Mary’s, Louise worked as a ceramic restorer and then studied History of Art. She became a specialist on European Ceramics and worked at Christie’s in the 1990s, where she continues to work as a consultant. Following a move to Devon and the birth of her four children she felt she needed a complete outlet so about five years ago she took up botanical painting.

“I enjoy minutely observing fruit and flower specimens and the challenge of trying to represent them accurately and in detail.” newman502@btinternet.com

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Hellebores, 2015 Year left 1994

Sophie has been working as an artist for over eight years, having studied drawing at the Prince’s Drawing School and portraiture at the Heatherley School of Art in her early 20s. Her main focus has been her flower paintings, sold through commissions as well as various art galleries and fairs in London. She is currently working on a series of Iris paintings, illustrating a children’s book and finishing her final project of an interior design diploma. Recent work has included drawings for commercial clients.

“My work has evolved naturally throughout my career as an artist, mainly as a result of commissions, which have taken me in different directions, but also as my eye for colour and tone has matured. I have recently introduced more depth into my work although these changes never seem to be conscious.” mail@sophienewnham.com

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Jessica O’GRADY

Katie PA R K E R

Oil on canvas, 120cm x 150cm, £1,200

Etching and Aquatint, 41cm x 52cm

Cow No. 2, 2015 Year left 2014

Having completed her schooling at St Mary’s Calne where she held the position of Art Scholar, Jess has been pursuing a career in art, photography and film. After deciding against taking up her place at City and Guilds of London Art School, Jess has been travelling to find the most inspiring spots the world has to offer whilst keeping her passion for art alive by taking commissions and painting for exhibitions. Jess has enjoyed considerable success with her works, predominantly of cows, often not having a single piece spare to sell. Jess would be delighted to take commissions and is often selling work, so please contact her for more information. jessogrady1@gmail.com

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Night Owl, 2013

After several years of doing portrait photography commissions, Katie began studying Etching and Printmaking at the Putney School of Art in London in 2010. She still attends classes there and uses the studio to work on her own private prints as well as etching commissions of people's pets, especially dogs and cats. For details please visit www.katherineparker.co.uk.

“This etching of Night Owl is one of my particular favourites. The etching plate underwent a number of processes: hard ground etching, aquatint as well as soft ground using small leaves and catkins to produce pattern. Hopefully this is a subject matter that appeals to children as well as adults.” katherineparker1@hotmail.com

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Mary Clare PARNELL

Stephanie P F I S T E R

Water soluble mono print, 50cm x 40cm

Hand woven textiles

Printmaking is best process; mistakes are accepted and life begins.

Stephanie is a Woven Textile Designer making contemporary hand woven interior products and fashion accessories. She trained at Winchester School of Art, specialising in woven textiles. During this period she experimented extensively with techniques and weaving processes. Her inspiration is varied and the ideas are developed through a combination of research, observational drawing, photographs and windings.

“What Angel?”, 2000 Year left 1982

Printers live when they let go, trust the universe to tweak at misconceptions, expectations and from under the print felt pops??? What !!

“I am just the author, the artist was on another dimension channelling the design.” maryclare.parnell@gmail.com

ART TECHNICIAN

Worsted Wool

Stephanie simply loves the practice and the endless possibilities it allows her for experimentation, she develops her ideas on a 24 shaft Dobby Loom. Once the loom is set up it can then take a day to weave off a metre of cloth depending on its design. The resulting products are completely unique.

Stephanie is happy to provide a custom design service, please contact her directly though her website www.stephaniepfister.com or by email at steph.pfister@googlemail.com.

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Susan RO S K I L L Lake Garda, 2012

Mixed media, 91cm x 121cm

Anna REDWOOD What Now ?, 2013

Mixed media, 91cm x 121cm

Born 1967 Anna spent much of her childhood living abroad. She studied at Newcastle College of Art followed by Cecil Graves and now lives in Somerset with her husband and five children.

Year left 1953

Susan gave up painting at Calne after the UIV to make more time for music and did not touch a paintbrush again until 1995.

“I do not regard myself as an artist — I just enjoy painting (largely in watercolours) and particularly rather moody scenes and water.” jandsroskill@newtoncommon.com

She became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1998, exhibiting at The Royal Academy, solo/group exhibitions in London, Paris, Singapore, NYC and winning many awards. In 2013 she spent a month in Afghanistan as official war artist to 7th Armoured Brigade, The Desert Rats. Recording daily life, going out on foot patrols and building a giant rat out of war damaged vehicles. In 2015 she was commissioned to paint portraits of ‘the few’ Battle of Britain Pilots for the 75th Anniversary. Anna has work in many public and private collections.

“Being an artist is a journey, following and exploring what interests you on a quest for truth. The importance of feeling, thought and mark combined with a celebration of paint. The colour and texture created with a single brush never cease to amaze and excite me.” annaredwood@yahoo.com

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Mary SEYMOUR

Betty S I M S - H I L D I T C H

Etching with aquatint, 26cm x 26cm

Oil on canvas, 120cm x 90cm, £350 each

Three Pears, 2014 Year left 1970

After Calne, Mary spent four years at Chelsea School of Art, doing a Foundation Course and then studying for a degree in Graphic Design. She worked as a book designer and illustrator before concentrating on etching. In 2008 she did a degree in Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Mary has exhibited in twoperson and group exhibitions around East Anglia and in London, including the RA Summer Exhibition. She is a member of Sudbourne Park Printmakers and exhibits with them twice a year in Suffolk.

“Etching is very well-suited to someone like me who loves the drawn line. I find the act of drawing with an etching needle on a metal plate, through the prepared wax ground, a delicious experience!”

Lady in a Veil 1 & 2, 2011 Year left 2011

Betty Sims-Hilditch completed her art foundation at ESAG Penninghen in Paris before going on to study at University of the Arts, London. She is now pursuing a career in photography and filmmaking. betty@neptune.com

tandmseymour@btinternet.com

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Daisy SIMS-HILDITC H

Alexandra S L AT E R

Oil on canvas, 70cm x100cm, £1,200

Cotton sewn quilt, 180cm x 180cm

Alessandra, 2015 Year left 2010

Daisy is in her final year of studies at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence. Here she is being trained in sightsize portraiture, following the tradition of masters such as Van Dyke, Velasquez and Sargent. In keeping with this approach Daisy’s portraits are painted to the scale of life, under natural light and always directly from the sitter.

Upon leaving Calne her portrait Paul was selected for exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London and shortly afterwards a portrait of her father was sold in auction in aid of the Prince’s Trust.

Daisy is a keen landscape painter and spends her time outside the studio working en plein air. Recently Daisy spent time painting in Venice where she was working alongside Ken Howard RA. daisy@neptune.com

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Amsterdam Quilt, 2010 Year left 1991

Alexandra learnt basic sewing skills, how to use a sewing machine and follow a dress pattern from her mother (also a Calne Girl, Roz Reece neé Roberts), when she was in MIV at Calne.

“Based on Little Amsterdam pattern and instructions by North Sea Quilters, our sewing group was a group of 12 mothers from the international School of Amsterdam. We met weekly and the quilt took over one year to complete.

My Amsterdam quilt is a very personal souvenir of our time in The Netherlands. The details I see in the individual houses remind me of the friends I made amongst the International community. The finished quilt shows that those MIV sewing lessons in Gabriel Common Room with Mrs Robinson weren’t entirely wasted!” alexandraslater07@gmail.com

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Sophie SOAR

Beetle S P I C E R

Oil on canvas, 152cm x 119cm

Year left 2010

Cousins, 2015

Year left 2013

Sophie is a second-year English Literature student at the University of Manchester. She studied art for A Level, achieving an A grade. Whilst primarily interested in pursuing a career in journalism, she has continued to paint commissions as a source of income during her time at University, with the added benefit of continuing a hobby she loves.

“This painting is an example of my work as an oil portraiture artist. I use a palette knife to give an interesting texture to the paint. I input my creative interpretation but also work closely with my clients to ensure complete satisfaction.”

Bespoke Milliner

Sophia graduated in 2015 from the University of Warwick having studied Ancient History and Classical Archaeology. She is now training at the British School of Millinery to set up her own business to make bespoke hats. She will consult on style and make hats to specific requirements. beetle_123@hotmail.co.uk

soarsophie@gmail.com

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Rebecca SPICER DIRECTOR OF ART

Founders’ Day Pledge Pigeon Post

Charcoal and Graphite on Paper, 95cm x 33cm, £250

Exploring the world around us is a key subject for artists.

Rebecca is currently investigating the environment through considering the effect on the five senses and our personal perception of the world. She has been looking and recording direct from life; making a collection of recordings of sound, touch, smell and taste as well as exploring ‘blind’ drawings from people and places during the course of everyday events. These drawings are developed on a larger scale from the very quick studies made during Founders’ Day celebrations at St Mary’s this summer and during a Sixth Form visit to the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. They are light hearted recordings of character.

Rebecca is studying for an MA Fine Art in Drawing for Fine Art Practice and writing on the subject of Sense and Sensibility and our perception of artistic creativity; she is Director of Art. minalwoodlands@icloud.com

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Annabelle S T E V E N S Juliet’s Flowers, 2012

Oil on canvas, 101cm x 76cm, £500 Year left 1988

Annabelle studied at Goldsmiths College and since then has been exhibiting as well as taking private commissions. Some of her more recent exhibitions include: Rose Theatre, 2009; Consider The Lilies, Cork Street, 2012; What Is The Point, Adam Street Gallery, 2013; What Is The Point Christmas Exhibition, Notting Hill, 2014. She lives and works in Hackney, East London.

“I love finding the beauty in the seemingly conventional or mundane. A dead flower, a dull grey seascape or the reflection of light through glass. An odd viewpoint can often bring a sense of abstraction to my subject.” annabelle.stevens@mac.com

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Margaret TATTON-BROWN

Katie T U R N E R

Clay, 19cm x 14cm, £70

Oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm

Apple green pot, 2015 Year left 1967

After leaving Calne Margaret studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and then went on to teach. Part of her teaching included a history of ceramics course at Croydon College. This was a wonderful opportunity for shared discovery and it was then that she found her style. She particularly enjoys making large plates for festive occasions. One of them can be seen in the American book ‘500 Plates & Chargers’ and another in ‘500 Prints on Clay’. Inspiration comes to Margaret as she sits in her garden watching insects in the sunshine.

“All my pots are thrown on the wheel. Some are altered to give a softness to the form. This pot was glazed in ash from an apple tree and fired to 1,260 degrees.” mtattonbrown@aol.com

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From Borth, November, 2010 Year left 1990

Katie studied for a BA in Fine Art at The City and Guilds of London Art School. She graduated in 1994 and lives & works in South London. Katie has exhibited her work in exhibitions including The Conningsby Gallery, The Mernier Chocolate Factory and various open studios in London, Hampshire and Suffolk.

“My inspiration is taken from the different textures and tonal contrast both in landscapes and seascapes. I work primarily in oils on canvas but also with watercolours and printmaking.” kt_turner@hotmail.com

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Dr Penny WICKSON

HEAD OF HISTORY OF A RT

Handle with care Rose Fingered Dawn Troppo Bella

John WAT L I N G

A significant part of Penny’s doctoral studies in History of Art involved engagement with Semiotics — the branch of critical theory which deals with the study of signs. She is particularly inspired by the work of C.S Peirce and Roland Barthes and the opportunities that their models offered for the interpretation of motifs, deeply embedded in our culture, as polyvalent carriers of multiple and contradictory meanings.

With this theoretical background in mind and stimulated by Penny’s MA in English Literature at the University of Bristol, she became increasingly fascinated by the symbol of the rose — simultaneously flower of Venus the goddess of love and emblem of the Virgin Mary with its origins in a language of flowers that can be traced back to the courtly romances of Medieval Europe and the poetry of Antiquity.

John has been the joint owner of Watling Goldsmiths in Lacock Wiltshire for over 25 years. Having trained as a goldsmith and diamond mounter at the age of 16, he still derives great pleasure from creating beautiful jewellery over 30 years later.

Photographs, 32cm x 42cm

Treat Yourself, 2015

Photograph, 180cm x 50cm

watling.family@yahoo.co.uk

Operating in the realist tradition of Courbet and O’Keefe whilst drawing on the Surrealist influences that inspired Tina Modotti and Frida Kahlo, Penny wanted to articulate an unspoken language of the feminine — a feminine which is both repressed and dangerously misappropriated by pornography, the popular press and the darkest reaches of the internet. pwickson@stmaryscalne.org

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Vanessa WILSON

Susan WO O D

Oil on canvas, 120cm x 120cm, £2,500

Screenprint on birch plywood, 64cm x 53cm x 3.5cm, £150

Flame Tree, 2015 Year left 1987

Vanessa has been living and working in Andalusia, Spain, for the last twelve years. She recently returned to the UK and is doing a PGCE to teach art at secondary school level. She graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1991 and has continued to make and show her work in England, Scotland, Spain and Gibraltar. She has also worked at Tate Britain and for the jeweller Elizabeth Gage in London.

She moved to Glasgow in 1999 where she formed her own classes and taught painting and drawing.

She ran residential art courses and worked as an independent art worker for a mental health organisation.

“My subjects are largely figurative, often land or cityscapes. Environment influences my work but I often draw from a recalled memory as I seek to connect outside experiences with interior ones.” ms.vanessa.wilson@icloud.com

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The Excavation, 2013 Year left 1960

After retirement from her post as Deputy Head and English and History teacher in 2001, Susan Wood gained a degree in Visual Art (BA Hons) and an MA in Fine Art by Project at Winchester School of Art. She has exhibited in Winchester, Chawton, London, Mottisfont, Poole, Southampton and Wells. She is currently working on two aural drawings for CHALK 10 Days Winchester, 2015.

One forms part of a collaborative installation and the other is an individual work.

“I am a drawer who uses sound, line and colour to express the vibrancy of immediate experience, celebrate the routinely unnoticed and interrogate the boundaries between reality and imagination.” susanwood42@googlemail.com

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Tabitha ELLIS Cheese Plant

Acrylic on Canvas, 80cm x 100cm Year left 2015

Olivia K I N G

Penguins 2, 120cm x 100cm, Penguins 3, 60cm x 30cm Oil on Canvas Year left 2015

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Francesca LAMB

Phoebe P U G H

Photograph

Girl in the Garden 2, 70cm x 90cm

Film

Year left 2015

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Tiwa SAGOE

Charlotte S E L F

Graffiti Girl 2, 100cm x 80cm

Waterfall, 137cm x182cm

Graffiti Girl 1, 100cm x 80cm Oil on Canvas Year left 2015

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Stream, 108cm x 84cm Acrylic on Photograph Year left 2015

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Juliet B A K E R

Helena B OA S E

Landscape Trees

Alice

UVI Form (Art Scholar) Charcoal on Paper Blossom

Acrylic on Canvas

UVI Form (Art Scholar) Brother Cousin

Acrylic on Canvas Dry-Point and water colour on paper

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Charlotte F I T Z W I L L I A M - L AY UVI Form

Self Portrait — Reclining figure Charcoal on Paper

Mystery in the Woods

Dry-Point and water colour on Paper

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Clara KRANTZ UVI Form

Blue Grey Portrait

Acrylic on Canvas

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Esme LANE F OX UVI Form

Photographs

Catherine ROBERTS UVI Form

Black and White Balloons Photograph

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LV I F O R M ARTISTS Nadia ASHBRIDGE Jess DAVIES (Art Scholar) Josephine FITZWILLIAM-LAY Georgina HOPE Alexis PURDY Annabel SUMNER Eliza WHITFIELD

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S E N I O R ART SCHOLARS Isabella D E P L A Dancer

Jess DAV I E S Horse

Lucy HUMPHRIES

Arabian Nights – Elephants Arabian Nights – Parrots Animal Madness

Isabella D E P L A Insight

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J U N I O R ART SCHOLARS

Elsa PA R K E R Laughing Fox

Adrianna WADE Fairy Mannequins

Lily S C OT T

Poppy READ Moon Light

Self Portrait

Laura G R E E N E Ballet Dancer 84

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2 0 1 5 G C S E PROJECT ‘ A RT O F WAR’ Jess DAVIES (Art Scholar) Josephine FITZWILLIAM-LAY Lucy HUMPHRIES (Art Scholar) Joyce LAM Evie NICHOLSON Georgia PATTERSON Emily PEEL Megan PIPER Ella PITMAN Alexis PURDY Annabel SUMNER Eliza WHITFIELD

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U V F O R M 2 0 1 6 GCSE PROJECT ‘ANIMALS’ Lucy B RADLEY Camel Acrylic on Canvas

Isabella D E P L A (Art Scholar) Lizard Acrylic on Canvas

Hannah FA L K

Elephant Wire,Wood, Plaster, Rope

Lara KUROPATWA

Flamingo Acrylic on Canvas

Isobel G O L D S TO N Horse Acrylic on Canvas

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Alexandra TSYLNITSKA Wolf

Acrylic on Canvas

Coco LI

Meerkat Acrylic on Canvas 90

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Renee CHEANG

Tiger Acrylic on Canvas

Maddy S E L F

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Georgia LANE FOX

Giraffe Acrylic on Canvas

Elizabeth KHVATOVA

Snow Leopard, Acrylic on Canvas

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Jessamy M O N E Y- K Y R L E Black Lab

Acrylic on Canvas

Hannah RO B S O N Giraffe Acrylic on Canvas

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LV Form Group Installations – these paintings are inspired by the Feltmaking process

Clara WADE

Ivy AU-YEUNG Isabel B AKER Lottie BURNS Celia ELLIS Arabella FANE Zanya FECHNER Lucy FITZWILLIAM-LAY Eliza GLOVER Annabel GOURIET Mimi HABIB Alex KAWAWAKI Millie KNIGHT Carlota OTERA SÁEZ Mia SAMENGO Bella SHARP Polina UZORNIKOVA Florence WHITFIELD Maya WILSON

Tortoise Acrylic on Canvas

Ariana WATLING

Owl Acrylic on Canvas

Alice WADE

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M I V F O R M HOUSE COMPETITION ‘PLACE’

P H OTO G R A P H I C C O M P E T I T I O N ‘ P L AC E ’

Belinda HARRISON

Eliza G L OV E R

Georgina B ARTLETT Polly MALLI NSON Molly MARV IN

Elsa PARKER (Art Scholar) Lauren WILTSHIRE Nancy XIE

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Phoebe A L D R I D G E - T U R N E R Georgia L E A F

Victoria O G E - E VA N S

Hannah M C L I N TO C K Alice WA D E

Jessica W E S T WO O D

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U I V FORM GROUP PAINTINGS

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Through the studio window…

H OW TO B U Y A PA I N T I N G

Many of the pieces of art in this Exhibition are for sale. Please talk to any of St Mary’s staff for more information or email art@stmaryscalne.org A percentage of each sale will be donated to The Calne Foundation Trust, at the discretion of the artist.

PRIZES

The following prizes will be awarded:

The Fitzwilliam-Lay Prize for a painting by a Senior Girl Kindly given by The Fitzwilliam-Lay family in loving memory of Victoria Fitzwilliam-Lay The Calne Girls Association Prize for a former Calne Girl Kindly sponsored by Susie Freeman Travel The Curator’s Prize

Four Lily Awards for Senior & Junior Girls Kindly sponsored by Whitehall Garden Centre

O U R T H A N K S to our very generous sponsors and supporters of this Exhibition including Sir Antony Gormley, Ting Cai & Dingwang Han and Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich. We are also very grateful to the Calne Girls Association who have generously sponsored each of the evening receptions, and to all our advertisers, allowing us to raise as much money as possible for The Calne Foundation Trust.

C ALNE G IRLS A CCOCIATION

We are also grateful to Rebecca Hunt Davis (rebeccahuntdavis@btinternet.com) who designed this beautiful catalogue and to Corsham Print (www.corshamprint.co.uk) who produced it.

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C ALNE FOUNDATION TRUST

The Calne Foundation Trust is a charitable trust that exists to support present and future generations of pupils at St Mary’s Calne and St Margaret’s Preparatory School. It was established in 2012 and exists to ensure continuing investment in the schools’ facilities and to provide vital funding for Scholarships, Bursaries and other educational programmes benefiting the pupils of the two schools. The Calne Foundation Trust helps the schools to realise their ambitions and make a real difference for generations to come.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A new generation of artists is coming through the school and this is a wonderful opportunity for them to show their work alongside professional artists in a stunning London venue.

Dr Felicia Kirk is incredibly supportive of the creative life of the school and has afforded us this great opportunity and space to showcase the work of our talented artists and celebrate their achievements. The CGA committee has been unswervingly encouraging and supportive in this project and the work we do here in the studios.

I am indebted to Cari Depla and Arabella Unwin for their enthusiasm and commitment to the project along with Caroline Wrench for her versatile support. Kelly Crockett for organising the Preparatory School workshops and to Stephanie Bryan for publicity and communication. My acknowledgement to those members of the Art School Staff, particularly Stephanie Pfister, who have encouraged the girls and helped present such fabulous work. My grateful thanks also goes to Phil Fennel and Julian Davis for their technical support throughout.

Finally my thanks goes to Jenna Burlingham who so kindly gave her time and expertise to help curate this Exhibition.

We now look forward to what comes next…

REBECCA SPICER DI R E C TO R O F A RT

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