Tara Parker-Woolway exhibition catalogue for Oxfordshire Artweeks 2024

Tara Parker-Woolway Exhibition catalogue for Oxfordshire Artweeks 2024 Venue 504

Hello, welcome to my catalogue for Oxfordshire Artweeks 2024.

My studio is open for you to visit on the 17th/ 18th and 25th/26th /27th May 12pm until 5 pm

– For appointments outside of these times, please contact me at tara@parkerwoolwayartist.co.uk I am delighted to share a selection of my most recent works with you. You may notice a development in my abstracted landscape series – I have become increasingly drawn to making misty, ethereal works which incorporate water. This year, I have been collating words too, to make titles – romantic, poetic words that describe feelings and places.

So, grab a cuppa (or a tipple of your choice) sit back and take a wander through what has kept me busy recently…..

My studio is a riot of paint and a hive of activity!

As I work on many paintings consecutively, I have created a ‘contemplation wall’ – an area where I hang my work to study it as it progresses.

Often paintings will sit quietly for a period of time before I realise what they need to finish them off.

All my work is sealed and varnished before being sold and I can arrange talk through framing options if needed.

If you see an artwork that you are particularly drawn to in the following pages, do get in touch and I would be delighted to arrange a private viewing ahead of Artweeks.

I appreciate buying an artwork can be a big investment and a very personal choice. For a small deposit, if you are local, I can offer a ‘try before you buy’ system, allowing you to view an artwork in your own home.

Payment plans to spread the cost are available – please just ask for more details!

‘Borders, Boundaries and Edges’ 2024 Inspired by misty landscapes, walk's by the riverbank and flooded fields in winter

‘Fernweh’ 2024 (German for longing for distant landscapes)

To scale in situ

Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £450

To scale in situ

To give an idea of the size and scale of my paintings I have created in situ images for a lot of my works.

These two have been cropped slightly.

‘Emergence’ 2024 Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £450

To scale in situ

‘Hiraeth’ 2024 (Welsh for deep longing – especially for one’s home landscape) Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £450

‘Wild embers’ 2024 Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £450

To scale in situ

‘Falling through memory’ 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 100 cm £500

To scale in situ

To give an idea of the size and scale of my paintings I have created in situ images for a lot of my works.

To scale in situ

‘Breezes spent’ 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 100 cm £550

‘Bruach’ 2024 (Gaelic meaning bank of a river)

Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £450

‘Aber’ 2024 (Gaelic meaning mouth of a river)

Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £450

‘Between air and earth’ 2024 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm £350

‘The desire path’ 2024

Acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm £350

‘The stream had grown up’ 2024 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm £350

Even though paintings are enlarged to the size of the page, do look carefully at the dimensions listed under the title as they are all different sizes Trust your dreams, 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 100 cm £550

To scale in situ

‘The embrace of the wild’, 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 120 cm £550

To scale in situ

Warm airs climb, 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 100 cm £550

To scale in situ

‘Borbhan’ 2024 (Gaelic meaning murmur of a stream) Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £450

‘Airie’, 2023 (Gaelic for gentle breath of wind) Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 120 cm £550

‘A murmur of joy’ 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £400

‘The Brae’ 2023

Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £400

‘Where the light gets in I’ 2023 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 cm £150 (£200 framed)

‘Where the light gets in II’ 2023 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 cm £150 (£200 framed)

‘Where the light gets in III’ 2023 Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 cm £150 (£200 framed)

To scale in situ

‘Loom’ 2024 (Gaelic meaning slow and silent movement of water) Acrylic on box canvas 40 x 40 cm £350

To scale in situ

‘Feadan’ 2024 (Gaelic meaning small stream) Acrylic on box canvas 40 x 40 cm £350

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‘Hot about my heart ’ 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 60cm x 60cm £400

‘By Waters Idle’ 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 60cm x 60cm £400

To give an idea of the size and scale of my paintings I have created in situ images for a lot of my works.

Unstretched mini series 20 x 20 cm unframed

40 x 40 cm framed

This is a small selection of the mini-series. To see more please get in touch to make an appointment or visit my open studio.

Small paintings on unstretched canvas, mounted on MDF and framed in a shallow tray frame

20 x 20 cms unframed (35 x 35 cms framed) £200 framed (£150 unframed)

I have recently been working on a series of small paintings on unstretched canvas (see left). I plan to mount and frame them as pictured here (right) If you are interested in a mini and would like to talk about alternative framing options, please get in touch

To scale in situ

Echo's in the wind, 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £400

Fanned by wings, 2023 Acrylic on box canvas 60 x 60 cm £400

Abstract landscapes on wooden panel.

Small 20 x 20 cm abstract paintings on wood, reminiscent of the Ridgeway and landscape walks.

£50 each

Slowly the marks made on the canvas come to resemble recognised imagery.

These are small, quiet paintings who do not shout but gently pull you in to look closer and loose yourself.

Above and beyond, 2022 Acrylic on 30 x 30 box canvas £150

Acrylic on 30 x 30 box canvas £150

Inner calm, 2022

Contemplation paintings.

Liminal coasts I, 2021 Acrylic on 30 x 30 box canvas £150

The paths we have walked, 2022 Acrylic on 30 x 30 box canvas £150

New dawn, 2022

Acrylic on 30 x 30 box canvas £150

Liminal coasts V, 2021 Acrylic on 30 x 30 box canvas £150

The places I have been III, 2021 Acrylic on 20 x 20 box canvas £100

Listen to the silence, 2022 Acrylic on 30 x 30 box canvas £150

The contour of feeling I, The contour of feeling II, 2021 2021 Acrylic and charcoal on wooden cradle board 50 x 50 cm £200

Acrylic and charcoal on wooden cradle board 50 x 50 cm £200

A selection of my floral works are on show at Overtown Manor, Wiltshire until June 2024. For more information, please contact Nancy@overtownmanor.co.uk

The earth laughs in flowers, 2021 Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 160 cm £600

To scale in situ

Geranium 1 2019 (parts I, II &III)

Acrylic and charcoal on box canvas 20 x 50 x 3cm £100 each (£250 the triptych)

Yet never the same, 2020 Acrylic on box canvas 100 x 160 cm £600

Thank you again for viewing my catalogue - please get in touch if you would like to purchase or find out more about a specific piece.

I hope to be open again for Swindon Open Studios in September - keep up to date by checking my website.

I look forward to welcoming you in… until then though…

To find out more…. Please visit My website www.parkerwoolway.co.uk

Bye for now and best wishes

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Tara PW