Replenish
Friday 6th - Sunday 16th March 2025
Five Fine and Applied Artists at the Malthouse Gallery, Town Mill Courtyard, Mill Lane, Lyme Regis DT7 3PU.
Lesley Hook
Lesley is a mixed media artist, building up layers of hand decorated papers, acrylic paints and inks, collage, crayon and pastel, to create paintings full of colour and pattern, that reflect her love of textiles and her home life nestling in Devon’s green landscape, just a stone’s throw from the coastline.
Her paintings can be a rainbow of colour, inspired by nature while allowing her imagination to wander and create. Still-life paintings, include her collection of vases and bowls, filled with flowers and fruit. Using elements from the kitchen table she develops her paintings with a splash of imagination and a nod to her love of tapestry, patchwork and embroidery.
Colour is a principle element in her work, applied in layers, and created with an intention to bring the outside in, to give heart, a sense of joy, and a narrative. Her aim is to create authentic artworks that engage viewers and allow them to connect emotionally.
@lesleyhookartandheart
Hesta Singlewood
Hesta is an East Devon artist responding to nature through her artwork which celebrates the turning of each season. Hesta's artwork is the result of her background in both art and horticulture. it is Hesta's love of the natural world that inspires her to create and this is radiated into her work.
@bodkincreates
Zee Jones
Following redundancy, Zee found herself with the opportunity to finally follow her passion and embarked upon an Art Foundation course. She started painting in 2010.
Since finishing her studies, she has continued to learn with influential mentors to enhance and encourage her painting skills. She is dedicated to her practice and has gone from strength to strength. She finds focus and influence from the 20th century modernists.
Her technique and style have developed, and she now specialises in mixed media and collage.
Her work has been described as confident and strong. It uses compelling structure, combined with her natural flair for colour.
Zee's work is inspired by the natural world, by the countryside and coastline which surround her. She moved to East Devon in 1992 and the roots she has set down run deep, her love for the area is evident and shines out through her work.
@zeejonesartist
Caroline Barnes
Caroline is an established maker working in porcelain producing a range of buttons, brooches, coasters and framed tile collections. From a small studio in West Dorset she creates decorative ceramics featuring transfer images of botanical & marine life inspired by the local coast, natural history collection, vintage prints & illustrations.
With old printer’s trays full of tiles Caroline enjoys the process of compiling and composing these collections of ceramics, thinking carefully about how one image can react to the next. Her work sometimes reflects the fragments & incomplete fossils & debris she collects from local beaches along the Jurassic Coast.
The tiles are produced using a porcelain clay decorated with a white glaze. Images from my drawings, prints and photographs are then applied in the form of a platinum and colour transfer decoration. Each Christmas tree decoration is finished with gold lustre.
Transfer decoration is a clean and practical way of marrying the handmade with small batch production enabling Caroline to experiment with scale, composition & presentation. These techniques allow her to draw upon her training as both a ceramicist and a museum professional.
Caroline sells her work nationally and internationally, participating in exhibitions, trade and public shows as well as through select outlets and galleries. By working in partnership with interior designers she is increasingly working to commission for specific spaces and schemes.
@carolinebarnesceramics
Alison Shelton Brown
Making with meaning is fundamental to Alison, exploring the consequences of the human touch on our world.
As a multi-disciplinary artist her butterfly brain and bowerbird eye intuitively play with those fluttering thoughts through ceramics, metal and textiles, encouraging a tactile curiosity. She loves the malleability of clay; to prod, tear and embed surfaces with the foraged and found, inviting a reciprocal interaction.
Porcelain has a reputation for fragility, yet its fineness is its strength. Appearances can be deceptive. Featherweight components with an underlying process of playfulness and a light touch are often inspired by ethnographic collections, such as scrimshaw and amulets.
Alison makes objects that adorn and ornament the body or a place; sculptural ceramics which can be hung, worn and stroked. By distilling an idea and eliminating the unnecessary, the essence of a form is divined; a simple joy revealed.
There is a circularity in life; forgotten themes re-emerge from a chrysalis, while tangible mark making and our impact on the natural world weave and cast shadows.
@alisonsheltonbrown
