The Wrexham Open 2017 – a photo essay

Currently showing at the ‘Undegun’ gallery and studio space in Wrexham town centre, the Wrexham Open 2017 art exhibition, featuring a wide range of contemporary work by professional and amateur artists from the local area and beyond, including a couple of my recent ‘Woodscapes’ (#2 and #3) which I was fortunate to have selected (from a submission of three) for inclusion. For the first time in a few years, it’s good to see one’s work in the context of others’.

The first sighting of my ‘Woodscapes’ #2 and #3 in context.

‘Woodscapes’ #2 and #3

‘Woodscape #3’ (2017)

‘Woodscape #2’ (2016) (with close invigilation!)

A particular favourite, Mark Folds’ ‘Nothing On’.

‘Woodscape #6’ (finished)

‘Woodscape #6’  oil on canvas/24″ x 48″/March – April 2017

Brought to some form of resolution on Saturday afternoon, the latest in the series of painterly representations of the experience of being present in the local ‘Maes y Pant’ woodland, with the habitual emphasis on the process of explicit mark-making (with a preponderance of horizontal and vertical brush strokes relating to the edges of the picture plane in best modernist fashion) in the service of realising a visually ‘haptic’ surface, the basis of the image content betraying an autumnally-captured source.

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Selection Success!

In the previous post, I made mention of fact that I was involved in the preparation of three of the ‘woodscape’ paintings submitted for consideration for inclusion in the upcoming Wrexham Open 2017 exhibition, and on Friday afternoon came the very good news, via email, that two of them had been selected for the show, #2 and #3 as pictured below, which was at least one more than expected.

‘Woodscape #2’ (2016)/oil on canvas/24″ x 48″

‘Woodscape #3’ (2017)/oil on canvas/24″ x 48″

The exhibition opens this coming Friday, 7th April, and continues until Saturday 29th April when the various prizewinning entries will be announced, at the ‘Undegun’ gallery and art space in Wrexham town centre’s Regent Street, and it will be very interesting to see the other chosen artworks and the two ‘woodscapes’ in the context of.