Figures and Figuration at The Forge Gallery

Walberton, United Kingdom.- Christopher Stone and Peter Morris will be taking part in their first show together, Late August at The Forge Gallery,Walberton, a date to put in your diaries. Peter Morris is an experienced artist, having been painting since the late 1940s. His subject matter is diverse: Greek Island cafe scenes with fishermen relaxing and talking after a hard day, workmen moving a piano, figures in a string quartet, or warm Dordogne landscapes, all in a solid style which emphasises the structure of the design on the canvas. He keeps a sketch book constantly, deriving his subjects from events he records in its pages. Christopher, whose beautifully crafted stone sculptures and metal-and-clay maquettes compliment and contrast with Peter’s figurations, is well known for saying “My style is – I don’t have a style; sure I follow a pattern, or a theme, but I prefer to cut directly into the stone or work with my hands in the clay, I make very few drawings, or sketches, I am afraid to lose the spontaneity of the whole thing, In fact many of the Maquettes I do make are made in oven baked clay in order to stop me from doing more, Its an expensive way to work, but it controls me, and this way the Maquettes become a finished piece in their own right.” For connoisseurs of the act of making works of art, the contrast between Peter’s logical method and Christopher’s unbounded spontaneity

in tacking the depiction of the human figure makes, apart from the pleasure of looking at the works themselves, a fascinating reason for visiting this exhibition.

http://www.forgegallerywalberton.co.uk

The Exhibition will be held at The Forge Gallery. The Street, Walberton. West Sussex, BN8 OPQ. UK.

The Fiddler by Christopher Stone

Peter at work

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