BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9971@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20241029 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20241117 DTSTAMP:20241014T153739Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/arthouse-gallery-suzanne-riley/ SUMMARY:ArtHouse Gallery: ArtHouse Gallery: Suzanne Riley DESCRIPTION:‘Creative Interpretations inspired by Nature using Mixed Medi a Painting and Textiles’\n\na solo exhibition by Suzanne Riley\n\nArtHou se\, 65 Eastbank Street\, Southport\, Merseyside\, PR8 1EJ\n\n29th Oc tober – 16th November 2024\n\nA year after her successful group exhibit ion at the ArtHouse\, showcasing the students attending her regular mixed media drawing and painting courses held at the Cricket Club in Mawdesley and the studio room at Brookside in Ormskirk\, the spotlight will now be firmly focused on Suzanne Riley’s own artistic repertoire for her celebr atory solo show at the same gallery in Southport this autumn.\n\nHaving en joyed working across various mediums throughout her career\, the breadth o f Suzanne’s considerable talent will be well to the fore in an ambitious show that will encompass the extensiveness of her artistic skills.\n\n“ My background is in constructed textiles which focused primarily on weavin g\, knit\, stitch\, spinning\, yarn design and felt making. My interest in drawing and painting was apparent as an infant with colour and texture al ways being a passion.”\n\nA graduate in Textile Design in the 1980s\, Su zanne went on to work at one of the largest woolen mills in the North West – Joseph Hoyle and Sons – designing woven fabrics for premiere women ’s fashion labels\, Jaeger\, Planet and Aquascutum before completing a F E teaching diploma that ultimately steered her towards lecturing at West L ancashire College (formerly Skelmersdale and Ormskirk College).\n\n“Duri ng my 34 years teaching career I’ve had many opportunities to explore ot her art and design related specialisms such as mixed media textiles\, prin t and ceramics. Favourite combinations of textile techniques and processes include Batik\, Applique\, Free Motion Embroidery and Dissolvable fabric applications all combined in one creative outcome. My preferred combinatio ns of media for painting include a watercolour/ink base with applications of gouache\, chalk pastel\, oil pastel and graphite.”\n\nSuzanne generat es most of her artistic stimulation direct from Nature: “Organic shapes \, the natural landscape\, the changing seasons\, flowers\, foliage\, seed pods\, seaweed and seashells are all inspirational sources. Their naturall y occurring patterns\, textures\, surfaces and colour combinations never c ease to amaze me and are regularly incorporated into my artwork.”\n\nIn particular\, Suzanne expresses an enthusiastic passion for all varieties o f winter-flowering Hellebores: “Their shapes\, colours\, textures and f orms are stunning and provide an excellent starting point for developing d esign ideas or simply recording as an observational mixed media painting/d rawing. Their seedpods\, too\, are such intricate shapes\, quite charming! ”\n\nThe exhibition will be grouped into examples of Textiles\, Painting and Drawing.\n\nSeldom restricting herself to a single medium\, Suzanne ’s textiles are assembled following four processes: “The foundation l ayer is Batik on 100% Habotai silk\, which is then backed with felt. Apply ing liquid wax provides a barrier for the silk paints and creates a patter n once the wax is removed using a hot iron. Free machine embroidery is the n stitched onto the Batik background to suggest the outline of the flowers and to offer further definition. Then dissolvable fabric work is applied in places on top as a third layer. To achieve this\, machine stitch is app lied to dissolvable fabric that is then immersed into boiling water. The b oiling water dissolves the fabric and you are left with the embroidered la ce like structures which are then tacked onto the machine stitched Batik b ase.”\n\nWorking from life\, Suzanne’s paintings of floral arrangement s using cut flowers also rely on combining a variety of media and intuitiv e techniques: “The two vases of flowers are seasonal flowers painted us ing a watercolour base with the addition of watercolour pencil\, graphite and chalk pastel on top. A broad range of mark making and surface pattern techniques are also used to achieve different effects before adding rock & amp\; table salts on damp ink-based watercolour to create the textured vas es.”\n\nSuzanne’s landscapes are similarly rich in their composition t hat she puts down to her textile background. Built up using gouache and oi l pastel applied over a watercolour base\, wax crayon and oil pastel are further applied onto some of the tree trunks in order to resist the paint before decorating with ‘sgraffito’ to enhance the final texture.\n\n Certainly not one to be missed\, Suzanne’s solo exhibition will be on sh ow at the ArtHouse\, Eastbank Street\, Southport from 29th October – 16th November 2024.  The gallery is open Tuesday – Friday 10.00-15.00 .  Saturday 11.00-16.00. 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