BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6918@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220923 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20221120 DTSTAMP:20220916T135151Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/dot-art-flora/ SUMMARY:dot-art Gallery: dot-art: Flora DESCRIPTION:Flora\n\n23rd September– 19th November\n\nFeaturing Andrew Sh erriff\, Clare Chinnery\, Hilary Dron &\; Grahame Ashcroft\n\nFlora\, t he latest exhibition at dot-art Gallery explores the historical and contem porary representation of flowers\, plants and the genre of floral still li fe. Each of the artists in this exhibition interprets through their unique ly developed style the organic curves and soft folds of flowers and leaves that we display in our homes or plant in our gardens.\n\nClare Chinnery  and Hilary Dron add a contemporary pop of colour with abstracted roses a nd pansies dripping down the canvas. Andrew Sherriff offers a traditiona l observational view with his flower studies\, having a background in life drawing and working tonally with light and shadow\, adding surprising bac kgrounds of textured swirls. If these artists are on a scale of style then  Grahame Ashcroft sits in the middle\, with his shapely compositions of close-up flowerpots and planters\, all in zingy bright colours but true to the form of the flower species he analyses.\n\nAndrew Sherriff – Featu red in this exhibition is Andrew’s ‘Lockdown Flowers’ series. “Nor mally I like to capture people but because of lockdown that was restricted but I was still keen to keep creating. I would arrange some flowers each week to draw and see what developed. I worked in a loose and energetic sty le in the hope of giving the flowers a sense of movement\; it is surprisin g how much flowers move\, following the light.”\n\nClare Chinnery - “ With an interest in 17th-century Vanitas paintings I have been studying th e symbolism and chiaroscuro techniques of the old masters\; interpreting a nd translating historical images and creating my own still lives using exp ressive colour and spontaneous mark making. These paintings are inspired s pecifically by Jan Davidsz DeHeem’s baroque style still lives\, their co mplex and overladen sumptuous compositions focus on tropical summer fruits and flowers with added suggestions of snails\, seashells and skulls.”\n \nHilary Dron - Hilary was born in Liverpool and completed her degree at Central School of Art and Design\, London. She worked as a designer for Li berty before beginning a 30 year career\, teaching Art in schools and in F urther Education. After a sabbatical in Japan and the Far East\, she decid ed to leave teaching and concentrate on her own work\, something she has a lways wanted to do. The last six months have represented a huge step for H ilary and have included a commission by Aintree Hospital and exhibitions i n and around Liverpool.\n\nGrahame Ashcroft – “At the start of the pa ndemic lockdown in March 2020\, I decided to paint in my garden. Although his garden paintings are looser than mine and in a different medium\, I fo und Emil Nolde's work encouraging. Nolde's experience of a lockdown was be ing forbidden by the Nazi regime to paint or exhibit. For me\, not being a llowed out came as a perversely liberating experience. So much so that\, t wo years later\, I'm still painting in my garden.”\n\nAll artworks are f or sale\n\nJoin us for the Private View of the exhibition on Thursday 22nd September from 5pm-7pm. All welcome\, but you must register here: https: //floraprivateview.eventbrite.co.uk\n\nThe dot-art Gallery can be found at 14 Queen Avenue\, Castle Street\, Liverpool\, L2 4TX (just 5 minutes’ w alk from Liverpool One).\n\nOpening times: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10am-6pm \n\nThe exhibition runs 23rd September– 19th November 2022. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2022/09/Flora-banner.jpg LOCATION:dot-art Gallery\, 14 Queen Avenue\, off Castle St.\, Liverpool\, L 2 4TX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406693;-2.991183 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14 Queen Avenue\, off Castl e St.\, Liverpool\, L2 4TX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100 ;X-TITLE=dot-art Gallery:geo:53.406693,-2.991183 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR