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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-reader-gallery-paintings-by-
 s-k-stevens-jane-reilly-jewellery-by-silvana/
SUMMARY:The Reader Gallery: The Reader Gallery: Paintings by S.K.Stevens & 
 Jane Reilly\, jewellery by Silvana
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition runs Monday 7 September - Sunday 27 September 2105\,
  10.00 - 17.00\nPainters S.K.Stevens and Jane Reilly\nPlus: from Monday 14
  - Sunday 27 Jewellery by Silvana\n\nS.K. Stevens:\nI was born in Liverpoo
 l in 1963\, was educated at Liverpool Girls College and went on to study F
 ine Art and History at 'Liverpool Institute of Higher Education\, St Kathe
 rine's College. I returned to education in 1998 attending Goldsmiths Colle
 ge\, London from where I obtained a Post Graduate Diploma and Masters Degr
 ee in Art Psychotherapy.\n\nI have exhibited work across the UK since 2004
  in group and solo shows and I was recently chosen to represent Knowsley a
 nd The Wirral in the Best of Merseyside Exhibition at the Conservation Cen
 tre Liverpool.\n\nI deliberately title my works in a way that allows the v
 iewer freedom to make the picture their own\, hoping to evoke an emotional
  response\, a memory or a feeling. The paintings have an immediacy which m
 akes them attractive at first glance but beyond which lies an emotional de
 pth\, rich in life\, intensity and complexity. The paintings are often int
 imate and fragile\, carefully considered yet spontaneously painted. I aim 
 to tempt the onlooker to engage with the varying colour palettes\, to enco
 urage a closer inspection\, to bring the small details to life\, layering 
 of paint and marks made purely by pallete knife. The seductive use of colo
 ur and texture creates a universal accessibility to the work and aims to a
 llow everyone an experience that is personal and unique to them.\n\nI aim 
 to produce work that is distinctive and instinctive\, that holds a rawness
  that is genuine\, honest and never contrived. I approach each painting wi
 th a desire to capture a moment only\, a fragment of time capturing an imp
 ression and emotional response that is gone almost before I have time to t
 ake it all in. There is nothing hidden in these paintings\, nothing kept f
 rom the viewer about the work they see or the artist that painted them but
  there are many possible levels of interpretation and understanding about 
 both.\nFacebook page\n\nJane Reilly:\nI have made my home in Prescot\, Liv
 erpool with my family for the past 28 years\, a solid base from which I ga
 ined a BA in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores followed by a Post Graduate
  Diploma in Art Psychotherapy at Sheffield University.\n\nI am now focusin
 g on producing my own work where I allow ideas to freely build in an organ
 ic way until ideas are formed. Colour\, texture and materials obviously pl
 ay their part but it's the history and memories that are explored through 
 the layers of paint.\n\nBefore living in the Merseyside area I was brought
  up in the Cheshire countryside. It has always been my local environments 
 that have provided the many focal points for paintings and it's been a way
  of combining my industrial and rural past.\n\nOver the years I have been 
 able to travel to many interesting places and my paintings reflect the col
 ours\, sights and smells that I experienced. Some highlights were the froz
 en Canadian forests\, the orchards in Slovakia and the back waters in Sout
 hern India. Walking and being outside in nature is where I feel most inspi
 red and I look forward to continuing my journeys by foot and on canvas.\nF
 acebook page\n\nSilvana Briers:\nI design and handcraft copper and sterlin
 g silver jewellery\, often quirky\, always individual. I incorporate brass
 \, glass\, enamel and semi-precious stones in some designs and I have a ne
 w range using pewter which is not only jewellery\, but clocks and dinky an
 imal ornaments.\n\nAnimals have featured in quite a big part of my work re
 cently\, in all the metals I use.\nI sell though a few galleries (Derbyshi
 re\, Cumbria and Warrington) and also online via Folksy\, etsy\, my facebo
 ok page (www.facebook.com/SilvanaJewellery) and my website (www.jewelleryb
 ysilvana.co.uk).
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