SYNERGY

A collaboration between Gallery Different and Sheridan Russell Gallery

Exhibiting two painters and four sculptors

Denis Bowen (1921 - 2006) has work in the Tate, V & A and the British Museum as well as the national galleries of Italy, Poland, Israel and Macedonia, and is one of the most well respected British artists of the post war period and an artist who championed abstract art, showing artists from 27 different countries in his Marylebone Gallery NEW VISION.  His estate is represented by Gallery Different who are presenting a number of important pieces from the archive. 

Alongside Bowen paintings is a contemporary painter, George Antoni, whose mixed media works would have resonated with Bowen and his spirit of experimentation.  Using predominantly layers of emulsion, but incorporating acrylic pigments, ink and in some cases wood dye, and finished with a layer of wax, Antoni's work evokes an emotional response to colours, shapes, textures and details.

The sculpture exhibited in Synergy covers many different media and sculptural techniques.  Johannes Von Stumm, past president of the Royal Society of Sculptors, is exhibiting his complex geometric works composed of impossible combinations of materials.  Stone, glass, bronze, wood and steel connect together in intricate balance. Alongside these we also have two of his Immaterial Figures.  A chance to see his work in anticipation of his major solo exhibition at Gallery Different in 2020.

Patricia Volk is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and her work captures an essence of sculptural form and line in pieces worked directly in clay, fired and then finished with acrylic colour.  The vibrancy of the colours and the uniting of two or more forms suggest contradictions that mirror human relationships - strength and fragility; stability and preariousness; rest and activity.

Mel Fraser, also a member of the Royal Society, is a master of her medium.  Self taught, she works with the finest stones available to make beautiful sculpture in Kilkenny Limestone, Carrara Marble, Blue, White and Honey Alabaster, as well as Semi Precious Stones.  She takes the stone to its finest possible thickness, where light penetrates the stone, illuminating her sculpture.

Mid Wales based sculptor Stephen Page uses the lost wax process to produce beautiful bronze works that are based on an animal theme.  However, these forms are strippped to their bare essentials, focussing on the very essence of the animal.  This economy of form gives the work a timelessness - evoking both ancient imagery and cutting edge contemporary design.

SYNERGY aims to give the viewer a feast of artistic endeavour that completely demonstrates the power of art to communicate with irresistible emotional directness.