{"id":1558,"date":"2016-04-26T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lancasterpriory.org\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2016-04-26T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:34:02","slug":"cathy-wilson-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radium-basement.com\/priory2\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Wilson Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exhibition of artwork by Artist In Residence Cathy Wilson on display in the Priory throughout April 2016.<\/h3>\n

I completed these portraits whilst I was Artist in Residence at the Priory from April 2014\u00a0to April 2016. This exhibition marks the end of the Residency and runs for the month of\u00a0April 2016. My studio space during the residency was the room under the Bell Tower\u00a0and when I was working, members of the public and staff of the Priory had access to\u00a0watch me work as well as to see the progress of the drawings when I wasn’t around.<\/p>\n

The first stage of the work involved asking people if they would let medraw them. To my surprise, all but one person agreed and the rest were willing to come to my studio on Castle Park to be photographed. I then worked directly from these photographs using soft pastel on watercolour paper, now and again walking the length of the Church to view the drawings from a distance. Some of the people I chose myself, others were suggested to me, but every face I have drawn posed a unique challenge\u00a0and it has proved to be an incredibly enjoyable process.<\/p>\n

I have tried to include a variety of ages, ethnicity and roughly the same\u00a0number of men and women, to highlight the rich diversity of life in this Church. Some\u00a0faces will be easily recognisable, others less so, but all are connected with the Priory, in some way such as members of the Clergy, Vergers, those who work in the gift shop and members of the congregation. I have tried to imbue the drawings with life and light, paying particular attention to details of skin texture, and colour, emphasising lines and\u00a0creases in the skin. I want to place particular focus on the eyes.<\/p>\n

There is a passage in scripture that I have in mind relating to this. It comes
\nfrom Luke 11: 34 – 36, where Jesus says “Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your
\neyes are good, your whole body also is full of light, but when they are bad, your whole
\nbody is full of darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it
\ndark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you”.\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

I have found that in making this series of drawings, my work has taken on a
\nnew direction. Whereas previously I worked from photographs in magazines,
\npredominantly of young and smooth skinned models, I am now working from
\nphotographs of people that I have a connection to, with all the character of a life lived
\nin their faces.<\/p>\n

I aim to continue making work in this vein and have plans to make two
\ndrawings, each twice the size of these, to be included in a group exhibition by Luneside
\nStudios in the gallery at the Storey throughout July and August 2016.<\/p>\n

With the kind help of Paul Mullineaux, I now have a website and publicity
\nleaflet about myself, which can be found in the Church. If you would like to contact me
\nor view more examples of my work, my website is cathywilsonart.co.uk. I would gladly
\ntake commission requests.<\/p>\n

I would like to thank Reverend Chris Newlands for organising this Residency
\nand giving me such encouragement as well as all the people I have drawn for their
\nbravery posing for such large scale portraits, also Tom the verger and my fiance David
\nfor their help hanging the exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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