The Voice From The Well

14 Jan-22 Feb 2025

PV 18 Jan 2025, 12-2pm

Overview

The Voice From The Well

An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Ed Halsey and Simon Newby exploring their shared interest in abstraction, pattern and repetition.  

Exhibition open daily 10-4 p.m.          Tuesday - Saturday 14.1- 22.2.25

The artists will give a talk in the gallery on 15/02/25 at 12pm, chaired by Jevan Watkins Jones.

Ed Halsey creates small scale two dimensional works that play with a floating sense of time.  With a strong emphasis on colour and line these often photograph or postcard sized paintings focus on the familiar. Delicate stories are rendered with equally delicate marks and brush strokes, making it hard for the viewer’s eye to settle on one focal point within the picture plane. Interiors, landscapes, window views repeat and merge, often sliding into abstraction as the everyday is probed away at, towards a re-imagined world.

Simon Newby manipulates modular objects and materials to create works that play with pattern and movement within two and three-dimensional spaces. Diverse materials are altered or concealed, triggering new ambiguous surfaces and forms. Underpinned by a haphazard linearity, his sculptures have been imagined as drawings in space. In these fleeting sketches, once functional objects and materials slip between the rational and ridiculous, in various states of completion. They begin to offer up a visually enticing logic of their own, which is awkward, unsettling and usually quite funny.

Ed Halsey has a degree in Fine Art from Norwich School of Art and Design and spent over twelve years as a scene painter for the Royal Opera House, London.

Simon Newby has a degree in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London.