JANETTE KERR – DECEMBER/JANUARY RESIDENCY
………A very windy night, with a risk of gales around coasts and hills. Outbreaks of rain will turn increasingly heavy and persistent through the early hours. Minimum Temperature 8 °C. ………Remaining continue…
JEAN WINTER – PAINTER AND ALAN BALMER – COMPOSER
All was very inspiring. As I was interested in the relationship between the fluid, ever-changing (yet also consistent and persistent!) nature of the sea, against the apparent solidity and strength continue…
JANIE MCLEOD – ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST PAINTER
I arrive at Brisons with no plan in mind as to what sort of work I will do or what view I will paint. I never do preparatory sketches but continue…
JOANNA SIMS AND PHILIP LEEVERS – OCTOBER RESIDENCY
The weather was superbly calm for the time of year enabling us to make more outdoor work than expected, so we both made the most of the daytime light. I continue…
GINNY EPSTEIN – HANDMADE FELTWORK
Ginny found inspiration from medieval carvings on church pews…. I needed to reinvigorate my work by returning to source and exploring drawing and photography at some of the ancient and continue…
JUDY WILLOUGHBY – DRAWINGS AND MONOPRINTS
I set out to make a book about the activity at Priest’s cove, which I did, but I was also excited by the landscape and remains of buildings in the continue…
MARTIN EDWARDS – PHOTOGRAPHY
Martin continued his project begun on the Isles of Scilly, capturing images of neolithic remains and ‘land marks’…. It was good to have a specific focus for the time spent continue…
URSULA LEACH – MONOPRINTS
I had the most brilliant time at Brisons Veor in October, drawing and screen monoprinting subjects I never usually do: the sea and the line/division between the sea and the continue…
JACKI STOREY – ‘STARGAZER’
Jacki’s work was inspired by the night sky at Cape Cornwall….. “So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing” Eliot, T.S.,East Coker, Four Quartets The desire continue…
JACQUI PARKINSON – LIFE, LOSS & LAUNDRIES
My project centred around the destitute women and children resident in the Devon House of Mercy in the 1900s and the remarkable life of Mabel Carvolth told in her autobiography continue…