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Pop up Artists Exhibition with the following four artists - Laura Darling , Clara Wilkinson, Kate Harries and Joanna Farrow.

Kate Harries
is a contemporary landscape artist based in Hurstpierpoint. Following courses at Central Saint Martins and Heatherly Art School she has developed a style of painting that responds intuitively and emotionally to the land and the quality of light. 
Brought up in rural Devon, she has always felt a connection to the countryside. Moving to the South Downs has given her a chance to explore a new landscape. 
Sketches made "en plein air", out on the Downs and through all seasons are then developed in the studio. Kate paints in oil with a preference for more natural pigments and a softer palette. Sound, light, space, weather - each painting is a moment in time out in nature. 
theleafcollector@hotmail.com

Web” kateharriesart.com

IG: theleafcollector

Laura Darling
is an artist from Brighton. She uses oils and mark making in pastel and pencil to capture atmosphere, space and silence. Drawn to northern light and the shapes of field and boundary, she explores the bones of the land below, the feeling of the weather above and the paths that people make. Using a fairly muted, chalky colour palette, she finds lines of light, slivers of colour that draw the eye and pull the viewer into the landscape.

She’s also interested in the domestic landscapes that still life creates, collecting fruit and flowers and favourite objects to concentrate on colour and form.

She studied painting the Art Academy in London and has exhibited with the RSBA and was shortlisted for the Jacksons Art Prize. Her work is in collections at home and abroad.

www.lauradarlingart.co.uk
@lauradarlingart
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Clara Wilkinson
I’m an artist who grew up in South London before relocating to Brighton in 2017. I trained at Central Saint Martins and the London Guildhall.
I am inspired by nature but my paintings are also about memory and the passing of time.
I like to sketch outdoors on the South Downs, Somerset or sometimes in Andalucía, Spain using watercolours or a pen before returning to my studio to work in oil paint on stretched canvas, linen or on large-scale paper. I find great beauty and depth in the overlooked – weeds, dried seed heads, fading wild flowers or the abstracted shapes of dark and light deep in the landscape.
My new series of work is grounded in nature, but increasingly abstracted and gestural. Abstraction enables me to transmit feelings in an attempt to hang on to the memory of a moment that has passed. This might be a conversation, a chance encounter or an emotion.
I exhibit and sell me work through my twice yearly Brighton Artists Open House and exhibitions with galleries in Brighton and London.
www.clarawilkinsonart.com Instagram @clarawilkinsonart

JOANNA Farrow

Most of my paintings are of landscapes, inspired in particular by my local surroundings and my love of trees. I work mainly with oils, adding pastels, charcoal, acrylics and oil bars to enhance the mark making and add depth. I am generally drawn to the soft muted colours of the British landscape, adding bursts of seasonal vibrancy. The nearby Ashdown Forest, local lakes, farmland and coastline provide me with a wealth of inspiration. Besides brushes, I use my hands, sticks and rags as tools to move paint around and see what textures and forms emerge. I am naturally drawn to light, movement and atmosphere in my work. Whatever my intention in a painting, the process usually evolves with the painting taking its own course. I have learnt to let this happen as I find that the core ‘sense of place’ within the painting remains.
joanna@joannafarrow.co.uk

Web: Art.joannafarrow.co.uk

IG: joannafarrowart

and we shall also be joined by Jib Hagan with his Care4baskets stand and Sussex Wildlife Trust .

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