Artful Connections 3 - Beyond the Surface

An exhibition of paintings and ceramics from members of Artful Connections, a group of local artists and craftspeople who met originally through Artists Network Bedfordshire and have formed a fellowship over more than fifteen years, nurturing each other’s creativity through informal meetups, sharing of practice, drawing/painting/making sessions, and visits to exhibitions.

The Artful Connections are also variously associated with The ArtistCollective@Westbury, the Visual Images Group in Bucks., the Eagle Gallery Co Operative in Bedford, and The Wynd Gallery in Letchworth. All of us belong to a-n The Artists’ Information Company.

Each of the members of the Artful Connections Group take inspiration from their surroundings, be it natural forms, people, landscape or weather, and transforms these impressions, individually, through unique methods.

In this exhibition the members of the Artful Connections are making connections between the differing ways they each engage with “surface”, whether that be physical – as in the case of ceramics, mixed media or paint – or whether it’s considering the meaning and associations of colour, mark-making and texture.