This is a group show comprised of students from Kingston Adult Education painting class, all of whom share a love of painting.

The exhibition is a fund-raiser with 20% of the sales of all artworks going to support relief efforts in Ukraine.

The dialogue between the artist and viewer is unique and personal and can change over time.

What makes the connection?

”Through these works, we can observe a physical transition from the representational to the abstract, vice versa, and vice versa again in multiple directions, like a game of catch between a circle of people who have entirely different ideas and identities. Some paintings depict portraits and landscapes quite undoubtedly, whereas others nod towards these depictions through shapes and colours that, when put together, give an impression of these motifs we are familiar with.

Like this first image for example; Through the combination of incomplex brush strokes, vibrant colours, subconscious dabs and lines, one can understand the painting as potentially a seascape with fauna in the foreground on a warm evening - another observer may perceive the painting as something entirely different just though their own understandings of colour connotations and perceptions of painterly agency.

This exhibition intends to negotiate the audiences relationships to paintings of this matter, what does it mean for a practice to be representational? What causes us to hold particular connections with certain works and not others? What can these works suggest through their relationships with one another?

It's a beautiful thing to see dialogues emerge from these questions. They are unique and personal.”

-Kate Brett

Artists:

Cynthia Bonell, Helen Williams, Diane Stevens, Lesley Searle, Gillian Jebb, John Parrish, Gill Beales, David Peasgood, Pat Colbert, Claire Hewson, and Pat Marshall

Curated by Kate Brett