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Cranleigh Exhibition
The Water Lilies Series is being exhibited in the Cranleigh Arts Centre, Surrey from Sept 16th until October 12th 2023.
The address of the venue:
Cranleigh Arts,
1 High Street, Cranleigh,
Surrey, GU6 8AS
Link: https://cranleigharts.org/event/celebrating-art-exhibition/
Celebrating Artists Exhibition
The Exhibition opened on July 11th. Fiona Scott-Wilson has 6 works in the exhibition.
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Preparing for the Exhibition
The Water Lilies series started with a visit to Paris, the Musee D’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie to see The Impressionists and Monet’s Waterlilies. Fiona returned to nature as a source of inspiration after extending the Beach Series and introducing the Bathers, which were explorations of Impressionist art through the Cut Paper method she has perfected. Leaving Only Footprints is a fine example of a new realism and use of new colours from Italian papers. The secret of good paper art is mostly technique, precision with cutting using a scalpel, and using fine grade multiple shades of papers with their subtle and strong colours is essential. The River Bathers explored refraction in water and featured the water lilies that became the locus of Fiona’s next series. Back to life, water birds and creatures in an eruption of colour and light, the expressions of animals serving as judgement on the viewer and yet giving you the sense that nature is not aware of your presence. The first of these works, The Great Egret was a return to large scale statements about nature.
The works that followed form the Water Lily Series. These have been selected for Exhibition in July – August 2023 and are now available as original framed works exclusively at the exhibition, or in our new range of stunningly beautiful Giglee Prints with ice-white mounting boards.
Why Buy from FSW Gallery
You may ask: why buy from FSW Gallery? Because you are buying direct from the artist. Fiona Scott-Wilson’s hands make images and Software Antelope Ltd (her partner’s company) provides an online infrastructure for her to get her superb works out to the public at an affordable price. We work as a team with the artist to build a supportive online infrastructure. We keep prices accessible to the average person, and experiment with content format, advertising and social media to find successful ways to market the arts in today’s troubled world. What is art when there is a family to feed? We appreciate that life is hard for the many, but children who grow up with art and nature may develop awareness about the world and care about their future. We believe strongly that social development is strongly linked to an appreciation of value and aesthetic development is crucial. Bringing colour and life into the living rooms of your family and friends is an expression of love and connection during these times when we can not be together. There is something wonderful about receiving a message in an art-card that itself can be framed and kept or enjoyed even briefly. We print art cards for that purpose, both small inexpensive ones and large ones for display.
We would love to hear from you with your ideas of things we could offer to you, what you would love to see – for example one customer asked Fiona if she had made any works with hedgehogs. You can imagine that cut-paper as a medium would be a challenge with a creature with thousands of spines! Of course she had not, but she was inspired to make a custom image and made a 73 year old lady very happy.
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