Category Archives: Poetry

Press release for Ideal Landscapes

Ideal Landscapes – an exhibition
Pictures and poetry by Artikinesis
Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Totton, Southampton SO40 8FT
5 – 29th November 9AM – 5PM MON – FRI & 10AM – 1PM SAT

2019 UEA literature and creative writing graduate Tanith Lawrey is an exciting new-generation poet with work that is truly one of a kind.  His verses here are contemplations on the pictures in this exhibition. Poetry, pictures, and indeed the airy 18th century barn in which they hang are well worth spending some contemplation time with.  Adeliza Mole’s ideal landscapes are Padworth and the Thames Valley which she has visited and revisited in her work over the years.  Her oil paintings are intimate portrayals of scenes familiar to her.  Every tree and bank is painted true to life and yet transformed into a juicily delicious wonderworld for the senses, recognisable and yet unrecognisable.  Amanda Bates, exploring the upper reaches of the Test, is waylaid by intimate distractions – tyre swings and knobbled tree roots – before opening out into wide wide landscapes.  Crisp and crystal-clear details contrast interestingly with looser treatment, sometimes in the same picture.   Amanda, like Rosemary, has sought to reflect the timber landscape of the barn itself in her framing solutions.  Abstract expressionist Rosemary Lawrey has chosen oil and mixed media to weave landscapes of her past and the meandering paths of a human journey in the world.  Elinor Cooper stands out from all the rest in the simple purity of her visual language with its cool, elemental modernity. A genius of minimalist expression.  I can feel the rain on my face – pure magic. 

Opportunity to meet members of Artikinesis 6:30 – 8:30pm at Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Aikman Lane, Totton, SO40 8FT on Tuesday 5 November – all welcome

Bookface Bookender at the Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading continues Sunday 9 October, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Today Artikinesis took some of our remaining colouring and poetry books to the Bookface Bookender artists’ handmade book fair in Reading where our contributions were admired by many. There was indeed much to admire at all the stalls with some exquisite handmade books. Those of particular note, in my opinion, were ones that explored the relationship between art and science. The Rising Sun arts centre is at 30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST, and is full of life and has a wonderful welcoming atmosphere with plenty going on including bookbinding workshops upstairs during the book fair. If you missed the book fair there is still chance to visit it tomorrow between 11 and 5pm though sadly Artikinesis will not be there tomorrow. You can still obtain a copy of either our colouring book or our beautiful hand-printed, hand-bound poetry book by contacting us through this website. Every one is a unique work of art in itself, or so say our happy customers.

Colour and texture at Blake’s Lock

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Duncan Lawrey reads his poem, Texture, written in response to Adeliza’s Intelligent Congress, part of our exhibition at The Turbine House, Blake’s Lock, Reading.

Riverside Museum at Blake’s Lock, off Kenavon Drive, Reading, RG1 3DH

(access through car park of the Bel and Dragon restaurant)

Exhibition opening times
Every day 17 Sept – 30 Sept: 10.00 – 18.00
Final day 1 October exhibition closes at 15.00

Poet at work

“I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky” – Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
I thought of Oscar Wilde, languishing behind bars on his prison plank just beyond the buildings of Blake’s Lock, as our own young poet, deep in his thoughts, took in the atmosphere of his surroundings.  Come see the results of his musings, and our own painterly responses to poetry and place between 17 September and 1 October.  Expect some very deep stuff.