Corinne Renow-Clarke
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Corinne loves the meditative rhythm of hand stitching, the sensuous feel of cloth in the hand and the way the stitches make their own texture. Walking in the lanes and fields around her home, each day she finds that the same views are different, altered by time, light and weather. The land is overlaid with an ever-changing pattern of farming tempered by nature. Her work explores the patterns to be found in the local Cotswold landscape - field patterns and water ripples, standing stones and mythical creatures, archaeological artefacts & peoples long gone. Some pieces are sculptural figures reminiscent of the soft shapes of hills and others use the textures more abstractly.
Her new work is mixed media. The 3D jug series is based on sketches, drawn on a journey to Cornwall last autumn. Glimpses of people and places seen whilst travelling appear remote and unreal as if viewed in the third person. A domestic jug, found in the kitchen of an old house, imbued with the memories, contains them and brings them home. Whenever, or wherever, you travel a cup of tea is always welcome at the end of a journey – it refreshes the mind and lifts the spirit. The cup series is based on cups drawn in museums whilst travelling round the country.
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