PRESS
RELEASE
Artist
Talk - Friday 21st May, 7pm
Tory
Lawrence will be giving a talk about the work on view in Gallery 1,
Ancient
Land.
All
welcome.
£2.50* doors open at
6.45pm
Part of an ongoing series of talks
and discussions in collaboration with Artists for Arts Sake, Mid-Suffolk District Council.
*Free to Artists for Arts Sake members (artsdevelopment@midsuffolk.gov.uk)
For info contact, Julia
Devonshire, Arts Project Officer, Town Hall Galleries,Ipswich Borough Council,
T: +44 (0) 1473 432862, E:
julia.devonshire@ipswich.gov.uk
Tory
Lawrence
Ancient
Land
Open
until Saturday 22
May 2010
10am to 5pm
ADMISSION FREE
The Town Hall Galleries are pleased
to present the second in a double bill of exhibitions that demonstrate different responses to the formal and
conceptual exploration of landscape.
“I
respond to the huge variety found in our landscape. A particular
tree against a particular sky. A cornfield bright under the
sun. Relics of buildings vulnerable to the passing of time. I draw
in situ, working to combine intimate detail with the vast movement of
light between land and sky.
From these drawings I distil the essence of the
subject into small oil paintings. They have a life of their own
where the “progress” and destruction of man no longer
threatens..”
Tory Lawrence, March
2010
Tory Lawrence’s body of
paintings, Ancient
Land incites
excitement and intensity to the subject of landscape, which is so often
tediously, photographically or banally rendered. This quality is realised by
Lawrence’s depth and sensitivity to details - the precise lie of the land, a
particular drift of a cloud, the strange mystery of a relic of a
church.
The lavish use of oil paint enlivens the image surface and
we enjoy the sense of being there: walking the plough, climbing the hillside,
crunching the snow, or encountering Framlingham Castle as if for the first time
under constantly changing skies. Through a fresh and original vision Lawrence
portrays a sense of history as it acts upon the present to combine memory,
imagination and true observation.
Catalogue available from Gallery 2, £5. Works are for
sale.
The Town Hall
Galleries
Ipswich Borough Council
e:
visualarts@ipswich.gov.uk
tel: +44 (0)1473 432863
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