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information: 832-3716
569 Route 121, Bloomfield NB
www.studiotour-nb.com
Join us for demonstrations and sampling!
November 29 to December 7
Saturday & Sunday open 10 - 5
Monday & Tuesday 10 - 5
Wednesday to Friday 10 - 8pm
Artisans include: Jenn Carson-Garnhum, Andrew Giffin, Sharyn Gulliver, Helga Lobb, Sue & Kathy Hooper, Alison Murphy, Brent Rourke, Mary Ann Sartini, Carl Taylor, Pat Mercer & Alice Witney, Soap Works, James Wilson
John Murphy and Darren Byers
November 2nd - November 23, Hooper Studios Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of work by printmaker and painter John Murphy and sculptor and woodcarver Darren Byers.
Open every Saturday from 11 to 4, most afternoons but call ahead to confirm and by appointment. 832-5255 or 650-3333
View an exciting group of work from two artists who see the world from very personal perspectives. Everyone is welcome.
John Murphy has had a long career as a teacher of art in this province, and has been an inspiration to many students of the area. Now retired he has at last got time to do his own work.
He will be showing a number of moving prints dealing with the human condition and in particular the rights we all should have as human beings. His large acrylic paintings, were inspired by a visit to South Africa he made recently and are full of the feel of that beautiful country.
Darren Byers, has a deep understanding and respect for the medium of wood and works from his heart. From the wood, figures and ideas emerge which are sometimes answers to questions he asks himself about how he is as a person and as an artist.
He has spent his working life learning what wood can do and apart from being a sculptor he is also a fine cabinet maker.
He has had many commissions the latest of which was the carved figure of John Peters Humphrey which was recently installed on the court house lawn in Hampton.
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Beyond Words
A travelling exhibition of hand made "books" - ‘Beyond Words’, is the work of nineteen celebrated regional artists: Jim Boyd, Linda Brine, Darren Byers, Brigitte Clavette, George Fry, Toby Graser, Fred Harrison, Susan Vida Judah, Suzanne Hill, Kathy Hooper, Sue Hooper, Elma McKay, Andrea Meeson, Brian Meeson, Alison Murphy, John Murphy, Peter Powning, Karen Shackleton, Peter Thomas, which will travel to Fredericton, Moncton and Halifax over the next few months.
The exhibition Beyond words is a challenge to conventionality. Verbal language has powerful links to our conscious and subconscious selves, and as such may function as a means of manipulation and constraint, imposed on us by others, or springing from ourselves as a means of self-justification. Too often words inhibit the primal response, the genuine impulses we experience before we crush our feelings into constructed language. Thom Gunn refers to “the dark before of truth”. Love, instinctive kindness, deep fears are not created because we articulate them, but rather arise in a current of emotional honesty. All the works in this exhibit explore the concept of ‘book’ from that deep current which exists within us and which defies the constraints of ‘word’.
Our deepest and truest response is not linguistic, it is sentient, direct; it is, ultimately, wordless.
Pip Murphy
Kings County Studio Artists Christmas Sale at the Barn in Bloomfield
Call 832-3716 Shop from a selection of one-of-a-kind original art. Everyone welcome!
