'Handbuilt  Ceramics

1991 - Present'

 

An exhibition from the collection of her own work by Jenny Morten

 

 

January 20th - February 18th 2018

 

 

 

 

 'Drawing - A Starting Point'

 

An Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels and Monoprints

 

by

Geoff Morten

 

 

 

GEOFF MORTEN STATEMENT ON DRAWING

 

' I began working in my California studio in October 2003 by making a series of paintings which were intended to reflect the newness of my surroundings and re-evaluate the previous work which had been made in the UK, but it soon became apparent that more was to be gained through embarking on a period of intense drawing.

 

Every day I would make a large number of drawings and pin them on the studio wall arranging them into thematically related groups. As they developed a number of images and motifs kept recurring - hands, heads, tools, chairs and tables together with childhood memories of containers, (bread tins used for baking - my father was a baker).

 

If an image or group of images kept reappearing, almost in spite of themselves, they began to obsess me and I had to use them.

 

I liked the idea that these 'seemingly' new images were somehow close to my immediate experience. They had a certain authority and integrity which I could relate to and yet I needed to locate and construct a pictorial situation which would contain and contextualise them.’

 

Geoff Morten

April 2007

 

Drawings range in size from 11" x 18" to  20" x 16" using a variety of media including graphite, charcoal and ink.

 

 

 January 20th - February 18th 2018

 

 

Morten Gallery

12 High Street, Old Town, Bridlington, YO16 4PX

 

Opening Hours:

10am - 4pm Wednesday to Sunday

Closed - Monday and Tuesday