The Alexander Centre Alexander Collection 2017 Collection Alexander The Alexander Collection The Alexander Centre The Alexander Centre is a Community Interest Company (CIC) and was established in 2010 with the aim of maintaining and developing Gatefield House in Faversham (now renamed the Alexander Centre) as a cultural and community centre for all the people of Faversham, and the surrounding villages. This large Grade II Listed building (circa 1860) was originally built as a family home but from 1943 was used as the Faversham Town Hall and Council Offices. By 2010 the building had become too costly for the Borough Council to maintain and The Alexander Centre CIC took it over that year to operate the building for the local community on a commercial but not-for- profit basis; leasing office space and hiring out rooms and the main hall as a venue for a wide range of community events. Art in The Alexander Centre Since 2010 The Alexander Centre CIC has made significant progress building up income and carefully investing in and restoring this historic and prestigious building in the heart of Faversham. It was apparent when the public rooms were restored that the walls could also become an asset to the community if we could use them to display and showcase modern art; so the idea of The Alexander Collection was conceived. From the start The Alexander Collection was devised as a win-win opportunity for all concerned; for professional artists, by offering them a year-long showcase for their work at no cost to themselves; for a local community based art gallery, providing additional display and gallery space and for The Alexander Centre, benefiting from works of art on our walls that we could otherwise not afford, to enhance our visitor experience. 2017 will be the third season of the Collection, each year to date we have displayed work of at least 3 professional artists in the ground floor public rooms. The Alexander Collection - Our Vision Now that the Alexander Collection has been established our vision is: “To showcase art by local professional artists in surroundings that enhance both their work and the building, such that it becomes The event that artists aspire to participate in”. Throughout 2017 we will present the third Season of The Alexander Collection and continue to work towards meeting our Vision by; • identifying and appointing a ‘Patron’ and a number of ‘Friends of The Alexander Collection’ with professional backgrounds of working in and promoting the arts, who will provide some strategic guidance to the evolution of The Alexander Collection. • recruiting a broad based ‘Selection Panel’ with a range of skills and a background of working in the arts, to select the work to be displayed each year. • seeking the recognition of local and national arts’ institutes to give their support to our vision for The Alexander Collection. • reserving a section of the exhibition each year for emerging and inspiring new local young artists. Proud sponsors of digital art / illustration ‘The Alexander website building booklets Collection posters 2017’ banners flyers & leaflets logos branding letterheads cd/dvd/music album art film editting Find us on Facebook and Twitter mac™ tuition STRIPEY LIZARD CREATIVE SERVICES LTD . one abbey street faversham kent me13 7be ☎: 07749 444 008 : www.stripeylizard.co.uk ☞: [email protected] Alumni Artists 2016 Wendy Broer Aaron McArdle Wendy McNaught Cherryl Fountain 2015 Antony Bream Barry Fincham Cherryl Fountain Paul Fowler David Hayward The Alexander Collection 2017 Alexander Centre CIC Creek Creative CIC Sponsored by: Faversham Charter Market Stripey Lizard Creative Services Ltd Swale Borough Council Josephine Harvatt www.harvattworks.co.uk Down on the Allotment © J Harvatt Since graduating in 1996 with a B.A. in Fine Art, Josephine has sold and exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She has also participated in various public art projects including a residency at The Beaney Museum and Art Gallery, a mural for Foyles bookshop in London, and a yacht sail design for White Horses of Whitstable. Josephine finds inspiration in the landscapes and townscapes of Britain, and her influences range from Klee and Hunderwasser to folk art and textile works. Her paintings form an ongoing exploration of the use of colour and mark making; her overarching aim is to create harmonies of colour and balances of form that intrigue the eye and cheer the heart. Title Dimensions £ Down on the Allotment 60 cm x 60 cm 350 Canterbury Castle 76 cm x 60 cm 375 City Life 70cm x 100 cm 650 Now and Then 30 cm x 60 cm 175 The Village 50 cm x 40 cm 150 Autumn Bonfire 20 cm x 20 cm 125 Bottom of the Garden 25 cm x 25 cm 125 Autumn Gold 15 cm x 15 cm 50 Barley Fields 15 cm x 15 cm 50 Forest Flame 15 cm x 15 cm 50 You may purchase artwork direct from the Artist or from Anne McLaren at Creek Creative (01795 535515) Moira Hyde www. moirahyde.wordpress.com The Sea, The Sea (detail) © M. Hyde Moira is a practising artist based in Faversham. She trained in languages and administration but, while studying, developed an interest in creativity. She was involved in the formation of a community arts project in the Medway Towns (Arts in Medway, renamed Spiral Arts), later becoming Director of the organisation. When Spiral Arts ceased operations, Moira decided to pursue her own creativity, particularly in the fields of painting, writing and photography. Her visual artwork is characterised by vibrant use of colour and bold shapes, forming compositions that trigger the imagination and provide a space for contemplation. She uses oils for her larger paintings and mixed media including acrylics, pencils, pens and printing inks for smaller pieces. Title Dimensions £ Allegiances 49 cm x 39 cm* 320 Blue Magic 51 cm x 51 cm 243 Carnaval Parade 60 cm x 60 cm 262 Meet the Family 56 cm x 41 cm* 320 Taking my Fish to Market 39 cm x 46 cm* 282 The Sea, the Sea 70 cm x 60 cm 274 Tunnel Vision 70 cm x 60 cm 274 *Inside frame You may purchase artwork direct from the Artist or from Anne McLaren at Creek Creative (01795 535515) Estelle Jourd [email protected] Summer Evening (detail) © E. Jourd Estelle’s work is inspired by the sea and sky of the North Kent coast where she has lived most of her life. As a sailor she has experienced at first hand the sea, it’s changing moods and seasons. Inspired by her emotional response to the elements she paints intuitively in her studio from experience and memories. Working on wood or canvas with a palette knife the paintings evolve over a period of time, building layers of paint until the history of marks and colours create the desired texture and form. Estelle exhibits extensively locally and has shown her work in London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Cornwall. Estelle lives in Seasalter. Title Dimensions £ Gathering Storm 122 cm x 92 cm 1500 High Sea 127 cm x 159 cm 1750 High Summer 127 cm x 159 cm 1750 Sea and Sky 122 cm x 92 cm 1500 Summer Evening 130 cm x 90 cm 950 You may purchase artwork direct from the Artist or from Anne McLaren at Creek Creative (01795 535515) Angela Rumble www.angelarumble.co.uk Woodland (detail) © A Rumble Angela studied Fine Art to MA level at UCA in Canterbury. She currently combines time in the studio with her first career as a dentist. The countryside, in particular the woods, has long been a source of solace and respite from the stresses of life. Working in oils from her own photographs which are altered and manipulated to accentuate the intricacies of the natural world and which may include unexpected man-made structures that she happens upon. Fragments of the landscape are broken down into more abstract elements which are worked on in the paintings to give obsessive and sometimes confusing detail which hovers between the abstract and the figurative. Some unnatural colour may creep in, referring both to technology and to the solarisation of pinhole camera images. The paintings work on a filigree of branches that inflect a sense of the unnerving – a labyrinth in which to explore and get lost. Title Dimensions £ Larches 47 in x 40 in 650 Pylon 24 in x 36 in 400 Target for Tonight 37 in x 48 in 650 (Chatham) Woodland diptych 48 in x 36 in 550 Woodland (1) 24 in x 36 in 450 Woodland (2) 36 in x 24 in 450 Woodland (3) 25 in x 19 in 400 Woodland (4) 32 in x 25 in 400 Woodland (5) 21 in x 15 in* 190 (two framed prints) *Inside frame You may purchase artwork direct from the Artist or from Anne McLaren at Creek Creative (01795 535515) Sarah Stokes www.sarahstokes.co.uk Walking in the Dark (detail) © S. Stokes Sarah is a musical artist who paints in an intuitive and improvisatory fashion. In her late thirties she reached a crossroads and through SGI Buddhist practice, found the courage and realised she was an artist. Painting is one way to explore and enable Sarah to make sense of whatever is going on in her life... distilled through her senses and life states... expressed with colour and energy. There is a freshness about the work which is a freeing and joyful process, sometimes evolving into stories - or freescapes... telling a story to the viewer. Sarah usually works with charcoal, oil, acrylic and ink. She also loves the apparent randomness of abstract photos, which are being developed.