SYNERGY in the Crypt Gallery

15th June, 4-7pm – Opening Party.

In the show, which runs from Sunday 15 to 20 June, these two talented artists celebrate each other’s uniqueness, while illustrating their combined love of texture, colour and form.

Sally MacCabe lives in St Ives and is known widely for her mixed media work in a signature palette of predominantly subtle blues. This exhibition has provided an opportunity for her to showcase a new body of work which is separate from the collection on display in her studio at Whites Old Workshops in St Ives. These mixed media abstract paintings, 3-D assemblages and book sculptures embrace the beauty and fascination she finds in texture and found objects. Having amassed a huge treasure trove of materials over the years, Sally finds it a constant source of creative inspiration – combining rusty objects picked up on walks, natural seeds and beach finds with vintage documents; Japanese texts; personal letters and ephemera from various eras, together with textured papers and fabrics. Combined with heavily applied acrylics, hand stitching and painted fabrics, Sally creates rich, multi-layered surfaces that intrigue.
Liz Hewitt is based in Bristol and is a well-known mixed media and fibre artist who uses ecologically sustainable processes to colour and mark artisan made cloth, paper & fibres to create collages, abstract paintings, cloth wall hangings, assemblages, books, fibre & paper vessels. A sense of place is central to her work. Walks along the beaches and coast paths, collecting shells, driftwood. rust and other treasure from the strandline, are all memories recorded as impressions of the coastal landscape Liz observes. The rhythm of stitches in her cloths mimicking the ebb and flow of the tide against the shoreline and used by Liz to express the essence of calmness felt as she sits in and walks the landscape, documenting the effects of time and the elements on the natural and manmade objects within the Cornish coastal landscape.