Synergy

An exhibition of abstract painting, collage, fibre art, print, books & sculptural forms

This exhibition by St Ives based mixed media artist Sally MacCabe and Bristol based mixed media and fibre artist Liz Hewitt, is an opportunity to celebrate each other’s uniqueness, whilst illustrating their combined love of texture, colour and form to create an impactful exhibition of abstract painting, fibre art, print & sculptural forms.

Sally is known widely for her mixed media work in a signature palette of subtle blues but this exhibition is a chance for her to show a new body of abstract paintings, 3-D assemblages and book sculptures that embrace the beauty and fascination she has 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 is well known for her use of 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.