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BEAUTIFUL AND USEFUL � ART FOR THE HOME
Tuesday 28th February 2012
On Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th March 2012, Arts Alive Wales, the charitable arts organisation based in Crickhowell, is holding an exhibition and Sale of Art and Craft, at Porthmawr Country House, Crickhowell, to raise funds for its community programme and to launch its friends scheme. Entitled Beautiful and Useful – Art for the Home, the event will showcase contemporary artists and makers such as Tom Hallifax, Annika Neumuller, Roy Powell, Kumar Saraff, Mary Zammit and Bettina Reeves. It also features a retrospective to celebrate the work of sculptor Catharine Marr-Johnson, ARBS, SPS, who lives and works in Crickhowell and is a trustee of the charity.Viewing and sales will be from 2-5pm on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th March 2012 (entry £3 adults, accompanied children free). For more information, visit the website www.artsalivewales.org.uk and for tickets to the private view on Friday 16th March contact Justine Wheatley at Arts Alive on 01873 811579, email [email protected].
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Catharine Marr Johnson, is an associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and member of The Society of Portrait Sculptors, and has completed public and private commissions that create intimate and sensitive portrayals alive with personality and character. William Gibbs, Chair of Brecknock Art Trust, comments: “If you cross Battersea bridge onto the south bank of the Thames and make your way downstream along the riverside path you will walk below two swans, wings fully spread , about to launch themselves across the water. These are the work of Catharine Marr-Johnson commissioned in 1984. The artist has caught the birds at the moment when weight becomes weightlessness, when the birds lumbering run is about to become powerful elegance. This work is one of the most successful pieces of site specific art in London and demonstrates the artist’s ability to catch a moment in time.”
Other site specific work includes the Peter Pan fountain, a playful and intimate study of a boy with otters, which was commissioned for the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. Her creative impulse also takes the form of works for the garden; a sundial trapping the sun between the wings of birds in flight to mark the hours, a screen of birds for her garden gate in Crickhowell.
Catharine Marr Johnson, is an associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and member of The Society of Portrait Sculptors, and has completed public and private commissions that create intimate and sensitive portrayals alive with personality and character. William Gibbs, Chair of Brecknock Art Trust, comments: “If you cross Battersea bridge onto the south bank of the Thames and make your way downstream along the riverside path you will walk below two swans, wings fully spread , about to launch themselves across the water. These are the work of Catharine Marr-Johnson commissioned in 1984. The artist has caught the birds at the moment when weight becomes weightlessness, when the birds lumbering run is about to become powerful elegance. This work is one of the most successful pieces of site specific art in London and demonstrates the artist’s ability to catch a moment in time.”
Other site specific work includes the Peter Pan fountain, a playful and intimate study of a boy with otters, which was commissioned for the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. Her creative impulse also takes the form of works for the garden; a sundial trapping the sun between the wings of birds in flight to mark the hours, a screen of birds for her garden gate in Crickhowell.
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