Claire Buddle
ART . DESIGN . ILLUSTRATION
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION
PARKSCAPES : IMAGES OF LLOYD PARK
HORSE CHESTNUT LEAVES (detail) (Acrylic on paper)
CHANGING ROOM GALLERY ___6TH - 17TH JUNE 2001
noon-6pm__ weds-fri________ 10am-6pm__ weekends
CLOSE TO THE WILLIAM MORRIS GALLERY___LLOYD PARK___ WALTHAMSTOW___ LONDON
Changing Room Gallery Map - Leisure, Entertainment and Tourism
Focusing on Lloyd Park, Walthamstow, an exhibition of painting, photography, sculpture and digital imagery exploring this small urban park, home to the William Morris museum. Used mainly by local people for walking, playing, and passing through, the park provides a context for discovery and for reflection on its place and history. The pieces shown in the exhibition reflect the influence of William Morris, including decorative and design-oriented works. Some examples are reproduced below.
SEED (crayon drawing)
TREE (mixed media collage on canvas 77x51cm)
LADY OF THE WOODS (Watercolour and tempera on paper 29x21cm)(SILVER BIRCH)
COLUMNS OF BRANCHES (pencil drawing & digital painting)
ICON (Digital Photo Manipulation)
(Columns of branches and icon are all images derived from the same photograph taken in Lloyd Park)
In addition to the pieces reproduced here, paintings and digital imagery on canvas will be shown, as well as many works on paper, and reproductions. Prices range from £50-£450.
CLAIRE BUDDLE IS ALSO EXHIBITING IN A GROUP SHOW AT THE SAME VENUE
"TARMAC AND TREES : THE WILLIAM MORRIS LEGACY"______ 19TH JUNE - 1ST JULY 2001
OTHER WORKS BY CLAIRE BUDDLE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The images shown are from a group of paintings illustrating text from Shakespeare's play.
TITANIA DREAMS OF INDIA (Acrylic on canvas 127x76cm)
Titania
His mother was a votaress of my order: And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
Full often hath she gossiped by my side, And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,
Marking the embarked traders on the flood; When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive
And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait
Following,- her womb then rich with her young squire,- Would imitate, and sail upon the land,
To fetch me trifles, and return again, As from a voyage, rich with merchandise,
But she, being mortal, of that boy did die; And for her sake I do rear up her boy,
And for her sake I will not part with him.
THE LOVER (Watercolour 59x42cm)
Theseus
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is the madman; the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!
"Sooner or later they would die of incomprehension"
(text from The War of Don Emanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres)
A fine art project currently in development for exhibition in a NELIA group show during Autumn 2001 at The Spitz Gallery, Spitalfields. The work is not directly related to the de Bernieres novel, but takes this one line of text as being of relevance to the artist's life, work, and the creative context in which she works.
THEATRE WORK
COSTUME AND PROPS DESIGN
1066 AND ALL THAT
WILLIAM AND MARY OF ORANGE ( Elaine Elliott and Andy Gillies)
NAVIGATOR AND COMMON MAN (Ann Housden & Matthew Jones)
SAILORGIRLS (Ellen & Tessa Buddle)
1066 And All That was a large scale community production for the Millennium directed by Michael Michael, staged at Harlow Theatre, Essex and Lloyd Park Theatre, Walthamstow during April 2000. All costumes and properties, for 30 actors playing almost 100 roles, by Claire Buddle.
Other productions Claire has designed and made costumes for include outdoor shows in Essex and Islington of A Midsummer Night's Dream (June 1999), and The Three Musketeers by Willis Hall (June 2000).
