Coffee and Cake is my latest oil painting and it is the first of my whimsical food paintings. Inspired by my student days as a waitress when I wheeled unsteady sweet trolleys, this painting recalls the memory of cream laden confections. My initial intention was to make the cream swirls as high as the coffee pot. Alas the strong directional light/mountain of cream combination didn’t work. The problems we artists face! The painting will be on show at 16 Gallery Cheltenham in August. These are the details:
Art Exhibition – Inside-Outside – Nicola Currie and Sally Morgan At Sixteen Gallery, Cheltenham. 10th-16th August (closed Monday 14th). 16, Rotunda Terrace, Montpellier St, Cheltenham GL50 1SW. Opening Times Tuesday to Saturday 10.30am-4.30pm. On Sunday 10.30am-4.00pm. Free entrance every day.
Inside-Outside is an exhibition I am doing with my friend, print-maker and pastellist, Sally Morgan. We have created a body of work which explores the inside world of a still life and the outside world of landscapes, street scenes and flowers and gardens.
Sally is a founder member and organiser of Worcestershire Open Studios and takes her inspiration from the landscape; interpreting it both in pastel and reduction print. Working in pastels enables Sally a freer expressive style, whilst with reduction print she interprets the landscape through line and blocks of colour. As a 2019 finalist in a national art competition, her work was exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London, and on other occasions she has been selected to exhibit at the RBSA in Birmingham.
Do come and visit us during the show.