A walkthrough of the Bowley & Workman exhibition in Bruton, moving from outdoor sculptures to paintings and mixed-media works. Katie Cudden makes garden sculptures like a swan with a Hoover nozzle. Lydia Gifford paints in oil on wet scrim, a difficult technique that gives the work a visceral quality.
So there's the current Bowley and Workman exhibition in Bruton, and, um, starting with this sculpture in the garden. I'll add details about the exhibition. So I started with that one, so this is another piece by that artist. Let's see what her name is. Yeah, so Katie Cudden. It's rather interesting, sort of swan with a Hoover nozzle. The other one is sort of like a vessel. And then the other sculptor is Daniel Silva. Family portraits here. Reminds me a little bit of Glen Brown's sculptures. Then here we have Roy Oxlade, I think. Let me just check. Is that Roy? No, sorry, Lydia Gifford. So these are oil on scrim, and apparently when she's working on these, the scrim is very wet, so it's a real challenge to actually apply the oil to the scrim. See, they're very visceral paintings. Then we have Kim Buka. Again, a very visceral surface. And then this one is a royal ox head. And again, a very energetic surface. And then round the back here is Alice Cattle. Apparently there's a big exhibition in the Royal West of England Academy at the moment, so these are very textual works, lots of sewing and Staining. Monkey mad. And then two more of hers here, a small one. And this large one. So yeah, very interesting exhibition. And then upstairs we've got More of their collection. Yeah, so there we have William Workman in Bruton.
