PETE MOUNTFORD

Pete lives and works in London, yet has also practiced in New York.  Originally creating ceramic sculpture, Pete now produces paintings and mixed media works which predominately utilise systems and sequence. He has developed a system of applying designated colours to numbers, through either the appropriation of what exists or by his own interpretation. He is interested in the dialogues which can be developed from individual works that create a related series if hung together.  The individual modules or panels of the same multi-component work or an individual area of the same work creates a cognitive dialogue within them to be explored.  More recently Pete has utilised landscape as system, creating a narrative that nudges the borders of abstraction and experiments with the correlation of time, looking, experiencing and relating to space.

SANDY LLOYD

Sandy creates work that is primarily about landscape, but not landscape that can be easily read or which comforts us with its familiarity or solidarity. It is about half worlds, shifting horizons, ambiguous perspectives and tricks of the light. It is a landscape of secrets and puzzles. Sandy has developed a set of techniques to mirror this, from behind the many veils of transparent or dripped colour and the gestural brushstrokes, emerge hidden forms, detail, fragments of architecture and cryptic pieces of text. 

"I've travelled widely, making sketches everywhere I go. I've also collected images, maps, tickets, snatches of conversation and notes on my thoughts and feelings. These are assembled worlds that resonate with hidden emotions, paths intertwining, synchronicity and secret lives."

TREVOR WOOD

“My work, which can be considered perceptual rather than conceptual, responds to my environment, my involvement with it and the relationship I have to it.”

Over the years, themes and phases frequently re-occur in the work but one constant is the reliance on landscape imagery and a connection to the land - it defines the content. The post-industrial urban landscapes are imbued with an essence of the socio/political - the movement of communities and social changes are seen as metaphor in the decay of the facades and structures of the buildings - ephemeral and vulnerable to change but, stripped back down to basic simplicity and starkness. These urban landscapes are in contrast to the wilderness images informed by solitary highland walks, natural phenomena, wide open spaces and the natural environment. Both focus the desolation and decay - the epitome of the end of a cycle and the beginning of regeneration.