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Open Studio: Artist Val Jones
Open Studio: Artist Val Jones

Sat 11 Dec

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Maketank @ The Dek

Open Studio: Artist Val Jones

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Time & Location

11 Dec 2021, 10:00 – 16:00

Maketank @ The Dek, 3 Paris St, Exeter EX1 2JB, UK

About the event

Val Jones is a recent resident artist at Maketank as part of Visual Arts Mentorship Programme.  This is her first open studio in time for holidays ! Val's work encompasses 3 main different media: oil painting, printmaking and acrylics.  Check out her website www.valjones.co.uk

Artists Statement:

"Topographical images interest me. I am drawn not to the accurate, descriptive qualities of an outside landscape but to an inner landscape that transcends description yet is highly expressive, being more concerned with a feeling for a place. I enjoy contrasts: looseness and precision, lightness and darkness, the microscopic and macroscopic. I enjoy shimmering colour and the drama of black against vibrant colour. Monotypes, the most painterly form of Printmaking, enables this. As the name suggests, each one is unique. Using printing ink and rollers an image is created on a steel plate and transferred to paper by being pulled through an etching press. I sometimes…

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