ART FROM THE RIVERBANK AND BEYOND - SUE LAWLEY AND FRIENDS
Betka Milligan is an artist from Poland. She graduated from College Art in Warsaw in Graphic Design/Advertisement. Her love and passion for ceramics was rekindled while she was living and raising her family in Switzerland. Betka moved to Cambridge in 2015, and has her studio here with Cambridge Art Salon.She finds inspiration for her ceramic objects in the everyday world, dense with colors, patterns, and light. Betka loves the long, challenging, and unpredictable process of transforming a lump of earth into an enduring ceramic object which captures a moment of experienced beauty. Over the years she has developed her own unique way of painting with ceramic glazes. betkamilligan.com.
About 15 years ago Sue Lawley began painting again after a long break. She was accepted into the Cambridge drawing society 10 years ago and has exhibited with them and in other local exhibitions. In 2019 she completed a one year diploma in oil painting at the Norfolk Painting School and also joined Cambridge Open studios.
The work is quite wonderful. Friends of the Riverbank will be putting their early bids in for these haunting paintings . In them the artist spirits us to the quasi-mystical land of the river at dawn and twilight in abstract and in more literal form. Sue is poised to take Cambridge by storm with these original and evocative works.
“My paintings explore the effects and interaction of light, water and reflection. While they are based on a time or a place, they communicate the feelings and memories of being there. My series ‘Wild Swimming’ paintings. were done this last year “http://www.Instagram.com/sue.lawley
‘Wow’ was the first reaction of most to the original these creations from Ruth Schmidt ,a Cambridge-based designer-maker. In 2004 she founded her brand QHERE - which turns used materials into funky items. For about a decade, she has been part of the Cambridge Art Salon at Unit13, a centre that brings together artists and designers, from ceramicists and fine artists to children’s book illustrators.
“I up-cycle materials that would otherwise end up in landfills. I transform bicycle inner tubes that have been bouncing around the streets of Cambridge and banners that advertised university festivals, exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum or Cambridge Open Studios into useful items”
You can view her designs at www.qhere.net.
These artists can also be found on the Cambridge Open Studios website along with over 300 others who are exhibiting this July www.cambridgeopenstudios.co.uk
