Edges beach memories

Edges beach memories
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22/01/2018
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My work is about routines, time and memory and how the significant episodes in daily life are hung on the frames of routines and rituals we construct. The back drop of a physical environment is subject to change as time passes however in our memory places can stand still. In the most recent paintings I have used the real recorded shapes that were the result of the sea eroding some of the Sea defences in East Runton late last Autumn which were later washed out to sea in the Spring storms. The Edges of the holes were like crafted silver and as such I used them as a precious frame for a playful group of family figures on remembered warm beach days against the beautiful surface of erosion. Collaged paper is used at the edge of the hole to disturbed the oil pained surface. To accompany these I have made many prints about the coast line combining lino printing and photo transfer on embossed paper as well as small observational paintings and reduction lino prints.

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Rosamunde Copping

I was born in 1967 in London and moved to a small village in Cambridgeshire when I was 8 which had a profound effect on the way I observe a sense of place. Missing the diversity and cultural circus made me reflective and joining a small but jolly community in a flat land with huge skies made me…

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