Travel inspired paintings by Mary Price - the ‘artistintheshed' Tobacco Factory main bar Monday 5 September to Monday 2 October 2016 Bristol painter Mary Price will be showing a selection of paintings made during 2015 and 2016 at the main bar and cafe at Bristol's Tobacco Factory from Monday 5 September until Monday 2 October. The paintings are reflections of Mary's love of travel and based on impressions from randomly wandering around narrow back streets in the older quarters of cities in Spain and Portugal. This series includes imaginary homes painted intuitively in acrylic on canvas. There will also be giclee print reproductions of most of the paintings on display available. Mary Price said, "Walking around the back streets of cities like Porto or Tavira I'm struck by the beauty and the detail etched into old buildings by the ravages of weather and time. I'm drawn to the impasto of layers of peeling paint, decay, graffiti, worn relief, chipped tiles and the way nature invades architecture left uncared for. "The resulting paintings are not representational in any sense but more a mishmash of responses to experience. Whenever I travel I carry sketchbooks and make quick paintings in watercolours and take masses of photographs. My iPhone is full of photos of patches of walls, rusty padlocks hiding secret courtyards, smashed windows with ragged curtains yellowed and torn in places long abandoned. "But so much of my inspiration comes from just absorbing what is around me. When I return after a trip away to my shed studio in the garden where I make all my paintings I set up an easel and just keep painting abstractly building up marks and backgrounds until I feel inspired to start introducing imagery. "My paintings are intuitive, imaginary and impulsive. I paint without a plan in a kind of free form flow that allows experience soak up followed by transfer. My work unfolds in response to the way the paint layers build up on the canvas and imagery is superimposed as memories and imagination collide. The paintings at the Tobacco Factory are of imaginary homes with names like 'Casa Cadiz'and 'Casa Tavira' representing flamboyant,colourful, decorated buildings and impressions of the essence of place. Mary has branded her work as ‘artistintheshed’ after her 'she shed' where most of her paintings are made. To find out more and to sign up for newsletters see artistintheshed.com Follow artistintheshed on Instagram Contact Mary Price by email at [email protected] or call 07905 376207 More jpeg images can be provided on request Media contacts are welcome to film in the studio during the lead up to the exhibition by appointment The studio is very interesting with various bits of vintage emphemera as well as a messy artist studio ambiance. In some cases Mary is happy to discuss special offers for giclee prints for readers of magazines, newspapers and online media outlets by negotiation.