Artists in Residence: Joan Manning & Sarah Bovey, Painting,
July 16th to 23rd

   Joan Manning

Joan has been a graphic designer for many years and trained initially at the college of printing, Watford. Last year she visited Nant y Coy with examples of paper sculpture and is currently exploring ‘mixed media’ painting. This attempt to break away from the rigid discipline of graphic design allows Joan more personal expression. She will be using the residency at Nant y Coy to demonstrate this and to share the experience with friend and fellow artist Sarah Bovey. Joan hopes to keep a sketchbook/diary of her residency week in this beautiful part of Wales.

Later this year Joan is starting a new career in teaching general Art to adults. She has a strong belief in lifelong learning and personal growth through art and craft and wants to encourage this growth in others.

Joan believes that "...as children we all express creativity without judgement or the inner critic that, as adults, sometimes prevents our pursuit of personal expression through the visual arts". She has also discovered a healing and spiritual element by playing with paint and colour in an exploratory way because it "...allows us to bring to consciousness things from the sub-conscious which have relevance to our lives."

Joan can be contacted by email on: jvmanning@macace.net

Living in the Blackdown Hills, East Devon, Sarah Bovey has worked for many years as a horticulturist and garden designer; her interest in drawing and painting grew as a way of "letting go" the constraints of drawing to-scale plans and designs. A regular student on Margaret Merritt's courses, Sarah has learned to be adventurous with colour and mixed media. Her paintings reflect her deep affection and knowledge of the landscape around her, and in particular trees and woodlands.

Sarah can be contacted by email on: indigo2701@googlemail.com

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Sculpture/Painting
March 19th - March 25th

Jenny Mynett
Print Making,
Etching/Woodcuts
March 27th to April 1st

Bee Grant Peterkin and Friends
Painting
April 10th to April 22nd

Cynth Weyman
Painting/Textile
April 24th to April 29th

Thelma Bluck, Nancy Williams and Sylvia Dixon
Painting
May 1st to May 6th

Peter Monaghan
Painting
May 8th to May 13th

Eileen Richards
And Friends
Painting
May 15th to May 20th

Andrea Badkin
Painting/Textiles
May 22nd to May 27th

Mary Hainline and Julia Kelland
Painting
May 29th to June 3rd

Nick Benjamin
Painting with Fingers!
June 5th to June 10th

Sandra Philips
Painting
June 12th to June 17th

Jan Morgan
Wood Painting
June 19th to 24th June

Carole King and Glen Ibbitson
Painting/Printmaking
June 26th to July 1st

Roger Hill
Painting
July 3rd to July 8th

Jane Alison Williams
Painting
July 10th to July 15th