Opening Event September 5th 6pm - 7.30pm - FREE

What happens when you go for a walk with friends who are also neighbours who are also artists? Losing Track, Holding Traces is the culmination of a year-long project of exploratory and experimental work made by Jane Gower, Omi Pharncote and Jenny Purrett. All use natural materials and make work that connects them to their surroundings. 

 Jane’s multidisciplinary practice is based on personal connection to the natural world. Walking off-track, she finds natural materials, makes land art, and engages with the sensations she experiences, creating a personal mapping of place.  This mapping is evidenced in her explorations with the foraged materials using textile, ceramic and sculptural techniques. Her work references and celebrates the landscape of her walks.

 For Omi the process of felt-making is a natural extension of her woodland wandering. Both are repetitive, meditative activities. Whilst walking, she gathers the natural resources that become part of her felted forms. They are made to look like they came from the earth, or constructed by birds or animals. 

Jenny’s practice centres on drawing and she describes this as something she does to connect herself to the world around her, rooting her to a place and moment in time. She sees her drawings as collaborations, letting all of the elements involved (materials, weather, her surroundings, other people) work together, watching to see if, and where, the magic will happen.

Over the course of a year these 3 artists have explored and experienced the same places, yet noticed different things. They have opened each other’s eyes and challenged each other’s perceptions. Drawing and making together is a powerful thing. Through it, they have taken more creative risks and fed off each other’s ideas and energy. 

 This exhibition is a consequence of losing track: getting lost in the experience of walking and making. The work holds the traces of these individual and collective experiences.

Dry Water are a working creative space and opening hours vary week by week so please call for viewing times.