Chrys Allen – Hurstone Open Studios

Discipline  Drawing, Mixed Media, Printmaking 

Works on paper including drawings, scrolls, maps and prints. These musings and meanderings imply that both walking and drawing allow the imagination to wander.

“With no preferred vantage point, no favourite view or season, these walks drawings allow the eyes and the imagination to drift;  the drawings move through seemingly relatable landscapes and sensations: A zooming in and panning out accommodates a sense of movement, the notion of time passing when walking.

The drawings mark the shifts and changes in the landscape and include observing the twists and turns of routes (and roots) of ancients paths; seamlessly weaving imagery together to make a continuous whole, as if a film spliced and edited. There are scrolls, ‘Walks in Progress,’ ‘Lost’ Maps, ‘Mappa Mundi’, ‘Wanderings’, ‘Musings’ and ‘Meanderings’ and most recently a series of  ‘Circular Walks’  My mapping of the landscape close to Hurstone.

In addition to artworks by Chrys Allen a collection of works titled  “Consequences” will be on show:  Based on the DaDa ‘Exquisite Corpse’ and the parlour game ‘Heads, Bodies and Feet’. The exhibition celebrates the delight in the unexpected and intuitive… and sharing the consequences. 15 invited artists involved were given guidance instructions to create heads, hands, feet (or abstract shapes) in any medium to fit in supplied standardised boxes;  these ‘heads bodies and feet’ are shown mismatched with those made by others, as in the parlour game.  

Artists exhibiting in ‘Consequences’ : Sophie Molins, David Smith, Jazz Moore, Phil Moore, Lucy Cooper, Michael Cooper, Jacy Wall, Jenny Graham, Bronwen Bradshaw, Penny Elfick, Jo Fairfax, Michael Fairfax, Louise Baker, Chrys Allen, Bunny Starkey.

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Venue address: Hurstone Studios, Hurstone Farm, Waterrow, Taunton TA42AT
Directions: From B3227 head toward Bampton. On entering Waterrow take the narrow lane by the bridge (opposite side of the river to the Rock Inn) where there will be a sign towards Hurstone. If using your GPS/Satnav Postcode TA42AT will take you to Hurstone’s gate. 
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Parking on site
Toilets Available
Refreshments: Tea and coffee available
Dogs Allowed: Please note that dogs should be kept on leads

Accessibility further information: Please note that being a farmyard there are some uneven surfaces. We have, where possible, provided assisted access for those with mobility concerns; by providing a route via a path on an incline and just one step into studios.

Other artists in the venue: John Foster, Lucy Cooper
Other artists in the parish: Jane Mowat, Lily Mo Browne