Cumbrian artists Tina Balmer and Rebecca Scott are the focus of the latest ‘Art in the Atrium’ gallery at Low Wood Bay Resort & Spa.
Running until the end of July 2024, the free exhibition called ‘Still Life – A Celebration’ has been organised in partnership with Gavagan Art.
Tina Balmer lives and works in Ulverston. She graduated from St Martin’s School of Art in London in 1983, where she studied Fashion Design. She has been exhibiting paintings since 1998 and has had solo exhibitions at Brantwood near Coniston and the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
Tina has organised various art trails and exhibitions in the north of England, including Printfest and Artfest North.
The subject matter for Tina’s paintings are everyday objects, representing the rituals of daily life such as vases, jugs, teapots and flowers. Tina calls her paintings ‘a celebration of the domestic and the ordinary’.
Rebecca Scott, whose work is in private and public collections nationally and internationally, currently lives and works between London and Cumbria, and is Co- Founder of Cross Lane Projects, an independent art space in Kendal.
Rebecca studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, and gained an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has exhibited in London, Cumbria, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, and Norway.
Rebecca’s artistic practice revolves around the transformation of conventional photographic imagery into painted works that challenge traditional ideas of interpretation and representation. It centres on the language of desire pervasive in consumer culture by extracting images from original contexts and overwriting their intended meanings.
Throughout the history of art there are many examples of artists who have incorporated objects from daily life, flowers, fruit, books, to convey through inanimate objects, information about the subject matter of the painting or the individual in a portrait. In the twentieth century for a number of artists including Picasso, and the Italian artist Morandi still life painting was a major aspect of their work.
Other artists whose work has been exhibited as part of the Art in the Atrium exhibition programme.
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