Medulla is pleased to invite you to STARE THE LINE: Student workshop with Edward Bowen. Featuring Justin ‘JJ’ de Verteuil, Taya Serrao and Jonathan Solis
OPENING RECEPTION: Monday 8th September 2014
7:00 p.m. to 9:30p.m.
#37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain
RSVP: 740 7597 /
EXHIBITION CLOSES: Saturday 13th September 2014
ABOUT THE SHOW: Edward Bowen’s statement
“Once again, looking over shoulders, examining gestures, squinting at imaginary lines and the spaces in between things, chatting, with full on attention in discussions about the weights, balances, intentions and forces, and much else over the last year, teaching drawing again in the Studio. These results exhibited comprise a selection from thousands of gestures and moments, associated with many hours of intense concentration and questioning, often doubt, the process as much about courage as well as skill. Individual hands, individual minds under controlled stresses, often the intention in a studio exercise was to fail spectacularly, to break down and demolish comfort zones and previously held easier expectations; deconstructing, re-looking and re-seeing to build a new image, a tougher and more informed drawing.
The more you draw, the more you double print the experience, in the mind and on a surface; it is a self-learning process and an unforgiving learning curve. My students came to acquire the mental tools and guidelines for the development of that personal process, and skill, of thinking visually.”
Edward Bowen
Student Drawing Workshop, The Studio Annexe, 25 Sydenham Avenue, St Ann’s / 2013-2014
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Justin ‘JJ’ de Verteuil
After spending the year of March 2013 to March 2014 studying under the mentorship of artist Eddie Bowen, Justin de Verteuil has been steadily building his portfolio of work and will be enrolling at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in September 2014.
“My year of study with Eddie began with an intensive lesson in drawing. The aspect of drawing that impacted me and my work most was learning to observe my surroundings. While practising, I became acutely aware of the world around me, and I began to realise that within the seemingly everyday there resided another layer of narrative to be explored, one that could reflect ideas, experiences and aspirations.”
Taya Serrao
“I’m just out of school and will head off to Cooper Union in New York to pursue a degree in Fine Art. During my gap year I did drawing classes with Eddie Bowen which changed my entire drawing process. I learnt to focus on process rather than product, letting go of all the pre-planning and expectation that control the outcome of a piece before it has even begun. In Eddie’s class I was taught to let go of all that and funnily enough, I felt more in control of my work as a result. The drawings I was left with were both representative and interpretive; they also felt more honest than any drawings I had done previously. I’m interested in science and music. For now, my drawings have been mainly observational realism, and things that have stemmed from these. I’ve been happily exploring that, simply finding ways to represent the things around me and experimenting with different degrees of abstraction.”
Jonathan Solis
“I have loved drawing since I was young and actively pursued it for years out of pure enjoyment, so when I decided to take it a step further, doing classes with Eddie was exactly what I needed. Before, I never understood the focus required to create solid drawings; there is a lot that goes into it and this journey over the past seven months has enhanced my ability by helping me to really understand form and composition, and showing me how to “take the line for a walk” and use my imagination. I still have so much more to grow, but Eddie’s teaching has given me a valuable start and these pieces are a landmark of the progress I’ve made so far.”
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