Angela Lawrence

Address: The Clience
Tongland Road
Kirkcudbright
Scotland DG6 4UR

Telephone: 07793 729192 or 01557 331498
Email: ang_pat_lawrence@hotmail.com
Web: www.cliencestudio.co.uk

Statement of Practice

I paint in oil and watercolour and my work can be seen to divide roughly into three kinds: work which is a personal, but representational response to actual landscapes around me; imaginary, panoramic glimpses of landscape verging on the abstract; and paintings of a much more abstract nature which reflect my response to that of which landscape is composed – rock, water, organic matter, and colour. I am especially fascinated with a sense that contained within a stone are all the elements of what we see around us and beyond, an insight into the larger picture, and an evidence of our deep connectedness to the world. My recent series “Within the Stone” and “Beyond the Stone” reflect these ideas.

  I have lived almost half of my life in Finland as an artist and musician, and have enjoyed opportunities to combine both in workshop projects involving groups as diverse as from schools to professional theatre and orchestras. In many of my paintings there is a wish to express an interaction between my perceptions of the different surroundings I have found myself in with the feelings I have experienced whilst there. Since recently having come to live in Galloway, my paintings have taken on a fresh aspect.

Education
I hold a B.A. honours degree in Music and English, and postgraduate diplomas in both music and education, and have studied art as an external student at the Camberwell School of Art, London and in Finland.

Awards and selected commissions

2000 Finnish Arts Council Award

2000 Joensuu Symphony Orchestra – watercolour landscape

2001 Joensuu City Council – series of watercolour landscapes

2002 Joensuu College of Music – watercolours

Exhibitions

Recent selected group exhibitions:

Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Gracefield Arts Centre “Spring Fling Artists”
Stranraer Museum “Spring Fling Artists”
“Spring Fling Open Studios Event 2004”, Dumfries and Galloway
“Galloway’s Best In Wigtown” International Festival of Booktowns event
Joensuu City Art Museum, Finland
North Karelian Hospital Gallery, Finland
Joensuu Free College, Finland
Joensuu Artists, Muikku Hall, Finland
Ahjo Art Centre, Finland

Solo Exhibitions

Gallery Petra Raasio, Finland
Carelicum Museum, Finland
Joen Suun space, Finland
Galleria Rustico, Finland

Forthcoming Solo Exhibitions

Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, April 2005
“Spring Fling 2005”, open studio event, Dumfries and Galloway, 28 -30 May
Clience Studio Opening Exhibition, Kirkcudbright, 27 May - 24 June
Kirroughtree Forest Visitors Centre, Newton Stewart, August 8 - 21, 2005
Tolbooth Arts Centre, Kirkcudbright, August 4 – 21, 2005
Castle Douglas Art Gallery, November 26 – December 4, 2005