LandEscapes - New Charcoal Drawings 
Mossie Quille
6th-18th December, 11am-6pm
Centrespace Gallery, 6 Leonard Lane, Bristol BS1 1EA

Not long to go now until my first solo exhibition, LandEscapes, opens at Centrespace Gallery, but what can visitors expect to see and what is it all about?

around this time last year that I embarked on a series of charcoal drawings in and around Blean Wood, near Canterbury, Kent. This sparked what has become a deep fixation and fascination of recording certain aspects of the landscape, inspiring works such as 'Branches' seen below. There will be around twenty works on show in the exhibition, drawn from spells working in Kent, Hampshire, and North Somerset. Recently I returned to Blean Wood in Canterbury to work on a final piece for the show, thus creating a neat symmetry to the journey I embarked on last November. 

Always working outside directly from life, the works have been executed exclusively in charcoal. Among other things, these drawings are attempts to articulate and depict, through the act of recording our environment, thoughts and feelings that we relate to as ‘self awareness’. Looking, sketching, and familiarising, I will return to one spot often on several occasions prior to committing to a series of drawings. The subject matter being not simply a portrayal of our rural surroundings, but rather, the location has been chosen for its value to me in inherently evoking and informing moments of self reflection. 

I am excited at the prospect of seeing the works all in one place for the first time, and hope that visitors to the gallery will also find it a rewarding experience. 

Branches, Longwood Estate, Hampshire, 20-3-13  76cm x 56cm, From A Hampshire Series.

There will be a late opening until 8pm on Thursday 12th December. All work is for sale!