ELSIE WIGMORE: Studies from Life
An exhibition from July 13th to September 4th 2004
Tuesday to Saturday 10 - 1pm & 2 - 5pm
Free Admission
Elsie Wigmore
This is Elsie’s First Solo Exhibition. Featuring studies and finished pastel drawings from the nude. Elsies work is based on strong observational skills.
I feel that my pictures of nudes belong in Crescent Arts Gallery because they were conceived there. The models, Magali, Charlotte and others are captured on paper and, hopefully, I have given them life.
“They are like babies to me and were, like babies, a pleasure to conceive but difficult to deliver”. It is a fight - a struggle - to create a 3D human image on a 2D surface but I think that my initial enjoyment of this challenge shows in the drawings.
Then the creative stage from drawing to picture is the “difficult delivery - although in some cases the drawings stand on their own merit and that is exciting. However, I am constantly looking and refining and searching for inspiration in them. Then I will possibly complete a series around a theme - for example using light source and changes on the body or background.
Elsie Wigmore
I am working on a series of three, giving the drawings a background of empty beach, sea and sky.
I have a long career teaching ceramics in Sheffield school and the Adolescent Unit of a psychiatric Hospital in Middlesborough. When I retired I took up painting in water colours and concentrated on cliff scenes and flower pictures in this medium and I have taken part in the local Whitby Art Society, North York's and R N L I Exhibitions for the past ten years.
Though out this time I have been dedicated to these subjects but I discovered the pleasure of Life Drawing using pastel a few years ago and always look forward to the sessions at Crescent Arts Gallery with enormous pleasure.
Elsie Wigmore's work
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