Art

At Seven, we are keen to promote local artists by exhibiting their work in Seven’s café/bar. We rotate exhibitions on a monthly basis.

Exhibitions

Current Exhibition – Alison Smith

I went to art school as a mature student and realised my joy came from encouraging different client groups to use creativity as a tool to heal. I’ve always been amazed at how people who could be reluctant to begin with, embrace the opportunity to express themselves with great vigour. I ran art workshops in hospitals, for stroke survivors, bereaved carers and for carers of people with dementia.

After retiring, I focussed mainly on producing landscapes, but I have always had a passion for portraiture. I enjoy emulating the methods used by the old masters, especially the chiaroscuro effects Caravaggio achieved.

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Illustrated : Diamonds In The Grass

Sarah Rogers Whitton

“The Seven Daughters of Eve”

Exhibition by Sarah Rogers Whitton

This series of silk screen prints arose from a book I read, called, obviously enough, “The Seven Daughters of Eve” by Brian Sykes.  The thesis of the book is that all people, men and women alike, are descended from seven women.  This has been traced through seven sets of mitochondrial DNA to the eponymous seven women. 

I love this idea because it makes a nonsense of racial division.  These women lived in different centuries and in different geographical locations and we know nothing about them other than their Mitochondrial signatures.  This led me to reflect on their mysterious qualities and to create a series of types of women, who have invisibly bequeathed us their culture and their strivings. 

The women I chose are loosely based on real women, but act as types, rather than real women.

Seren Oakley

Seren Oakley is Welsh fine artist, currently working across England and Wales. They graduated with a BA Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2020. Seren’s work is based in a multi-disciplinary practice mainly comprising video, sound, paintings, and movement practice. Lately it has involved the evolution of an electro art core duo called ‘BOPIT’, that perform venues in Leeds.

A focus of their work is curation, how all can be brought together to create a curated space that envelopes people in a captivated feeling.  

Additionally to painting portraits, an element of their practice involves exploring different sound scapes and aesthetics in painting, want to develop specific moods with installation and visual work, which is also being explored in 3D digital space.