CATHERINE HOPE-JONES celebrates the dramatic landscape site, estate and inspirational “garden of rooms” which is “Kiftsgate” that lies on the edge of the North Cotswold’s escarpment close to her home. In this exhibition Catherine also celebrates remnants of the great “lost” 18th century landscape garden of William Beckford in the “arcadian” tradition at “Fonthill” in Wiltshire which she discovered whilst walking. “I regard my preliminary drawings and collages as “found” objects which I use as stepping stones into a more fanciful imaginative experience. The developed images reflect my emotional responses to a site over time that become distilled and concentrated in studio and visually shift between realism and abstraction. For this show a degree of theatricality may have entered my work".
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