Emily has known Geoff since her early 20s when she was a student and he was a tutor on the Foundation Art course at Northbrook College. Since then their paths have crossed often and they have enjoyed keeping up to date with each others’ work. Emily was delighted to welcome Geoff to the opening of Walk with Me back in December, and after seeing the show, Geoff was kind enough to write a view that featured on his website. Here are a couple of excerpts:
“Emily Ball’s work in this show might simply be categorised as abstract landscape, but that would not be specific enough to account for a clear individuality of purpose in a lifelong project that engages with a searching, animated and exuberant understanding of the world as experienced. A being in the world, fully connected but including mystery. The works are full of implied movement, visually and physically expressed, by an observer fully engrossed in the act of drawing and painting.” ~ Geoff Hands
“The paint is applied skilfully with dexterity, self-confidence and years of practice – but healthily retains an aspect, or an edge, of testing out applications and combinations of sometimes raw but playful brush marks. There is a sense of a positive and intentional work in progress, or a springboard for future works yet to be realised. This animated feeling confirms that environments are never really still or are only observed with a rational eye. Nature’s spaces are in and around us, containing histories and yet moving on.” ~ Geoff Hands
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