Steven Bramble will be joining Veronica Gosling, and the work of Gordon Hill, for an Open Studio week at 36 Denmark Rd, from Saturday July 6th – Sunday July 14th, which will hopefully include a children’s sculpture trail, a series of discussions and, of course music. Details to follow.

Gordon Hill

Our resident artist and Veronica’s partner, Gordon Hill, born in Bolton, sang in the Rossendale male voice choir, headmaster of Stafford Leys school in Leicester, charismatic international football referee, outreach educationalist in the United States, and latterly an artist with a huge love of colour, died here in Exeter on 21st March.

Always a free spirit, we will miss him very much as will his family in America. His latest work below. A lover of colour, he painted till the end.

We are planning at our Open Studio in July to show Gordon’s work, right up to his last pieces, and include open discussions on the effect and use of colour when Alzheimer’s causes other methods of communication to begin to falter.

Recent Work by Gordon Hill

We had a very successful Sunday at Studio 36 on 25th November!

We had a fun exhibition of children’s response to our fence project as the highlight of our OPEN STUDIO weekend; devised by Mary Bramble of our earlier sculpture trail event, with coloured marker pens tied to the fence, and removable pictures of faces from our garden sculptures. We’ve had about 40 passing young geniuses contribute names, likes, and habitats ranging from Seoul, Australia and Exeter as they have passed along Denmark Rd.

Black Moon Person and Bird

1.BLACK MOON
Every now and then I have a bonfire, and due to carelessness some bits of what I’m burning, scorch, but escape. One day when gathering these bits together I decided to use them. It has taken me a long time to find the way to do this, I’ve tried all sorts of backgrounds for the figure, collage, woodstain & finally decided on this acrylic painted background. For some reason the fence pulled it together. The actual figure is pasted on.

2.PERSON AND BIRD.
This one is all woodstain, pine, mahogany, walnut, ebony etc. except for the white which is acrylic. Several layers of finishing oil, and quite a bit of sanding when I made a mistake.