Visual Arts

This large group exhibition promises to be an artistic smorgasbord with a large range of styles and medium on show including textiles, installations, paintings, photography, functional and sculptural ceramics and glass.

Textile artist Gilly Burrell will be showing large colourful wall hangings and knitted vessels.

Lisa Temple-Cox specialises in assemblage – an actual ‘cabinet of curiosities’ will be on show each curiosity made of ephemera and relics holds a history of memories.

Artist Elaine Tribley displays work

Edmund Goubert mixes painting and collage to explore notions of the sublime in personal memory. Texts from an unpublished novel written by his mother are incorporated into works of a painterly style.

Harvey Taylor’s abstract paintings are created from flowing shapes and intuitive forms that are suggestive of organic growth and movement; inspiration has recently come from oyster shells collected from the Mersea shore.

In Jane Frederick’s painting and prints elusive characters exist in an indefinable space where colour and light transcend reality.

Martin Bridges and Rory Craigie both create hand made functional ceramics that are perfect for the home and Rory will also show more sculptural works drawing inspiration from architecture and the processes of decay.

A number of artists have also taken the opportunity to create works in response to the unusual and inspiring coastal location of the Naze Tower.

Elaine Tribley uses photography and vinyl to explore and uncover the essence of a place, the outside environment of the Naze will subtly creep into the Tower with vinyl installations of growth across the brickwork.

Pottery on display

In addition Elaine has created a series of canvases where images of a bench, fence and defence at the Naze create a line that goes from the Tower to the sea and highlights the fragility of the Naze environment and the destruction of the area you witness due to the undeterred coastal erosion.

Pam Schomberg’s highly individual style could be inspired by the prehistory of the Naze and at the Tower she presents hand built ceramics made using clay collected and reclaimed from the Naze beach.

Simon Carter’s paintings are of things washed out of the cliffs below the Naze Tower. Spread out on the sands below the cliffs they appeared like models of archaeological remains, like aerial views of past civilization; which in fact is what they are.