More than just a Jewellery Shop…
KATA Jewellery plays host to three exhibitions a year in our Royal Tunbridge Wells Boutique, each showcasing two unique artists from the South East.
Each artist is handpicked, pairing together two which are complementary to each other and yet stand strongly on their own creating a unique interplay between the two.
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‘Abstract Connections’
Our third art exhibition for 2024 brings together abstract Artist Caroline Martin and abstract Photographer Lena Bruce.
Both artists evoke intrigue and call for participation through their use of ambiguous abstract shapes. Whilst Lena brings us closer to her subject matter leading viewers to question and interpret, Caroline’s fluid brush strokes connect us to her expression of self.
Caroline Martin
Abstract Artist Caroline Martin draws influence from the natural forms that have surrounded her over the course of her life. From her childhood growing up in Botswana, the natural textures which emerge at the coast and fluid movement of water itself is a consistent theme in Caroline’s work.
Describing her approach as ‘intuitive’ painting for Caroline is an immersive sensory experience. She focuses intensely for lengthy periods of time whilst listening to music; letting the song carry her to a creative zone as she translates her experience of natural forms onto the blank canvas.
This sensory element comes across in the fluid movement of her broad brush strokes and her abrupt staccato watercolour ink splatters from which a sense of rhythm is derived. Extending this sensory immersion to the eyes of the viewer, Caroline’s use of bright white strokes layered behind bold black ones alongside the refined application of neon paint and copper leaf evoke visual intrigue. Texture is achieved through layering different consistencies of acrylic paint and watercolor based ink. Adding yet another layer of moving texture when it comes to her framed work, she chooses to use reflective glass.
Now calling East Sussex her home Caroline Martin regularly exhibits at art exhibitions across South East England and has built relationships with clients and collectors from Singapore to the Isle of White.
Lena Bruce
The photographic art created by Lena Bruce is textural and detailed, immediately eye-catching and captivating. Lena’s work focuses on the intensely beautiful details found within nature. Her images bring us incredibly close to her subjects, reveling in the textures and forms that are only captured when one draws in close, looking beyond the big picture to the beauty within. The result is compelling images that offer intrigue and illusion.
From the very action of capturing her images through to post-production editing, printing and framing. Lena has full control of her creative process from beginning to end, working from her garden studio to create high quality limited edition photographic prints.