New Exhibition BODY at Centrespace Gallery Bristol

"Evolutio"520x620mm.

"Titivating" Giclee prints A2 size £40 framed £20 unframed twig and ink

"Twisting pierrot" 505mmx610mm.

 Both coloured pictures oil and watercolour Price £300 framed Original. Prints sizes various £18 A2

I am exhibiting with 6 other artists we are all exploring themes related to the human body. These are 3 of the eleven pictures I am exhibiting Preview night 25th February

For me retirement provided the perfect opportunity to explore my lifetime interest in painting and drawing. I decided that when I retired I was going to paint so I enrolled in life drawing classes several years beforehand and completed a Foundation Art Course at Queens Road Bristol after I retired. I found studio space in my second year at the Bristol Diving School and when that was sold I moved to Hamilton House in Stokes Croft.

Early in 2014 I became inspired by the Paul Klee Exhibition at Tate Modern and this saw my painting change  direction. I've always been experimental and this year I've found myself particularly interested by the oil transfer techniques and exploring them as well as cubist and colour techniques that Paul Klee used, in my  drawing and paintings.

I practised using cubes and produced some from red to green paintings. I used different transfer ways using a variety of sketches. Klee's transfer was a type of monoprint using black oil paint. Last year I started my journey and there were a number of changes from using one transfer in oil experimenting with backgrounds, through to animal sketches, printing sketches, to the most recent paintings   where I am using sketch transfers on top of each other and painting shapes in colours from red to green. This year the techniques have developed and I have 8 new works:- "The gods within me", "Twisting Pierrot", 2 in One reclining", "Flying","3in One", "Arising Up"," Evolution" and "Tumbling around". I have also done 4 quirky pets "Cat","Dog1","Doodle","Dog2".All semi abstract.  

About 20 years ago I was introduced to the technique of using twig ink and wash in the life drawing setting. Using a twig seemed to free my  work as the line can be thick or thin at random. I have also been searching along the lines less is more and the simple quick sketches, "Stretching" and "Titillating" are in twig and ink giving them an emotional and moving quality. The third is an ink only sketch "Stretching". I started using grey scale painting at College and I wanted to explore painting portraits and this led to the 2 paint sketches "Black on White" and "White on Black". All the pictures are  on sale as limited giclee prints.                                                                           June Hoy September 2015 
contact details:j.hoy@blueyonder.co.uk.Facebook June Hoy.01179232702.