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Art in the Everyman // Luciana Hermida & Brigitte Watkinson

Mon 5 Sep to Mon 3 Oct

Luciana Hermida

My art embodies a strange fascination for the natural world. The oceans and seas are my main source of inspiration, specially the mysterious aspects of the creatures that live in them. I create dreamy scenes in order to offer a personal view about how our relationship with nature can enrich our imagination and our perception. 
I have mastered my unique style throughout the years since my graduation as a graphic designer in 2010. 

Emigrating has helped me to renew my connection with nature. I was born in Buenos Aires – I moved to the UK in 2013 and since then the ability to travel short distances to get to the coast or a forest meant I got to embrace a new way of enjoying nature. 

Through the use of bold colours, I aim to excite the senses, because for me nature is exciting, with places full of wonder. Colour is also a vital form of communication in the sea as well as on land, and I aim to maximise that in the production of my works.

My ambition is to produce a shift on our attitude to not only appreciate but to protect our planet. By bringing feelings of fascination and wonder, I believe we can get closer to nature and hopefully, a more spiritual connection with the world that surrounds us. Diving deep not only means to me a place of stillness, but of radical sensations of joy and wonder expressed in the most unusual -and colourful- ways. I invite you to be part of it.

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Brigitte Watkinson

Originally from Bavaria, Brigitte now lives and works near Northwich, Cheshire. She previously studied and taught languages before focussing on her art. With a Master’s Degree in Fine Art her work is multi-disciplinary spanning photography, painting, collage and sculpture. At the root of her practice is an ongoing fascination with the notion of entanglement or tentacularity – ‘life lived along lines... a series of interlaced trails’ (Donna Haraway, 2016) – the constant, cyclical process of emotions, encounters and experiences interlacing and interconnecting, and subsequently affecting and intra-acting with mood and memories.  

Forever concerned with ways of portraying the transient and multi-dimensional layers of these intangible encounters and emotions, she continuously investigates and explores new and improved ways, techniques and materials.  Material and process are central – her work is organic and labour intense. Materials are non-hierarchical and collecting them is intrinsic to her process. She re-uses materials and re-appropriates recycled and found materials, parts of old work and cut-outs to give them a new future and value.  Through careful layering, ready-made images are juxtapositioned with fragile materials such as paper, textiles and wax. As such, techniques and materials amalgamate and develop a complex and often surreal dynamic.

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