This exhibition came about as two artists separately and together pursued their delight in the quirkiness of the particulars of donkeys, ducks and goats: their physical presence, eccentricity, humour and forthrightness.
The exhibition title, Dappled Things, along with the phrase all things counter, original, spare, strange, are borrowed from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem Pied Beauty. The poem, like this exhibition, celebrates the visual beauty of patterned things in nature – things made up of two or more colours and contrasting tones.
‘The way she goes about creating which is also reflected in her artwork, is lively, often fun-filled, displays a spirit of enquiry and experimentation with media, and is at once both unpretentious and deeply reflective. “’– PAM VAUGHAN, artist and NAS lecturer