Home decoration and art combined

Art and property decoration can be sustainable and complementary.

That is the check out of 5 artists and an interior designer who will be exhibiting at the Previous Fire Station Gallery in Henley from following week.

Art for Interiors will showcase the operate of printmaker Kim Important-George, land and seascape painter Laura Dunmow, painter Antonia Glynne-Jones, blended-media artist Helen Savin-Thornhill, figurative sculptor Asya Dudko and inside designer Sarah Maidment.

Kim will work in the area of textured, hand-pulled printing, developing exclusive collagraphs. She has developed her personal way of printing utilizing layered plates, imaginative blind embossing and intricate approaches of mounting and ending her visuals.

She has labored with many inside designers and claims: “I can do a colourway to perform with a palette, so they would give me a swatch of the cushion handles, or the grey of a wallpaper, and I could tone it into the artwork.”

Her is effective are motivated by our conversation with the world. “Everything is to do with that vitality circulation and the trace of the energy that is left, like my new range, the Land Traces,” says Kim.

“It’s the whispers of the movement of the seasons, so you’ve obtained what’s on the surface, which is basic trees or foliage, then, it is much more what is going on below inside of the main of the vitality circulation of Earth.

“My imagery is swirls, in which the strength flows in great huge spirals. I did a large amount of blind embossing operate in the artwork.”

Sarah Maidment has more than 30 years’ knowledge as an interior designer, performing with marriage ceremony styling, furniture upcycling and bespoke headboards. The headboard styles are named right after spots that mean a whole lot to her, the Abbotsbury, the Chepstow, the Swinsty and the Henley.

Sarah, who lived in Wargrave as a baby, will be supplying two presentations at the gallery. The 1st, called Where by to start out?, following Saturday (March 19) is for these who want to tackle a place in their dwelling but experience confused.

Sarah states: “Sometimes they appear through magazines and there is just too considerably preference, they never know what they want. This is just to guide them through the preliminary suggestions.” For the second discuss, identified as Sustainable Residences, a 7 days afterwards, she will reveal upcycling. “It’s a curated property actually, to get people’s personalities in it,” claims Sarah. “You want their soul in their house and then they’ll be happy.”

So what will she be demonstrating? Sarah suggests: “One is heading to be a lamp base that you are going to chuck out due to the fact it does not go anyplace. You can paint it or do diverse consequences, or you can make unique lampshades from remnants of materials left more than from the area.”

Sarah will also be having a excursion down memory lane, displaying a Henley Royal Regatta programme from 1962. It price tag two shillings and has marks where her father charted the benefits.

She claims: “We utilized to get the educate from Wargrave into Henley and go and enjoy in the enjoy park by the river.”

She also remembers a toy shop close to Market Spot: “I got this small nurse with a baby from that store and I bought a hobbyhorse — just content memories.”

• Artwork for Interiors, the Old Fireplace Station Gallery, Higher Industry Place, Henley, from Thursday, March 17 to Tuesday, March 29, from 10.30am to 5pm Monday to Saturday, 11am to 4.30pm Sunday.