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Caroline Ali
Large Coalbrookdale Dragonfly
53 cm x 53 cm Pencil • Value at purchase £200

Caroline Ali is recognised for the illustrative style of her finely detailed pencil drawings and watercolours. Since graduating with a degree in Fine Art, she has exhibited widely including at the Five Dials Gallery in Covent Garden, London’s Mall Galleries, Newcastle –upon-Tyne, Bath, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Telford. Her work is also included in the permanent collections of the Allied Irish Bank and Northumberland County Libraries.

This piece formed part of Caroline Ali’s exhibition, Drawings and Watercolours, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2005
AFH01

Jon Cruttenden
Number 9
57 cm x 47 cm Photograph • Value at purchase £55

“To me a good landscape photograph is one that makes you want to climb in and walk through it. I strive for simple, uncluttered compositions. The sky is also important for me. It can make the difference between an average and a great picture. A great cloudscape can help make a great picture. Most of my digital pictures start out in colour, some are taken with the specific intention of converting to mono in Photoshop. Many of my favourite photographs have been de-saturated, dodged and burned to bring out detail and contrast, otherwise lost. I try to avoid over-manipulating images. If you can tell it's been fiddled with, then you've gone too far.”

This piece formed part of Jon Cruttenden’s exhibition, Photography, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2006.
www.joncruttendenphotography.com
AFH02

Julian Evans
Corvedale Sky
62 cm x 87 cm Photograph • Value at purchase £50

Julian attended Shrewsbury School of Art from 1973-1975 and gained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design in Coventry in 1978. Julian has lived in Shropshire for most of his life and loves the varied landscapes that it has to offer.
“...rather than just take a picture of something, I try to provide a different view of what is in front of me. People tend to be marginalised, nature takes over and then composition becomes the most important factor”.

This piece formed part of the Images from the Landscape exhibition, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2005.

AFH03

Luby Evans
Callow Song
32 cm x 41 cm Oil on canvas • Value at purchase unknown

“The moon orchids are secrets of the night, flowers of the imagination and symbols of a spiritual and physical relationship with a remarkable place. These paintings are inspired by nature, the landscapes and people of Wenlock. They are produced by an organic creativity for the world as we live it. Each painting evolves from a blank space, thoughts, a mass of ideas and experiences, tools, equipment, paint, ink – stuff which comes together in the process of creativity. Making marks on that blank space involves a conversation.”

This piece formed part of Luby Evans’ exhibition, Paintings for the Moon Orchids, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2004.
AFH04

Artist unknown
The Beginnings of Superstition
87 x 105 cms Print • Value at purchase £95

Fairtrade Art was a locally-based organisation which actively promoted and sold work on behalf of artists in Africa. The majority of the income from sales went directly to the artist and to developing projects in the artists’ communities. The artists represented are those with an established reputation in their own countries and who are now exhibiting internationally.

This piece formed part of the Fairtrade Art exhibition, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2007.
AFH05

Beverly Fry
Autumn Leaves
Watercolour and crayon 53 cm x 31 cm • Value at purchase £130.00

“Airy light and spaciousness surrounds the hill top location of my new studio gallery at Marsh Barn. This has influenced my work in this exhibition at The Edge Arts Centre. Alongside that, I have been profoundly moved by witnessing, close hand, farming life. For inspiration, I am indebted to the farmers’ kindness to me in including me in the working life of the farm and for allowing me to work close to the animals.”

This piece formed part Beverley Fry’s exhibition, Reclaim the Light, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2004.
www.beverleyfry.co.uk
AFH06

Caroline Glanville
Vegetable Garden
Pen/Watercolour 66 cm x 56 cm • Value at purchase £150.00

Caroline trained at Somerset College of Art and later gained an MA at Leicester Polytechnic. She has since worked as a freelance illustrator and designer for advertising, publishing and greetings cards companies. Figurative and natural history subjects are a strong interest, and all of the images in this exhibition have been worked in situ from life.
“I enjoy landscapes which have a human touch – often abandoned tractors or old buildings feature in the work.”

This piece formed part of Caroline Glanville’s exhibition, Paintings from Life, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2005.
AFH07

Marilyn Johns
Gubbio Summer 1
Oil on canvas 82 x 102 cm • Value at purchase £150

Locally-based artist Marilyn Johns has lived and worked throughout the UK working as, variously, a teacher and a theatrical costume designer. Her work includes landscapes and still life pieces inspired by her connections with Italy, her more personal, autobiographical pieces, and works inspired by literature. She has been awarded commissions for public sculptures and portraits, including work for Telford town centre’s civic buildings.

This piece formed part of Marilyn Johns’ exhibition A Life in Painting which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2004.
AFH08

Angela Jones
Dancers II
Mixed media 57 cm x 46 cm • Value at purchase £95

“I was born in mid-Wales and moved to Shropshire where I have now lived for any years. Painting and drawing have always played a big part in my life and I am always exploring new and innovative ways of developing my work, be it in the medium of watercolours, acrylics or mixed media. I have exhibited in various single and group exhibitions in Shropshire, North Wales and Oxfordshire.”

This piece formed part of the Broseley Artists Group exhibition, Painting Women, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2004.
AFH09

Pip Jones
Andalucia
98 cm x 79 cm • Value at purchase unknown

Pip Jones was a part-time teacher at William Brookes School for fourteen years combining this with developing her career as an artist. Shropshire landscapes have been a major theme in her work, with Spanish landscapes creating an interesting contrast. She lives in Broseley.

This piece formed part of Pip Jones’s exhibition, Mother and Daughter, which she shared with her daughter, illustrator Amie Jones. The exhibition was the first to take place at The Edge Arts Centre, in 2003.
AFH10

Sandra Masterson
Simplify Me
Ink, Charcoal and chalk 41 cm x 55 • Value at purchase £100

“The dictionary defines the word substance to mean matter; reality; solidity;
chief part; essence; gist; material; real not illusory. These works on paper
try to define the natural environment in these terms through the direct use
of collected organic soils and plant matter.” Sandra Masterson
Sandra Masterson’s unique approach to landscape offers an immediate and intimate opportunity to interact with elements of the natural world.

This piece formed part of Sandra Masterson’s exhibition, Substance, which took take place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2007.
www.sandramasterson.co.uk
AFH11

Samantha Moore
Success with Sweet Peas
87 cm x 62 cm print • Value at purchase £50

This is one of a series of frames from a digitally animated short film.
“Success with Sweet Peas is a digitally animated documentary describing the motivation of competitive sweet pea growers as they prepare to exhibit their flowers in the annual Eckford Sweet Pea Society of Wem show in Shropshire, summer 2000. The film was made entirely digitally using a computer and a graphics tablet so that I could ‘draw’ directly onto the screen. The programmes used were Painter 7, After Effects 5.5 and Premiere 6.”

This piece formed part of Samantha Moore’s exhibition, Success with Sweet Peas, which took place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2004. The film from which this frame was taken was shown at The Edge as part of the Borderlines Film Festival in March 2004.
www.samanthamoore.co.uk
AFH12

Hugh Sanders
Underground Garages
Archival inkjet print on foamex 84 cm x 52 cm • Value at purchase £150

“Cinema and photographic reproduction have the ability to simulate a convincing version of any particular reality. With increased speed and the intensification of technological image reproduction, it is possible to have an appearance without any corresponding actuality. It has been argued by French theorist Jean Baudrillard, that our experience of reality is mediated by images: that we have difficulty actually distinguishing what is fixed and real and what is fleeting and simulated. My work takes as its inspiration this state of uncertainty; these works seem to quote cinema and television. I use plastic, card and wood to create models, which are then lit using torches and lamps, photographed and then digitally scanned and printed.”

This piece formed part of Hugh Sanders’ exhibition, Uncertainty, which took take place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2006.
www.hughmsanders.com
AFH13

Betsy Smith
Overland
Watercolour 84 cm x 104 cm • Value at purchase £400

“I have been painting professionally now for eleven of the seventeen years I have spent in Shropshire. Captivated by the landscape, both locally and on the borders with Wales, I return to it as an ever-changing and challenging subject. Watercolour is my preferred medium, its fluidity and freshness relate closely to my response to what I see. My latest work, however, is seeking to surround the onlooker with the experience of landscape rather than an observed realised view, allowing for a more personal response, to stir the memory of walks, glimpses of landscape from a car journey, as the seasons pass.”

This piece formed part of Betsy Smith’s exhibition, New Work, New Directions, which took take place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2005.
www.twenty-twenty.co.uk/artist/Betsy-Smith.html
AFH14

David Walton
Life Drawing
Blue/Brown Soft pastel 57 cm x 76 cm • Value at purchase £150

“Two strands of my work are on show here. Surface is represented by abstract paintings loosely based on images found at paleolithic sites, and are explorations of surface and texture. Form is represented by a series of life drawings made at my drawing group.”

This piece formed part of David Walton’s exhibition, Surface and Form, which took take place at The Edge Arts Centre in 2008.
AFH15