Fran Farrar’s collection ‘Paused Continuum’ starts off the 2023 programme of exhibitions at Ryde’s ARCH Window Gallery.
Fran Farrar is an Isle of Wight-based artist printmaker whose work revolves around concepts of time, memory and ancestry. Her practice is a combination of etchings, monotype printmaking and painting through which she captures fleeting moments in time.
Farrar: Interest in an historic continuum
Fran explained,
“I’m so pleased to be able to share these new works at ARCH. Having people walk past, stop and take a moment reflects the work it’s self – each piece being a tiny snapshot of a memory.
“I am interested in an historic continuum that links me back through time to past artists and makers. In particular, I am drawn to the perception of light and its representation as a thread through time. The exhibition shows a paused moment in that thread.
“In my work I return repeatedly to a vocabulary of mark making, adjusting and refining, to explore shape, line and texture. My work is very personal, diarising emotional responses to landscapes, built and natural, and the associated intimate memories that they hold.”
The artist
Fran Farrar is an artist and printmaker who exhibits and sells nationally, she lives and works on the Island. This collection of work explores Fran’s emotive response to several locations across the UK including Dodman Point in Devon, Wymondham Abbey in Norfolk and Clapham in London.
The exhibition is on at ARCH Window Gallery, Ryde High Street (1st to 28th February 2023), accessible daily for free.
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