4 Women in Aquelarre 2023

For their third exhibition 4 Women in Aquelarre are once again reflecting on the fragility of existence through the lens of their feminine wisdom and experience.

At Winns Gallery Lloyd Park E17 5JW 
Open until the 24th of September.

Longing for a Different Reality Exhibition

Longing for a Different Reality is an exhibition at the 111 Art Gallery in Highbury and Islington in collaboration with Andrew Lim, a self taught furniture maker from Blackhorse Workshop.
​From the 4th to 10th of September
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'My recent sculptures, a series of layered and folded clay-like beings are a testimony of my practice and artistic journey. They are wrapped within themselves, creating structures that provide support, much like us—built with layers of tissue and water, layers of success, failures, happiness, and pain, which support and give structure to our consciousness and entire being. To make sense of the world we are in and how we can relate with it we should look inside ourself, a journey that most of us dislike, but one that we must do in order to know how to relate and belong’. 

Women artists reunite after four years for free exhibition
By Nadoya Reid

Walhamstow Echo Publication

Four women artists from Walthamstow have reunited for a free exhibition of work that “expresses their reality and experiences”. 
Through their work, the artists invite viewers to “contemplate an imagined world, to acknowledge the depth of feminine wisdom, and to reflect on the fragility and preciousness of nature”. 

Yaniré’s sculptures, meanwhile, are a monument to the trying times of the pandemic, with their bodies acting as “testimony to the sadness produced by fear, death and lack of human contact”. 
She told the Echo: “During the pandemic, people were not able to touch or embrace. This is why my sculptures have no arms or mouths and stand grounded on their duckling-like feet”.
However, she said the colourfulness of her pieces reflects “resilience” and her belief in “the human capacity to endure, adapt and survive”, adding: “They reflect both the darkness and light of life, the spirit which links us all with nature helping us to survive”.

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Armless and Speechless

My sculptures are contained forms and have over the time growing bigger feet to keep them grounded. The armless and mouthless sculptures represent a winning award of resilience. The sculptures have a duality. They reflect both the darkness and light of life, the spirit which links us all with nature helping us to survive.
​I created these sculptures from 2019 to 2022, years of uncertainty, fear and isolation. One morning in April 2020 I started drawing in my studio a series of armless and mouthless sculptures, a representation of what the world was experiencing or how I did perceived the world those days.
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They are part of the '4 Women in Aquelarre' Exhibition, our second edition and I will be sharing the space with the artists: Anna Alcock, Linda Green and Kirsten Schmidt.

Location: Winns Gallery, Lloyd Park E17 5JW
From: 14th - 21st of August 2022
Opening times: Weekdays 12 - 5 pm 
Weekends 10 am - 5 pm

Ceramic watercolour dish

​I love travelling, it makes me feel relaxed and grounded, in tune with my surroundings. I become appreciative and open and is on these conditions when the ideas flow.

This year I have designed a watercolour dish to share with you. My watercolour ceramic dish is small and resistant enough to travel with you on holiday. To keep it safe the dish comes with a wonderful quilted pouch out of warm and soothing Batik fabrics from our lovely Walthamstow High St. shops.

I was working on Black Ants over a red background from The Amazonia. It was the perfect opportunity to try the watercolour dish even with a wide flat brush and it works very well!

​If you are an artist and appreciate well made beautiful and practical objects this will be something you will take for sure on your holidays.

Feature at The Craft Council Diversity Report!

The Craft Council had featured one of my masks to illustrate their Making Changes in Craft Report! Yes, I am proud that my work is used by an organization that supports Craft Makers in UK. 

This report is an important study from Dr Karen Patel of Birmingham City University’s Craft Expertise project, in partnership with the Crafts Council, which aims to support greater diversity in craft. All images were sourced from the Crafts Council Directory.

We tried to source a range of makers and different disciplines to highlight the breadth of craft to accompany the report, and your work was one we found visually striking. 

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