‘Mark This Moment’ Exhibition at The Crypt

16/06/21

I’m really excited as next week is the opening of my joint exhibition at The Crypt Gallery, in St Ives, with the artist Stephanie Sandercock! We scheduled this exhibition for 2020, but because of the pandemic it had to be put back a year so here we now are in 2021.

Stephanie and I have known each other for 3 years and though it would be an interesting experience to organise our own exhibition, as our work has many cross overs in terms of the subjects we explore and the layering process we use. I’m looking forward to seeing how our work comes together in the large gallery, to create a cohesive mix that presents our most recent explorations.

We will both be at the gallery each day from 10- 5pm to welcome visitors and share more about our inspirations and processes. I will be showing a selection of new paintings in a range of sizes and prices and will also have a limited number of Giclee prints available which I have order especially for the exhibition. I will also be sharing snippets on my Instagram feed throughout the week, so if you can’t make it in person do keep a lookout on there.

‘Mark This Moment’ Press Release  

‘Mark this Moment’ is a joint exhibition by contemporary painters Laura Menzies and Stephanie Sandercock that showcases recent work, that documents the artist’s individual experiences of this unique time.  Demonstrating a powerful approach to process and the materiality of paint, this exhibition aims to provide a contemplative and uplifting space where viewers can lose themselves in the rich layers of texture, colour and marks that unite these works. Both artists will be at the gallery during the duration of the exhibition to greet visitors and share more about their paintings and processes. 

 Laura combines oil, cold wax, collage and spray paint to create abstract paintings that are lyrical in style. Her work has an organic and imperfect feel and often contains harmonious pallets and soft shapes, inspired by living stones thrown from the coastline.

Stephanie creates unique effects with ground limestone and marble plaster. Large-scale acrylic works on aluminium and rusted steel add a strong physical presence to the show, while delicate natural mica crystals catch the light like quartz in the Cornish coastal rock.