Venue
Venue Address
Brownston Stables
Rattery
Venue Postcode
TQ10 9LQ
What3Words
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Directions
From Pennywell towards Bulkamore, over the hill at Four Winds, Brownston is signposted next left. Or from Rattery Sawmill fork right up the hill, Brownston is signposted third right
Parking
Please park in the main courtyard
Venue Facilities
Artist statement
Celebrating the power of raw basic human emotion in simple and authentic forms. Recurring primordial themes of wild animal spirits, horses, birds and mythic creatures. Royal Academy exhibitor and multi award winning artist.
Expect original paintings in oil and gouache, prints, greetings cards and an exciting debut of hand built decorative ceramics.
Extended Bio
Sophie Wake graduated from Brighton University, with a BA Hons in Graphic Design / Illustration and worked for many years as a busy commercial illustrator.
Today, her Fine Art practice responds to the rhythms of meditation and ancient tree tea ceremony which has become a fundamental companion to her creative approach. Her Fine Art practice is suffused with her spiritual practice and influences of shamanism, rock art, ancient clay figures and pottery are channeled throughout her collections, celebrating the power of raw emotion in simple and authentic forms.
Working from her studio in South West Devon, she creates through quiet reflection. Guided by somatic experience her work is instinctive and intuitive, each piece an automatic process of deep self enquiry.
Working with oil on canvas or gouache on paper, imbuing a liminal quality, and a sense of in-betweenness her process dwells in intangible wordlessness.
Royal Academy's 250th Summer Show. Selected by Grayson Perry for HERD in his yellow room
Winner Best Artists Open House in 2019, Best Newcomer in 2018 and nominated for three other AOH Brighton Artists Open Houses.
