Sounding Place
Debbie Lyddon and Claire Oxley
Each piece in the exhibition originates from listening to the resonances of the Norfolk landscape. The works represents the sonic relationship Debbie and Claire individually have with the environment: a response to sensing the sounds and echoes of a physical space.
Debbie’s work explores landscape and place. Her inspiration comes from experiencing and paying attention to her surroundings. Cloth is at the centre of Debbie’s practice. She combines traditional stitch techniques with non-traditional materials such as bitumen, salt and wax to make 2-D and 3-D works that evoke the sights, sounds and touch of coastal environments. Debbie searches out equivalences between the aural and visual rhythms in the landscape: the regular or irregular gaps between objects and sounds, the meandering of contrapuntal voices, and silences or empty spaces.
Claire’s paintings chart the pulses and shifting seasons of the region; music (both ordered and naturally occurring) plays a huge part in her thinking about colour, mark-making and composition. Some pieces resemble graphic scores – playable paintings. Claire is a synaesthete, meaning that (in her case) she senses colour and sound interchangeably. Hers are works that chart and describe the skies, seas, moons, fields, flowers and foliage of the area: canvases of energy and flux. These works are felt and heard as much as seen – stirring memories and experiences from this vast county.
Private View 26 September 2-24 2-4pm
North Norfolk Exhibition Project 