Bridget Stevens is a Brecon artist who works in paint and printmaking.
This exhibition features mainly original prints including the one below:
Bridget grew up in an artistic Quaker family in Llanfrynach near Brecon. She spent many years working as a specialist in decorating and building restoration and has taught use of colour on interior design courses in London.
Her artwork has always drawn on the colours of the welsh landscape and she feels a particular affinity with night-time and evening colours, the contrasts between blue and orange.
Her imagery draws on her own experiences of growing up locally, of many years of city living, and of personal bereavement.
Bridget is interested in myths and archetypes which often evolve into personal re-interpretations, and she also draws on a gradual lifetime process of one’s own personal myth-making. She challenges the idea that deeper, darker colours are associated with negativity. She views that ingrained way of thinking as an offshoot of a type of binary thought which empties the spirit from the world into the hereafter and which also finds its way into much ‘new-age’ thinking with its emphasis on ‘white-light’. Rather she works from a sense of Immanence, the sacred that is in each of us, and in each stone, river, tree and cloud.
As a member of Swansea Print Workshop Bridget has exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions.
The exhibition opens on November 2nd.
If you'd like an invitation to the Opening, where Bridget will be talking about her work, please email info@little-bird-creative.co.uk
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