Transfigurations

Transfigurations

Flora McLachlan RE and Gini Wade

22 March - 10 May

The Artists

Flora McLachlan RE is an artist/printmaker specialising in etching and recently in lithography. She lives on the edge of the Preseli moors, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, and a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy. She has a Fine Art MA from Aberystwyth University where she now teaches etching and stone lithography. She is also a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers.

"In my work, I enjoy working with unexpected traces, observing and responding to them, to dream my images into being. Through the alchemical portals of etching or lithography, I can enter different magical worlds and make my work in those fairytale atmospheres. “

Gini Wade is an artist /printmaker specialising in lithography. She also makes paintings, ceramic sculptures and animations.  For this exhibition she has created a body of new paintings.

Originally from London where she studied at Central St Martins, she has lived in Mid Wales for most of her life. After working as an illustrator and childrens’ book author, she gained a Fine Art MA from Aberystwyth University. She was the lithography tutor at the Sidney Nolan Trust, Herefordshire, and a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers for many years.

“My images reflect a fascination with the power that ancient myths still have to shape our modern imagination.  Transformations and interactions between the human, animal and Otherworlds are all elements in the magical stories told to make sense of the mystery of existence. “

Transfigurations

Transfigurations is an exhibition of prints and paintings by two very different artists, who, however, share a commonality of subject matter and technique. The works of both artists explore the liminal spaces between the worlds we see and the magical worlds of the imagination. Hybrid beings float and dance through the images. A suggestion of reaching for the Other is always present in the work.