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Alan Foxley and Anji Jackson-Main are two of the artists currently exhibiting in our Selected Artists exhibition.

ALAN FOXLEY

‘In my work the emphasis has been on exploiting form and surface texture on both a small and large scale. From the study of beetles, Egyptian amulets, armour, boats, stones and the human form, ideas are developed through hand-building using crank stoneware and porcelain clays. Surface treatment consists of cutting, scratching and impressing into the soft clay and then continuing with slips, oxides and dry matt glazes.’

Alan Foxley Lecturer in Ceramics Saffron Walden College of Education until closure in 1977. Set up own workshop initially wholesaling work but eventually moved into direct retailing with hand-built and thrown ware. During the early eighties, also taught 3D design to Foundation students at St. Albans College of Art.

‘My interest in Ceramics began when I was introduced to clay as an art Student. Although I trained as a potter/painter and teacher, the urge to continue working with this fascinating and very versatile material has remained with me. Over the years, I have worked in a variety of ways with various clays and have returned to hand-building, with emphasis on a sculptural rather than utilitarian way of working; since 1998 I have concentrated on individual sculptural work.’

ANJI JACKSON-MAIN

In the 70s Anji Jackson-Main studied painting and film making at Sheffield College of Art. Since then she trained as a dancer, teacher and choreographer, founding a dance and performance company and directing several dance theatre shows.

‘I am interested in the in-between spaces of movement and time. What happens in the transition between one gesture and the next? What is movement? How do we get from here to there? In painting, all the gestures that make up the brush and body strokes on the canvas exist at once simultaneously. This is expressed in a multi-layering of image and pigment.’

My paintings are typically built up layer by layer, reduced and built up again. This series of work is exploring the relationship between remembering and the new. The works explore incomplete fragments of vision. Each isolated fragment represents an encapsulation of time, and is linked to memory (the past), but also to the future, in terms of its affect on the viewer and the potential for triggering of remembering in others.’

‘In 2008 I graduated from Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art. Since graduating I have worked as a painter, presenting my first solo exhibition at the New Hall Art Collection in 2009, and as a curator, notably co-curating the post-humus exhibition of the paintings of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, 2008. I am currently studying for the MFA in Fine Art.’