Shared Spaces Exhibition

Artists Belinda Ireland, Mhairi Treharne and Emma Roberts present the exhibition, Shared Spaces at the Gallery, Birdwood House, Totnes TQ9 5SQ.

Brought together through a year of reflective practice and mentoring at the Newlyn School of Art, the trio recognised a strong resonance between their works, each embedded in a sense of narrative, nostalgia and memory.

The exhibition brings together the artists' natural resonating themes, from wistful affections for a sense of place, and the universality of common experiences, to the intangible elements of preciousness.

Ireland's work explores colour and light, creating a harmonious, almost luminescent, relationship between her subjects. She treats the surface of her paintings as a collection of different hues and shapes that inform a mood and interlock into imagined narratives.

Treharne's distinctive work uses thinly veiled glazes on plaques, dapples of pigment, wood singe marks and wire stitching. They are often multidirectional, allowing the freedom to explore and view them as you wish.

Roberts focuses her art practice on figurative works, reflecting on the importance of memory. She is intrigued by the universal phenomena of how preciousness becomes entwined in an object, why there is such clarity around some memories, and how the accumulation of moments forms us as individuals.