Carole Bury
I am a Professional Artist working with Paper Textiles and Drawings which explore themes of geology, fossils and woodlands.
I studied Fine Art Textiles at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating in 1981. Since that time I have exhibited regularly.
For many years I was a member and enjoyed exhibiting with the 62 Group of Textile Artists. For a few years I lived and worked at the National Arts School in Papua New Guinea.
I now live in a very small village in the Cotswolds and love roaming the woodlands and fields, discovering new walks and vistas that fuel my drawings.
My drawings and textile works also reflect my love and fascination with fossils and geology; and the colourful charts and maps that represent them.
The textile works are made of tissue paper. White Tissue Paper is coloured with oil paint, which is permanent and light fast.
The single sheets of transparent tissue paper are cut and pieced together to form Seam Lines and Fault Lines inspired by strata found in Core Samples and from Geological Charts and maps. The colours in Geological Charts are usually quite bizarre and wonderful. They contain patterns and marks that are unique to these documents. The overlapping edges create new colours and tones.
Delicate mono-prints of ferns, paper cut-outs and fine pen and ink drawings can be detected within the fragile materials of the fossil beds. A Depth of Field is achieved by printing in front of, and behind the transparent layers.
A close examination and inspection may reveal some fossil fish waiting to be discovered.
Assembling these pieces is a lengthy process as the hand stitching is completely functional. The added dimension of the stitching adds variety to these strangely glowing pieces. The colours are carefully chosen to enhance the strata and bedrock.
Creating the work carries a history, which, as in its origins of Nature – is able to entice, illuminate and preserve.
Carole Bury
Artist in Residence - Nature in Art
Twigworth , Gloucester
27 Oct - 1 Nov 2009
Carole Bury: Exhibitions
CHELTENHAM GROUP OF ARTISTS
7 October to 21 October 2009
Gardens Gallery , Cheltenham
CHELTENHAM ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM
One Woman Show
Tissue Paper Textiles and Drawings reflecting my delight
for fossils and my love of landscapes
Bedgebury Pinetum
25 July 2009 to 31 December 2009
Park Lane
Goudhurst
Kent TN17 2SL
Telephone:01580 879842
A new collection of small Paper Textiles of Oaks, Rowans and Michaelmas Daisies.
Fosseway Artists.
Compton Cassey Gallery, Compton Cassey House, Nr Withington,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL54 4DE
April 2009
October 2008
Carole Bury/Nikky Corker - Paper Textiles and Drawings/ Acrylic paintings and Prints. Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham.
August 2008 'Summer Exhibition' Harlow Carr RHS Gardens, Harrogate
June 2008 'The Group'
Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham
May 2008 'Passion'
Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham
February - April 2009 Coln Gallery, Cirencester, Glos
November 2007 - April 2009 Bedgebury Pinetum Art in the Pantry. Woodland Textile Pieces
2007
155 Autumn Exhibition Royal West Academy Bristol
2007 2 Man Show Gardens Gallery Cheltenham
2007 Cheltenham Artists Open Houses – Studio open to the public in June 2007
2007 ‘Collage’. Mixed Exhibition. Salisbury Arts Centre
2007 ‘Colour Full’. Textile Forum South West. Salisbury Arts Centre
2006 - 07 ‘Woodland Journeys’. One Woman Show. Bedgebury Pinetum. Kent
2006 Artist in Residence. Nature in Art. Gloucester
2006 ‘Woodland Journeys’. One Woman Show. Museum Café.
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
2005 Designer Makers. Nature in Art. Gloucester
2005 Cheltenham Artists Open Houses – Studio open to the public in June 2005
2000 Harbour Point 2000. Rye Harbour, Sussex
1985 - 88 Working and living in Papua New Guinea. Teaching drawing and textiles at
The National Arts School, Port Moresby
1985 - 88 Exhibitions both in Papua New Guinea and Australia
1985 ‘Paper Standing Stones’. One Woman Show. Anatol Orient, Covent Garden. London
1982 - 85 Exhibitions Co-ordinator, Lecturer and Exhibitor
Stitch-Design, Isle of Dogs, London
1981 to 93 Actively involved in ‘62 Group of Textile Artists’ Invited to join on graduating in 1981, editing the newsletter for several years, and enjoying the mutual support of members.
Collage, Fabric, Mixed Media, Monoprint, Oils, Pen & Ink, Pen And Wash, Pencil/Charcoal, Watercolour
Abstract, Landscape, Trees and Foliage
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Mainland