About Gallery35HighStreet

Polly Bennett graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School and went on to complete The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship. She is an Honorary Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, and a member of the Wilderness Art Collective. 

Polly is an environmental artist “portraying the land, with the land” through traditional craftsmanship, using locally sourced materials in a process likened to alchemy. Combining a museological approach to materials with immediate observational responses, she collaborates with, and investigates the surrounding rural environment to re-visualise her experience within it. The concluding work recollects the explored environment as a memorialised snapshot, producing abstract and process-led results.

Mulberry

Oak gall ink, gold leaf, pressed leaf on tea-stained watercolour paper

£220

Jude Kingshott is a mixed media artist based in Kent. She teaches extensively in Europe and has exhibited Internationally in both solo and group shows.

Jude has a passion for eco printing, indigo dye, book making and hand stitching. She works with both paper and fabric.

With fabric, she uses the Japanese technique of Shibori to create pattern on the fabric. These fabrics are further developed to create wall art and book covers. Paper and fabric are eco printed using plant material, mordants and natural dyes the outcome becomes framed art pieces or unique books.

A Selection of Silk Scarves Dyed & Ecoprinted with Eucalyptus Leaves £70

Scarlett collects both her imagery and materials from her surrounding landscape, mostly the Kent countryside.

She takes discarded objects, usually old building materials, which she feels reflect and capture a sense of that landscape, then gives them a second life by piecing them together to create her artworks.

Scarlett uses a combination of processes to create these works, but it usually involves scratching back into the surface of the material. She is drawn to their textures, colours and forms, particularly how these are created and enhanced as they deteriorate over time. 

Trees are the main imagery of Scarlett's work as she feels they are the perfect symbol of the strength and resilience of nature.

Thinking about the uniqueness of each one, how the landscape around it has changed over its long lifetime, and continues to change with ever increasing speed. It is this fragility of the natural world, as well as its strength and beauty, which Scarlett tries to capture in her work, by contrasting these celebratory images of nature, with the deteriorated, discarded objects on which they sit.

Smoulder

Drawing scatched into copper, mounted onto oak

35 x 20 x 2 cm

£220

For many years Louise was a successful wedding dress and textile designer in the UK, USA, and the Middle East. Through the decades she was producing extraordinary wedding dresses for the rich, and often ‘notorious’ high profile personalities from around the world, and for a steady stream of royal weddings in the Middle East.

Each dress was created using original textile designs hand-printed onto silk, lace and tulle, using unique techniques developed by Louise’s husband and business partner, John Chapple.

It was a wonderful life but relentless, and now Louise has turned her talents to creating intricate and very detailed collages depicting her ‘fashion fantasies’ as art works. She uses the same design elements and materials which went into her wedding gowns… each one a vignette of a girl wearing a stylised 'Louise’ fantasy gown, often accompanied by extraordinary depictions of little girls, monkeys, bull terriers, elephants and owls.

...and Gudren rode by...

Greetings Card

A5

£10