Fausta Scarano
I was born in Italy in a small sea town on the Mediterranean sea.
The beach was a place for treasures to be found and that later I would transform into new objects. I was not aware that meant being an artist, that was my creative process, I was making art.
I studied art in the U.S. where I lived for about 20 years; I have been living in the UK since 2007. Art has always been in my life in different forms and types of work I have had, such as graphic designer, teacher of art workshops, director of a popular art based after-school program, art therapist. This website is to give the viewer a taste of my work. I consider myself an abstract artist.
Abstraction is my need to paint how this world makes sense to me. In my process I create a relationship with my artwork as I go through the aspects of giving and taking, creating and destroying, pushing forward and pulling back. I experience my process as a real dynamic conversation made of sentences, pauses and long silences. At times the work goes its own way, at times I take the lead, at times I wait to see where the work wants to go.
My interest shifts, from using acrylics on canvas, to working on paper using felt tips/markers which feels gives me more freedom to make marks. To me, writing and painting is very closely related, reminescent of learning how to write when very young.
Fausta Scarano
I was born in Italy in a small sea town on the Mediterranean sea.
The beach was a place for treasures to be found and that later I would transform into new objects. I was not aware that meant being an artist, that was my creative process, I was making art.
I studied art in the U.S. where I lived for about 20 years; I have been living in the UK since 2007. Art has always been in my life in different forms and types of work I have had, such as graphic designer, teacher of art workshops, director of a popular art based after-school program, art therapist. This website is to give the viewer a taste of my work. I consider myself an abstract artist.
Abstraction is my need to paint how this world makes sense to me. In my process I create a relationship with my artwork as I go through the aspects of giving and taking, creating and destroying, pushing forward and pulling back. I experience my process as a real dynamic conversation made of sentences, pauses and long silences. At times the work goes its own way, at times I take the lead, at times I wait to see where the work wants to go.
My interest shifts, from using acrylics on canvas, to working on paper using felt tips/markers which feels gives me more freedom to make marks. To me, writing and painting is very closely related, reminescent of learning how to write when very young.
Gallery 54 – The Premier Art Gallery in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
A fine collection of contemporary abstract art set within a 17th Century listed building.
Gallery 54 is accessible to everyone who enjoys viewing paintings, ceramics and glassware.
The 17th century building has been sympathetically restored to revitalise the quality and solidity of its natural building materials. Fusing original features with clean-lined contemporary design, Gallery 54 provides a space with an understated elegance and quirky appeal.
The exhibition space consists of two discrete floors balanced and accessed by an open stairwell gallery. The stairwell creates an open house ambience and displays artworks in a homely situ.
The strength of Gallery 54 lies in the calibre and integrity of the collected art. The viewing experience is energised by the juxtaposition of old and new. Contemporary abstract art backs on to the inherited architecture, off-setting modernity with sculptural period charm.
Gallery 54 currently exhibits work from over 20 artists. Some garnered from rich local talent, whilst others are national and international artists. Although the works lean towards, or securely belong in the abstract/modern genre, this does not limit their diversity.
All the artists share a keen aesthetic sense, absorption in interrelations of space, form and colour and evident joy in the suggestive ambiguity of abstract art.
Current artists include Alison MacGregor Grimley, Daniel Calderwood, Jo Jenkins, Mary Rose Young, Stuart Ellis, Amanda Hemmer, Duncan Johnson, Joanna Mayne, Rachel Sudworth, Zoe Taylor, Annica Neumuller, Fausta Scarano, John Maxwell Steele, Stephen Rippington, Celia Johnson, Isobel Mitchell, Maria Pierides and Steve Payter
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Gallery 54
54 High Street
Ross-on-Wye
HR9 5HH
01989 567 917
info@gallery-54.com
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