by Eleanor Saussey | Feb 28, 2024
Mondrian to the Abstract
SULA Gallery – February 2024
We were delighted to be involved with SULA Gallery’s first exhibition of the year. The gallery was filled with artworks inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian. Marking 80 years since the Dutch artist’s death.
Athene’s love of Mondrian’s work made this a perfect match. We created a new and unique pair of our recycled guitar plectrum waterfalls inspired by the shapes of Mondrian’s paintings. The earrings were then pinned through Athene’s abstracted self portrait painting on canvas. Using bold reds combined with our favourite french greys and spring greens – our own version of Mondrian’s restrained yet all encompassing primary colour palette.
by Eleanor Saussey | May 12, 2023
Guernsey Arts Network Open Exhibition – St.James Concert Hall 2022
We are delighted to be a part of Guernery Art Network’s annual exhibition at StJames Concert Hall. This exhibition will run from 31st October to 8th December in St.James Stairwell exhibition space.
We also displayed a piece in the 2020 Joy exhibtion also at St.James , you can learn more by clicking here.
This year’s we reprised an old favourite of ours. This peice is title “Butterflies around a hole” . Inspired by the migration of the monarh butterfly and our impact on the planet changing the time of their migrations.
Each butterfly was cut from recycled packaging and paper, the patterns from which create the marking on the butterflies wings.
by Athene Sholl | May 15, 2020
The Warmth of the Sun – Coach House Gallery 2020
The warmth of the sun was the February joint exhibition at the Coach House Gallery, Guernsey.
Butterfly double strand necklace – Chalcedony, Dyed Howlite butterflies and Czech crystals with sterling silver handmade clasp.
by Athene Sholl | Feb 1, 2019
Purple
Coach House Gallery, February 2019.
We were excited to have been invited back to the Coach House Gallery for another exhibition based on colour, following the success of Yellow.
We were delighted to have taken part in the “Purple” exhibition at the Coach House Gallery, St Peters, Guernsey.
This time the theme was the colour ‘Purple.’ This exhibition included work from a group of invited artists
For this exhibition we created a triptych of show stopping jewellery in the best colour ever – purple. Once again, there is an accompanying essay, where we spill the purple beans.
> These are an enriched version of our bestselling style of waterfall earrings, festooned with purple freshwater pearls, a much more elaborate earring.
Lovely and light to wear, but beautifully long, dangly and eye catching, Each pearl hangs separately from the chain, and they spiral around the centre line in such a way that the earrings are a mirror image of each other.
< Mary Quant eat your heart out. Massive blowsy flowers in purple leather, embellished with amethysts and dyed jade hearts. Hugely over the top, outsized and not for the faint hearted. We love making things like these, real show stopping pieces.
by Athene Sholl | May 11, 2017
Work In Progress
Gate House Gallery Guernsey, May 2017.
“Work in Progress” was an exhibition at the Gate House Gallery which featured a wide range of work from local artists, photographers, architects etc. Highlighting the need for continued arts education in schools, and shedding light on the creative process. My work for this event centres around colour theory and how it has informed my recent work.
For this exhibition at the Gate House Gallery, I was intending to explore colour theory and the science behind it visually, but the project morphed in a direction I wasn’t expecting it to take and I ended up exploring something much more personal. As I started writing about colour I found myself writing not about the colours themselves but about my own personal recollection of them. At which point I realised that I needed to explore colour in a more personal way, specifically what it means to me, creating my own personal rainbow of colour memories. The essays became the focus of my exploration with the actual resulting jewellery taking more of a back seat.
My submission for the Work in Progress exhibition consisted of my own personal reaction to eight different colours in the form of eight essays, each of which had an accompanying necklace as an illustration.
Click on the individual links below to explore each colour.
Prison Pink / Baby Pink
Greenery
The New Black
Safe Navy
Purple
Baby Blue/Electric Blue
Fiery Red and Yellow
Greys
