Elaine Pamphilon and Christopher Marvell invite the Friends of Kettle’s Yard to their beautiful 400 hundred year old clunch house and studios in Fulbourn where both will talk about investigating and making art together and their thoughts for the future.

Elaine and Christopher have been thinking about, talking about, investigating and making art together for 40 years, 20 of which they did from their studio in St Ives, Cornwall.

Friends are free to wander about the house and garden, refreshments will be served, during which both Elaine and Christopher will talk about their own collection in the house and answer any questions that may arise.

£15 Friends, booking required, places limited.

Tickets include refreshments.

Own transport – Car / Car share / Bus

Address to be confirmed following booking

This event is now sold out, please email friends@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk to be added to the waiting list

Further information

Elaine’s paintings have a free, naïve, almost folk art style, with carefully chosen and subtly blended colours and clear graphic images.  Many of the subjects for her paintings come from keen observation of the time and place from travel, music, literature, still life and the landscape.

Christopher’s sculptures, modelled in plaster then cast into bronze, find form in modern British and primitive art ideas – and the graphic tradition of folk art and its narrative of storytelling.

The garden is regarded as an important extension of the house. The vegetable plots are a way of marking the different seasons – the preparation, watching the growth and ending with wonderful local fresh home produce.

Natural flowers are left to seed to provide texture and become an inspirational source for Elaine’s still life paintings. Birds are abundant here with tall grasses and seed heads – both Elaine and Christopher are keen bird watchers and value the song of the thrush and blackbird on a summer evening, pleasures gained from being in the garden.

Objects in the house have been carefully collected over years from many artist friends together with interesting furniture, textiles, and natural objects. It is evident, walking round the house, that Kettle’s Yard was one of the inspirations for their style of interior design, nurtured from student days when Elaine and Christopher met Jim Ede and Ben Nicholson.

This is event was organised by Friends of Kettle’s Yard Events Committee member, Sally Knowles

Access

Email friends@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk to request further access information

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