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Same Line Different Angle by Christopher Lees and Elizabeth Lees

You are invited to: Same Line, Different Angle An exhibition of watercolours, oil paintings and mixed media using found objects by Christopher Lees and Elizabeth Lees Faith House, Holton Lee 5th – 21st June 2005 Private view: Sunday 5th June  2005 , 11.30 – 13.30 Open daily.  Entry Free Holton Lee is situated off the A351 (next to the Romany Estate) just 6 miles from Poole and 4 miles from Wareham Please call first to avoid disappointment as Faith House is sometimes used for private bookings. Holton Lee, East Holton, Holton Heath. Dorset, BH16 6JN.  Tel 01202 625562 Registered as East Holton Charity No 1011867

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SAME LINE DIFFERENT ANGLE –
An exhibition of paintings and mixed media
By Christopher Lees and Elizabeth Lees

An exhibition of paintings and mixed media work inspired by the natural landscape opens at Holton Lee in Dorset on Sunday 5th June 
The Private View takes places on Sunday 5th June from 11.30 – 13.30.

The two artists are siblings Christopher and Elizabeth Lees. Both have a deep connection with the land at Holton Lee and this will be the first time their work has been shown on the site.

Elizabeth’s two main passions are sailing and painting and many of her watercolours hold memories of past expeditions. Any more than watercolours and drawings are impossible on a sailing boat so she has had to return to the studio to work on oil paintings from the images of her travels.

Her Caribbean paintings are full of the hot colours of the tropics, those of Britain are colder, but both have an intensity of colour that shows her love of the French Post Impressionists.

Christopher was taught as a schoolboy by the potter Gordon Bourne, and continued his training 25 years later at The Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design on a part- time foundation course.

Some of the images he makes reflect his fear that introduced species are taking over and pushing out the native. Sika deer monopolise the heathland habitats of Dorset to the detriment of roe deer, palourds take over the cockle beds, and red squirrels in Dorset live on Brownsea Island.

Christopher’s landscapes are painted in the studio and derive from sketches and photos taken whilst on walks.  They are of the places he lives; the sun in Dorset, the sea in Wales and the Alps in France. All Christopher’s pictures are about the natural world around him and how it affects him.

Christopher said…

“I try to mix the colours on the palette, rather allow them to mix on the knife or the brush. It is your eyes that make the colours in the pictures. Using a palette knife gives a chunky 3D to the pictures that I can scratch away to create features half seen half imagined . When I go for a walk with my sketchbook I find myself picking up stones, bits of driftwood, oak apples and become interested in how they can be arranged into shapes that produce a kind of harmony. 

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