'Crossing The Water' - Rosemary Holcroft - Solo Exhibition

Celebrating her 80th Year Rosemary would like to share works spanning many years of involvement in the arts.

‘Crossing The Water’ series is largely inspired by an inherited collection of facsimiles of some of the earliest ever made woodcuts from the John Rylands Library, Manchester (where Holcroft’s great grandfather Henry Guppy was librarian).  These are both a connection with the artist’s past, and a history of image-making itself, transfixed and transformed.

Equally her ‘Soundings’ series uses discarded ‘found’  objects, glass, lead, wood scraps, texts, are elevated to the status of holy relics and are interwoven with a masterly interplay of painterly technique, transformed into a harmonious orchestral whole, full of meaning and tension.