Kes says, “I have been inspired by medieval art and armour since first seeing and learning about the Bayeux Tapestry as a schoolboy. Over the years I have developed a style that is equal parts inspired by medieval manuscripts and the great French comic artists that created Tintin and Asterix. My earlier battle pictures used flat colours and, more latterly, I have used shading, but they are all unified by a love of big movements, action and chaos.

Alongside these historic battles I also recreate medieval knightly effigies and monuments, which complements and informs my research for battle pictures. I am currently recreating 8 x 13th century knights that inhabit niches on the west front of Wells Cathedral and I will be unveiling these recreations at my exhibition."

Exhibition included in museum entry fee.

Christopher Binding: Christopher’s work is concerned with the formal language of abstraction where flat fields of colour juxtapose contrasting surface textures. Each work is intentionally pared down to reveal the poetry of their making. Pastel, paint, ink on wood or paper reveal a delight in the physical properties of each medium. This intentional aesthetic serves the structure of each composition. Contrast and division, tension and balance, strength and fragility find their voice in the paradoxical complexity of a simple geometry.

Recent exhibitions include RWA Bristol Open, where the artist was awarded the St Cuthbert's Mill Work on Paper Prize.

Tony Martin: Much of Tony’s work involves paper, the fragility of cast off scraps or a humble surface retaining the history of creative process: lines drawn, partly removed and redrawn, spaces reworked into something new. His collages and drawings require a precision of construction wedding spontaneity and intention. Recent projects include collaborations with Guillemot Press and Irish poet John F. Deane, who writes: “When I see Tony Martin’s drawings I think of the undertow, scales, linear up-and-down, over-and-back, cosmic geometry of all music. As with a musical fugue you arrive after your journey where you began, knowing the clarity of line that can be resolved out of the blur of contemporary seeing”.

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