Faded Lines art exhibition at Stamford Arts Centre, until April 22

Art lovers can enjoy the variety of styles and content of art works by Peterborough’s Tony Nero, Stacey-Ann Cole and Paul Saunders at a new exhibition which opened yesterday. Faded Lines, runs until April 22 at Stamford Arts Centre in St Mary’s Street, open daily from 10am to 5pm.

“In our practices, art is always about mark making, but often we blur the lines between what we see to be real and what we believe to be imaginary,” said Tony of the latest exhibition.

“By doing so, we continuously create the illusion that leads to the magic of art.

“As friends, we have been exhibiting together for a number of years now and this collaboration includes photography, watercolour, acrylics and oil paintings.”

Stacey-Ann, who makes Afro Caribbean centred art in a wide variety of media, began exploring abstract art because of the freedom to concentrate on shape, line, colour and pattern, without necessarily feeling the need to reproduce a likeness of an object, landscape or person. She uses watercolour paint as her main medium plus acrylic paint, gouache and ink, as it helps her to come up with fresh ideas and new work.

Stacey’s use of sketchbooks to play around in, is also an important part of her process.

Paul is a meticulous photographer.and art photography is his main interest at the moment. As he completes each image, his enthusiasm for probing further in this direction increases.

Many people may think that photography is a poor relation to ‘proper’ art but as Paul points out “many hours over several weeks” can be spent setting up a photo, and there can be no certainty of a successful outcome, and there are many failures.

You will see the finished article in his exhibition but what you won’t see are the hours spent getting everything as perfect as possible.