Details
| First Name | Joy |
| Last Name | Arden |
| Username | joyarden |
| Website | |
| Region | Edinburgh & The Lothians |
| Disciplines | Painting, Printmaking |
| Themes | Abstract, Landscape |
Statement
| Statement | Joy Arden is a painter/printmaker based in Edinburgh. She is a Fine Art graduate of Nottingham College of Art and Design. She lived and worked in Ireland for 20 years before moving to Edinburgh. She is based in Coburg House Art Studios and is a member of Edinburgh Printmakers. I paint intuitively. I strive to provide atmosphere and presence. I don’t usually start with a particular idea in mind. Or if I do, it inevitably changes as the work grows during the process of building and destruction. It is created “in the moment”, when eventually I find something that resonates with an experience, a feeling, a place, or other visual stimuli. I may not be able to say what that is at the time. But occasionally I have later recognised something particular that may have come to the surface. The work often reflects an interest in partially hidden forms, worn surfaces, marks made by human activity as well as natural forms. I am greatly interested in phenomena such as broken down buildings, archaeological sites, wastelands and areas of the environment where the urban and rural collide. The most recent work marks a shift in emphasis from the earth and tinted colours and the thick, opaque oil paint of previous paintings. I have been experimenting with mostly acrylic paint on heavy Fabriano paper and panel. They are an exploration of a different process, a new way of working the paint dictated by the different quality of the medium. They focus on gestural mark-making, emphasising the brushwork sometimes in broad sweeps. This has provided a way of developing a lively, animated surface. A darker, more saturated colour palette has also been developed as part of the process of layering and overpainting. The transparency of some paints and inks in this process providing a richness to the colour. In the last year 2021/22 I have been often been working in Edinburgh Printmakers when they have re-opened during the Covid crisis. I have been experimenting with a number of collagraph processes, especially with carborundum as a way of building a printing matrix. It is part of a process of searching for a printmaking method which suits my rather spontaneous method of working. I am especially attracted to carborundum which produces great depth of colour and tactile surface quality. |
Biography
| Biography | JOY ARDEN Painter /Printmaker Selected Exhibitions – 2022 Counterpoint – Two person exhibition at The &Gallery On Paper &Gallery 2021 Annual Winter Show &Gallery Solace – Edinburgh Printmakers Annual Exhibition – Society of Scottish Artists Newsprint Open exhibition YSA Tiny yet mighty – &Gallery 4th Anniversary exhibition – &Gallery Contemporary Figures – Society of Scottish Artists
2019/20 Winter Exhibition &Gallery Monotypes solo show– Coburg House Gallery Made at Castle Mills Edinburgh Printmakers
2018 Unrestricted – &Gallery Deluge – Edinburgh Printmakers Velvet Easel Group show
2017 Time and Place solo show, &Gallery, Edinburgh Connected. Group show &Gallery, Edinburgh Inception . Group show &Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 Unburdened Realities – three person show – Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay Outskirts – 5 person show – Arts Complex , St Margarets House
2015 3 Painters – The Arc Gallery, Stirling The Wonder Room – Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay Coburg House Art Gallery – Eight Coburg Painters at the Edinburgh Fringe
2014 Solo show &Collective Gallery, Bridge of Allan La Galerie 1940 – Winter exhibition Cabinet of Treasures – Compass Gallery, Glasgow. La Galerie 1940 – Edinburgh Festival Exhibition Tweedale Museum, Peebles – VAS members exhibition
2013 The Sutton Gallery Winter Show, Edinburgh. McMillan Cancer Support exhibition at Bonhams. Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries – VAS exhibition
2012 Transition – Solo show – Leith School of Art Gallery The Cabinet Show – Compass Gallery, Glasgow Art by the Water – nine painters – Coburg House Art Gallery at Leith Festival Art in Unusual Places ‘ Cockenzie Power Station/Three Harbours Festival Limelight Gallery, Morningside, Edinburgh The Scottish Arts Club – Prints by Edinburgh Printmakers 2011 Remix – Touring Exhibition (PVAF) Dunbar Hidden Edinburgh – Edinburgh Printmakers Winter Exhibition Art in Unusual Places Cockenzie Power Station/Three Harbours Festival ‘Encounters: Fire and Ice’ Exhibition Threshold Art Space, Perth Theatre Winter show Peter Potter Gallery – Haddington
2010 Compass Gallery, Glasgow – Winter Show Fire and Ice Exhibition/Event at the Crannog, Perthshire Art in Unusual Places Cockenzie Power Station/Three Harbours Festival Coburg House Gallery/ Edinburgh Festival Peter Potter Gallery Spring Exhibition – Haddington
2009 Solo show Engine Shed, Edinburgh Coburg Art Gallery Exhibition – Edinburgh Festival
2008 Bonhams Annual Summer Exhibition – Edinburgh
2006 Edinburgh Printmakers Exhibition
1980s and 1990s Exhibited in juried exhibitions and group printmaking shows in Ireland. Most noted: International Large format Printmaking Exhibition (1991) and New Irish Printmakers, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle (1989), Impressions, Galway, (1989)
Juried Exhibitions Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London – 2011 The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, Annual Exhibition 2012, 2013 , 2015 Scottish Society of Artists Annual Exhibition 2006, 2010 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021
Prizes: J and W Gordon Smith Trust Prize – Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition 2021 Anne Redpath Award – Visual Arts Scotland Exhibition 2011 Elisa Clifford Prize – Leith School of Art 2008 Impressions’ Print exhibition, Galway 1989
Artist organisation Elected Professional Member of Visual Arts Scotland – 2012
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