The Dell Quay Artists Exhibition

Six accomplished practitioners have come together in this eclectic exhibition at Arundel Museum.

They each have their own distinctive way of seeing: their ability to construct and manipulate mental images, the seeing of pictures. In part these are pictures assembled from images observed with their own eyes. However, the kind of pictures with which these six artists struggle are seen with another eye … the mind’s eye.

To see with the mind’s eye is a much more complex process, for here their pictures are not only painted with factual observation but with their creative imaginations, with ideas, memory, symbol, inference, and feeling. They may be pictures of pictures, perhaps a collage of different images, some based on observation and understanding, some the pictures others have seen and shared.

To see clearly with the mind’s eye is only part of the story. For these six artists to realise the images that form there requires the mastery of their practice, the ability to translate through their chosen media and communicate what they see in their mind’s eye.
In spite of the six unique visions exhibited here the works taken as a whole have been curated to display a coherence of scale and sensibility that is in keeping with the exhibition space in the Museum. Six Ways of Seeing is an engaging and rewarding experience.

(Dell Quay Artists is an informal group of practising artists who meet regularly at Dell Quay on Chichester Harbour to share their practice and their creativity, benefiting from their shared intellectual and practical experience.)