South East Open Studios - South East Open Studios

SEOS 2022 – 3 to 19 June

South East Open Studios is a fantastic opportunity to step into studios and meet artists. It is one of the most established annual arts events in the South East.

SEOS is a 17 day event and our aim is to enable the art-loving public to meet artists, engage with art and crafts as an industry and artists as local business people.

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Some more of our artists with their work, a lovely

Some more of our artists with their work, a lovely selection of painters … clockwise from top left:

Rowena McWilliams (our Area Coordinator for the Tenterden & Headcorn area) @rowenamcw

Liza Mackintosh at the easel @lizamackintosh

Jude Askey-Brown (our new Area Coordinator for the Maidstone Area - welcome Jude!) @judeaskeybrown

Richard Heys at the recent Affordable Art Fair @richard.heys

If our members post pictures of yourselves with your art we will repost it 🤗

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Are any of our artists planning to apply …? Let

Are any of our artists planning to apply …? Let us know we will help cheer you on

#Repost @artistoftheyear with @make_repost
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What a treat that was! If you'd like to take part in our next series of #PAOTY or #LAOTY, then apply now via the link in our bio.

Deadlines for submissions are:
PAOTY: 11th February 2022
LAOTY: 14th April 2022

We look forward to seeing your pieces 🎨

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Get ready for this super event next weekend in Ten

Get ready for this super event next weekend in Tenterden - featuring loads of our talented artists

St Mildreds Church Hall TN30 6AT
10 to 5pm

#Repost @scarlettfineart with @make_repost
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Next weekend 🍃

Artist Takeover Day 5 - @janemcordery In the last

Artist Takeover Day 5 - @janemcordery

In the last week I have talked about what inspires me to make art, my use of form and the methods and processes I use but I haven’t yet talked about my use of colour – one of the most important tools for artists.

Although many of my works can be almost monochrome, I often select colours to reinforce the intent of my artwork.

The piece that was selected for the SEOS guide (image 1) was inspired by looking at social media and the use of the internet and how in the West we focus on global connection. The eye is immediately taken to the colourful threads. Yet behind the coloured thread is black thread, representing the parts of the world that are not globally connected; areas of the world we do not readily see from the West.

In image 2, a sculpture called ‘The Weight of Memory’ - another piece made in response to an exhibition about Virginia Woolf - the colour of the frame was selected as Woolf’s happiest memories were from beach holidays at St Ives.

In images 3 and 4 colours were selected again to reinforce the intent behind the work – the sense of a party going on (image 3) and to convey a creative spirit (image 4), orange often being used to denote creativity.

In my sculpture ‘Eve’ differing colours of red where selected to represent the eight major blood groups.

Other works, where my focus is mainly on shape or form, are often fairly monochromal, as in my drawings shown earlier this week.

My sincere thanks go to SEOS both for offering a fantastic opportunity to exhibit work in our studios though the Open Studio initiative but also for continuing to support Regional artists by giving opportunities such as these Artist Takeover days, and re-posting images, to allow individuals to have a louder voice than would otherwise be heard. You do a great job!

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SEOS Artist Takeover Day 4 - @janemcordery In dev

SEOS Artist Takeover Day 4 - @janemcordery

In developing my ideas I typically use a repetitive process, which allows me freedom to think while I am developing my work; it is a haptic way of working.

The first work I made in this way was ‘Fishing for Souls’ (image 1), where I glued hundreds of cut lengths of fishing lines into repetitive patterns of circles.

Sometimes I use a finger knitting process. For example in making ‘Unravelled’ (images 2 and 3) and ‘Eve’ (image 4 and 5) I am alluding to present day links in the past so leaving my DNA on the work as I create the piece is integral to the work, it links me with the past.

In making some of my thread artworks (images 6 and 7) the thread is wrapped continuously around a sheet of glass within the frame – the glass represents the fragility of the world we live in. The thread can have multiple meanings, often colour associated to my thought processes. This last work was made in response to an exhibition about Virginia Woolf.

One idea often bounces to another while I am working. Some of my drawings can be a precursor to a new sculpture.

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SEOS Artist Takeover Day 3 - @janemcordery Recent

SEOS Artist Takeover Day 3 - @janemcordery

Recently I have used a rules and random method to visually explore the complexity of how we connect to others.

When we meet people it is partly through controlled situations: where we live, go to school, college, work etc, and partly by chance: introductions, transport, holidays, pubs, clubs, chat rooms etc, so using a rules and random methodology reflects this pattern of connecting with others.

Currently I am exploring this complexity of connection through drawing, trying to create a 3D impression on a flat surface, to convey the ‘layering’ of connection but also using other methods, such as layers of tracing paper and 3D sculptural methods using thread.

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SEOS Artist Takeover - Day 2: @janemcordery I am

SEOS Artist Takeover - Day 2: @janemcordery

I am inside my home studio, drawing lines.

In all my artworks - sculpture, painting and drawing – line, shape and form have become signifiers, almost like a visual language; whether this is expressing a conceptual idea or simply suggesting a connection to place.

When I draw lines they often represent connections but can also suggest a barrier, when looking at migration or landscape for example.

Having studied history I do feel life is cyclical, not only seasonally but in events and generational phases; we are connected by history. Events have a way of repeating themselves in differing contexts.

Sometimes circles in my work represents this cyclical nature to life but may also suggest the world, sun or global connection.

Sociologists suggest we connect in groups of three, building social groups as we go through life. I am currently using triangles as a way of trying to visually understand how complex our connected world is becoming and how hard this may be to maintain. Triangles have come to me to imply social connection.

I don’t allow myself to become constrained by these meanings or this language; it develops and changes as my artistic ideas change and develop.

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Artist Takeover Day 1 - @janemcordery So pleased

Artist Takeover Day 1 - @janemcordery

So pleased to be part of SEOS’s Artist Takeover – my name is Jane Cordery and I work in a variety of media including drawing, painting and contemporary sculpture.

I used to be an HR Manager for the not for profit/charity sector so it is not surprising that I am interested in the way that we connect as human beings, not only with each other but also with: our environment, places, history and memories, and how we become disconnected with these.

This often takes me into socio-political issues, such as climate change, migration, the impact of social media, and more recently, of course, bereavement and loss arising as the result of the pandemic.

I don’t express this in an obvious way, I work abstractly, often condensing many ideas into a single piece. My work tends to focus on aspects that are generally overlooked or simply allude to bigger issues without direct reference.

Most of my artworks have a story or reason behind them but I am not looking for a viewer to interpret the intent behind my work. I simply use conceptual ideas as a way of making different art that raises questions. If I simply use my eyes then I am, by default, expressing visually a world everyone sees. If I combine what I see happening in the world with ideas in my head it helps me to find an individual artistic voice and I leave the viewer to bring their own interpretation to my work (although am always happy to explain if asked).

Image: So pleased to be selected for SEOS’s Artist Takeover, this is me in my latest solo show at Whitstable.

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Starting on Monday next week, SEOS Artist Jane Cor

Starting on Monday next week, SEOS Artist Jane Cordery will be taking over our Facebook and Instagram feeds! Keep an eye out for Jane's fascinating artworks...@janemcordery

Jane is a conceptual, abstract artist working in paint, drawing and sculpture (typically thread). Jane is concerned with human frailty and connection.

Find Jane's links and more at: www.seos-art.org/jane-cordery/

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