Binny Mathews ‘Oranges Melange’. oil on canvas. 60 x 60cm. 2025
Sladers Yard
JOURNEY
Two artists - One studio - Two new bodies of work
Binny Mathews new paintings of the sculptor’s studio
Clare Trenchard new ceramic sculpture and drawings
Saturday 17 January – 7 March 2026
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Four years ago, two acclaimed artists embarked on a project which would change the way each of them worked.
When successful portrait painter Binny Mathews had the idea of painting another artist at work, observing their most private creative moments and recreating the atmosphere of absolute concentration within the studio, she approached her friend the sculptor Clare Trenchard. Clare agreed for one month on condition there would be no talking and no lunching (they are both tremendous talkers and lunchers.) The arrangement continued for four transformational years.
"Binny’s journey has been a freeing, a renewal and a reconnecting to the clarity of her voice. Allowing the way she lays on paint and her sense of colour, light and form to take over has produced paintings with a new energy and lightness. By treating the seemingly chaotic environment of the sculptor’s studio as an abstracted landscape, Binny’s paintings reveal the quiet beauty of the creative space."
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