For the next couple of months we are very pleased to be hosting the work Moira Hay, local artist & former illustrator/designer. The pieces, though digital, feel like collage, bringing together graphic illustrative elements and tangible textures and a woven poetry throughout and give a very fluid feel. Bright and colourful, they will be welcome to the eyes as the nights draw in.
Also included are many reproductions of cover artwork from our long missed local magazine The Grapevine (still available online).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Moira Hay was born in a former workhouse on the edge of Hampstead Heath, N.London, raised by adoptive parents in Surrey where urban meets rural, lived on boat on the Thames as a student, then followed the river over Kew bridge to a flat in Chiswick, and on to a little house near Teddington Lock; again west to a village near Guildford on the River Wey and finally further west to rural Ceredigion, where she has lived since 1988. The flow of life is made physical when her local river makes an occasional visit inside her home; they co-exist until it returns to its usual course.
There’s always been a river, and a keen awareness of how place nurtures, inspires and is owed respect.
As an art student at Kingston Art School (Foundation course) then Wimbledon College of Art (Diploma Course), she revelled in all art disciplines, finally settling on Illustration and Graphic Design, working her way through employment with a design studio, publisher and an ad agency, while producing commissioned illustrations in her spare time. In 1977, she became fully freelance, working in a range of different styles for a broad spectrum of clients including most of the London publishers, corporate companies, ad agencies, design studios and individuals in the UK and Europe. Retirement’ from commissioned work enabled a change, allowing her to express her love of merging image and text – on her own terms – within a long-held context of eco-awareness and respect for the natural world – which we must nurture in return.
The giclée prints displayed here are framed by Mick Wall, woodturner/woodworker.
Please contact Moira for further details <makinghay@workandplay.myzen.co.uk>
