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Lovely *
Initiated by Genny Early and Tony Davis in 2012, ArtMoreLovely has evolved over the years and yet remained a constant showcase every year at ArtWeeks in Oxfordshire.
We are a collective of artists and friends who inspire each other and enjoy showing work together.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Tony Davis
Tony Davis is an artist, poet and designer whose work explores relationships between ideas & language, people & places, and objects which interact with these. He is interested using visual and verbal tools to make protest and effect change in issues of social and cultural importance such as environmental pollution.
For the last 8 years he has been making work inspired by Nature with ablackbirdsang.com
For more about Tony's approach to art, design and language please see artmeetstony.com
Genny Early
Genny draws, paints, and linocuts the wildlife she sees when scything, walking or managing local resources.
She also works with local Oxfordshire conservation groups, managing landscape for wild flowers, feeding and monitoring farmland birds and other wildlife.
For the last 8 years he has been making work inspired by Nature with ablackbirdsang.com
Merlin Brooke-Little
Merlin Brooke-Little works primarily from ephemera and the unwanted. Wallpaper catalogues, old dictionaries, shopping lists, bits of string, National Geographics of yesteryear, ticket etc etc. He turns these into elegaic collage.
Old tools have become a recent resource, finding character, history and another life within these discards. Bringing a simile through wordplay, pun and form is an added bonus – encouraging a new view and giving another future to the past is an important motivation for him.
Original work, print editions and melamine place mats for sale.
Fredrica Craig
Fredrica creates original, contemporary paintings inspired by the Cotswold countryside. Her paintings are an exploration of the visual and emotional response to beautiful objects and landscapes. She enjoys exploring different mediums and surfaces but works mainly in oil on canvas.
Frederica has been exhibiting with ArtMoreLovely since it began!
See more at fredricacraig.com
Jemima Brooke-Little
Jemima is a painter who specializes in oils and oil pastels, along with various other mediums. Her artwork beautifully captures landscape scenes from the picturesque regions Oxfordshire and Cornwall.
Jim has recently joined ArtMoreLovely in an official way, having adorned the walls and worked at the cafe of Heyford House for many Artweeks'.
Kath Fotheringham
Inspired by her love of wild creatures and places, Kath draws in charcoal, and is interested in capturing the movement, feeling, spirit of an animal or place. She is also a graphic designer and has illustrated two books, one with Tony Davis and a childrens book with Fenella George.
See more at swimtheriver.com
Claire Fyfe-Jackson
Claire is a jewellery designer incorporating semi precious stones, mixed media paintings and metal flower sculptures all inspired by the natural world in all its many forms, especially flowers, plants and insects.
Claire has been exhibiting with ArtMoreLovely for three years now.
Dirk Pretorius
A self-taught artist, Dirk has been painting in his preferred medium, oil for many years. He loves painting landscapes, both local and Southern African from where he originated.
He first exhibited in Artweeks in 2011 and periodically since then before joining ArtMoreLovely in 2023.
Chris Matthews
After a long and rewarding career as a Graphic Designer, Chris has returned to the joy of painting.
Drawn to light Chris uses layers of texture and tone to add a depth to the subject, painting in oil and cold wax applied with palette knife, brush or anything!
This is Chris' first year of exhibiting with us.
See more at goodeggart.com
Charlie Henry
Part print, part spell, this series of work bares witness to the simple beauty of nature and the alchemy that happens when you lay things out in the light.
Inspired by the Victorian Art of Floriography, Charlie creates bespoke prints which explore and unleash the plant’s powerful properties. If you’re lucky you may even spot some gold-leaf leaves.
When she’s not printing with light Charlie can be found singing, or working as a therapist.
This is Charlies' first year of exhibiting with us.
Ed Murray
Ed is an Oxford based artist specialising in commissioned work in bronze. He enjoys the challenge of creating unique work and the variety it entails.
This is Ed's first year of exhibiting with us.
See more at edwardmurraysculpture.com