David Stonehouse
Exclusively for The Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen Exhibition: Hepworth in Colour David Stonehouse created the
Intersection series.
Cambridge-based artist and maker, David Stonehouse is drawn to details within Hepworth’s Intersection (1946), particularly its sketched intersecting arcs and planes of gouache colour, he has combined the textural qualities of Hepworth’s granular pencil strokes with the taut strings that animate her sculptures - strings that Hepworth described as expressing the tension between herself and the wind of the Cornish landscape. Stonehouse has layered these dynamic lines and blocks of colour across the surfaces of his characteristic pared back ceramic forms.
Stonehouse’s work explores abstracted found motifs and objects of personal interest and significance, imbuing them with their own distinct character whilst still alluding to their source. In uniting these references with meticulously crafted pieces, he seeks to create objects that invite quiet attention. His practice is to work on several collections simultaneously, allowing them to inform one another conceptually, visually and materially. His process is one of deduction and scaling back, to let each element and material speak.
