ARTEL is a group of professional artists who collaborate to exhibit their work whilst establishing a dynamic community. Working in the South Downs area, each artist has developed a unique and informed practice. The artwork from this covers a rich and diverse range of subjects and media shared through an annual show in Chichester at the Oxmarket Contemporary gallery. The next show is 13-25 October 2026.
ARTEL is a group of professional artists who collaborate to exhibit their work whilst establishing a dynamic community. Working in the South Downs area, each artist has developed a unique and informed practice. The artwork from this covers a rich and diverse range of subjects and media shared through an annual show in Chichester at the Oxmarket Contemporary gallery. The next show is 13-25 October 2026.
Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery
New work was created within the context of the artists ongoing practice that also considered this theme. Research resulted in final pieces that were provocative, playful, and profound, in drawing, sculpture, and painting.THE SPACE BETWEEN - 2025
Deborah Mitchelson MA
Oil on canvas
137cm x 102cm
Title “I Am Here”
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in”.
-John Muir
In this work I am exploring and reflecting on my own experience and emotions of walking in the landscape. I want to convey a sense of encountering and confronting the elemental ‘beingness’ of the landscape.
I am drawn to things happening in the area around the objects – the negative space. I paint the ceramics with underglaze, and apply contours, paths, map signs on the clay before firing with a transparent glaze.
In the painting, colour is used intuitively. I use large brush strokes, scrape back and splatter until I am happy with the surface. In my painting the canvas is stitched to signify the walk and the thread is left to give the impression that the walk continues, a meditation to an inner life.
In challenging our perception of spatial awareness, I encourage the viewer to look at the space between.
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