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Monica Ismay Horn A.R.C.A: Fine
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Monica Ismay Horn A.R.C.A: In 1980 I started teaching part time for St. Clare's, and for the Oxfordshire Adult Education Authorities. From 1993-1997 I taught exclusively for St. Clare's, mainly for the Liberal Arts Programme, teaching American and European University students, but also on the IB, EFL, American High School and Venice Programme. I also ran my own Easter and Summer Schools, teaching Portrait, Life, Landscape and Flower Painting. There was little time for my own painting, so in 1997 I decided to leave Oxford, moving to Exmoor to concentrate on my own work. However, I returned to teaching for Community Education in Somerset, but as this seemed to be taking over my life, I quit in July of this year, I am now running my own courses locally. For a few years, I ran Painting Holidays from a friend’s studio on Mull in May and June, but in 03 was asked to teach for Innemore Painting School on Mull. This went very well and I shall keep up, what I hope is becoming a tradition, and teach there again in August this year. I am a member of the Oxford Art Society with whom I frequently exhibit. I also joined the Somerset Printmakers but have resigned when I seemed to be doing very little printmaking. I hope to come back to this now I have a bit more time Besides opening my studios for the past three Art Weeks, I have exhibited with local galleries, here and in Oxford, with the Oxford Art Society and at the Royal Bath and West and at The South and West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, and have had work accepted, and my prints accepted and not hung by The RA Summer Show. I have recently joined with some friends, Jennifer Dagworthy, Maggie King, Hanna Lott and Joan Lyons, who also live on North Hill to form the North Hill 5. We meet as a discipline to work together, expand and develop our individual and group identity and to have exhibitions.
Monica's Work"I am essentially a lyrical painter, influenced by the environment of my native Jamaica, as well as by the landscapes of Canada and England. I seek to celebrate nature, concentrating on the harmony of relationships to achieve a rhythm and balance in my work. My chief influence has been the work of the Canadian Group of Seven; more noticeably in my recent paintings, where my concern with colour, texture and pattern have developed and found expression in experimenting with different media, notably oil pastels. Having taught for many years such diverse topics as sculpture, batik, print and paper making, I have long felt that I would like to expand the more conventional way that I paint and incorporate some of these disciplines into my work. I have exhibited in the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy, The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, the Gundry Gallery, The Manor House Gallery, and the Neville Gallery, Canterbury, the Lynda Cotton Gallery, Watchet, and the Book House Gallery, Taunton. From 1995-1997 I was the Membership Secretary for the Oxford Art Society, with whom I have frequently shown. My Portrait of Roger Opie hangs in New College Oxford. In 2000 I opened my studio to the public for Somerset Art Week. As a result of this, I received a bursary and training from "Walk in the Land of Light", and am now concerned with a series of interrelating digital prints, paintings and reliefs, which stem directly from this experience. Besides this, I continue with my long standing interest in landscape and flower painting, concentrating on watercolours, acrylics, and oil pastels, with occasional excursions into mixed media and oils." These pictures are selected from the 'On-line gallery' section
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