Artists Jane Eaton and Lois La Barbara with sculptor Anthony Wilson who are all working with recycled items for exhibits included in the Cloth Road Arts Week
A GROUP of artists is using recycled art to promote green issues during an annual arts event across west Wiltshire.
The third Cloth Road Arts Week, which we have featured in our Times 2 section in previous weeks, runs until Sunday celebrating and promoting the work of artists in Trowbridge, Bradford on Avon, Melksham and the surrounding villages.
The artists have come together to promote sustainability issues relating to the survival of our world, as part of their exhibition.
Fine artist Jane Eaton, the host, has invited fellow recycling artists to exhibit at her home studio in Blind Lane, Southwick.
Her painting called Mother and Baby is set on recycled cloth. She says the painting reflects her admiration for French artist Matisse as well as her wider appreciation of Japanese art.
The 60 year old also makes jewellery with recycled beads, tin cans and other abandoned bits of refuse.
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Her colleague Lois la Barbera's painting Turban is joined by Anthony Wilson's Blue Frog, made out of the mudguard of a car and a squashed satellite dish, covered with recycled glass finished off with chopped up CDs.
This summer Mr Wilson is curator and exhibitor in the Love London Recycled Sculpture Show at London Zoo.
Ms Eaton said: "Painting is great because it's hard to control and it lives its own life. It's fun to mix colours and I like a lot of them, but sometimes, a lonely black line does and says much more.
"From granny's button box to scrap yard finds, your imagination can run riot if you explore the technique of recycling and reinventing rubbish.
"The artists create thought provoking art encouraging the viewer to see things afresh.
"A favourite concept of mine is that the Japanese believe that when something has been damaged and therefore has a history it becomes more beautiful."
For more information on the festival events visit www.clothroadartists.com
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