Strictly Edwina Bridgeman
If you want a joyful uplifting experience this winter, then skip round to the Chapel Row Gallery, just off Bath’s Queen Square, where an exhibition of new work by Bath’s best loved artist Edwina Bridgeman opens on 5 December. All the works will be for sale and they are guaranteed to make you smile.
Bridgeman breathes new life into the discarded. Her brilliance lies in her ability to see the beauty in everyday objects. Whether it’s an old shoe tree, a bread bin, a twig or a bit of driftwood, Bridgeman transforms it into treasure. In her hands rusty fragments of metal and old bits of wood turn into dancing angels, dancing dogs and dancing horses.
Bridgeman’s theatrical background is crucial to her work. She trained at the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance and took her first diploma in Technical Theatre Arts. Her father, Ken Bridgeman, was a theatre and film designer and her mother Brenda, an actress. She worked as a scenery painter and prop maker at the Old Vic and in other theatres before becoming a full-time artist.
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11/12/2009