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At Fermynwoods art is an integral
part of our home, originally built as a water tower. Exhibitions are free
of the formality of the museum or public gallery. At Fermynwoods art is
part of the everyday environment, enabling the visitor to imagine art
in their own home.
A wide selection of work
on offer
Fermynwoods offers a wide selection
of unique work of the highest calibre, with opportunities to invest in
art by established artists and to support emerging talent. Editioned prints
offer a means for the collector with a modest budget to collect works
by recognised artists.
A machine for seeing
with
Jim Ede, founder of Kettle's Yard,
Cambridge recognised art as 'a way of life'.
Art is a visual language that
can say things to us, in a way that writing and words cannot. Sometimes
art communicates in an overt way through a code of recognised symbols,
as for example figurative painting often does, but it also communicates
on other emotional or subconscious levels. In this way, art becomes 'a
machine for seeing with'. The best art changes our individual perception
of the world to the benefit of a sense of personal well being.
The everyday experience of
art is therefore a matter of how one looks at things around us; if art
gains life by being lived with, the home is given an immense addition
by art.
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