Renate Keeping’s work as an artist and illustrator can be seen at the Keeping Gallery. Shown below is an image from her series about the aging process. Renate has produced watercolours and three-dimensional textile pieces.
Wrinkles. The Textile, below, was a development of the water colour and the first Textile Renate did of “Jack”, above. The water colour was painted from life in an Old People’s Home.
The amazing wrinkles were the focal point and the marks of disintergration that seemed to be appearing in the skin. It was seeing the similarity between Jack’s brown wrinkled face and the brown wrinkled apple that made Renate realise the similarity of look in all living things as they age, going brown, wrinkling and shrinking, loosing all the beautiful sap of youth
Wrinkles This is a soft sculpture and a development of the other two. Renate has always been interestd in wrinkles and creases, the pattern they make and the light and shade they create. There are more works in this series.
Wrinkles - a textile
Apples
Apples, one of the many images from “Apples” A symbolic life cycle, where Renate follows the ageing of an apple from youth to very old age. Searching into the colour Shapes and Texture of each apple, of which there are very many. This was the first of many projects concerning the ageing of living things. The series is made both in Water Colour and in Soft Sculpure. This e.g shows a young and an old apple.
Leaf. The study of older Leaves both in water colour and soft sculpture is another project in the ageing series. They have two stages first the browning and wrinkling and then the disintergration. This example is larger than life. There are many more exhibits to see in the Gallery and many more of Charles Keeping’s illustrations.
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