Due to COVID-19 Worhing Museum are re-visiting previous exhibitions; A Walk Round Cissbury Ring is one of them. It was a collaborative project with Tania Rutland, Jane Fox, Anna Twinam-Cauchi, Jenny Staff June - September 2019.
This was an exhibition that brought the 5 of us together over the practise of working on Cissbury Ring. The Ring is a well known landmark on the South Downs and has very close links with Worthing museum through its archelogogy history with Neolithic flint mining and iron age activities that are present and keep presenting to us.
Our conversations with each other prompted us to visit the site together and begin to share our different interests and interpretations of the site and develop the work for this exhibition. The exchanges between the 5 of us were enriching and the work produced spoke to each other so well, though all diverse and different in surprising ways.
This painting Distant Blue was my first large watercolour 400cm x 175cm and it was curved round the corner of the gallery wall. It is a view from the top; I wanted it to convey the scale and space that you feel there and how this scene is viewed by many walkers. I wanted to capture the visual layers and marks that you may experience through colour and shapes in paint. The exhibition gave me the time to experiement with large watercolours and change the way I present my paintings. I chose to hang it on a curve which enabled the viewer to become more emerced in the landscape.
Below is the link to the Worthing Museum Digital Exhibition:
https://wtam.uk/digital-exhibitions/emily-jolley-a-walk-round-cissbury-ring/