Biography
Born in Belfast 1943. Attended the Belfast Methodist College and won the 6th form Art Prize, leading to an offer to attend Belfast Art College, but moved into teaching instead and trained at Stranmillis College, Belfast. Married Alan Snape in 1969, and the couple moved to Warrington, where Geraldine taught adult classes in drawing and painting from 1970 to 1977. Opened The Potters House studio and gallery with Alan in 1981. Finally returned to the study of art at Padgate College Warrington, and then studied as a part time student on the Fine Art degree course at Wirral Metropolitan College for 5 years.
Born in Belfast 1943. Attended the Belfast Methodist College and won the 6th form Art Prize, leading to an offer to attend Belfast Art College, but moved into teaching instead and trained at Stranmillis College, Belfast. Married Alan Snape in 1969, and the couple moved to Warrington, where Geraldine taught adult classes in drawing and painting from 1970 to 1977. Opened The Potters House studio and gallery with Alan in 1981. Finally returned to the study of art at Padgate College Warrington, and then studied as a part time student on the Fine Art degree course at Wirral Metropolitan College for 5 years.
Artists inspirations
I have an ongoing theme running through my paintings, "The human race on the edge". Obviously a play on words which probably comes from my childhood spent each summer in a caravan at Ballyferris in Northern Ireland. But also as a reference to the fragility of existence, however solid and sophisticated it may appear. So the sea paintings have a conceptual meaning behind them, as do the coastal edge paintings. Some reference comes from the early renaissance painters using man in boat in sea as a symbol of the human spirit battling against all that life can throw at it.
Other interests are painting Icons in the Eastern Orthodox style and life drawing.
I have an ongoing theme running through my paintings, "The human race on the edge". Obviously a play on words which probably comes from my childhood spent each summer in a caravan at Ballyferris in Northern Ireland. But also as a reference to the fragility of existence, however solid and sophisticated it may appear. So the sea paintings have a conceptual meaning behind them, as do the coastal edge paintings. Some reference comes from the early renaissance painters using man in boat in sea as a symbol of the human spirit battling against all that life can throw at it.
Other interests are painting Icons in the Eastern Orthodox style and life drawing.
Exhibitions
Warrington Art Gallery, Castle Park Arts Frodsham, Williamson Gallery Birkenhead, Prom Art Grange-over-Sands, Annelies' Clarke Open House at the Brighton Festival, Ascension Arts Brighton Festival.
Warrington Art Gallery, Castle Park Arts Frodsham, Williamson Gallery Birkenhead, Prom Art Grange-over-Sands, Annelies' Clarke Open House at the Brighton Festival, Ascension Arts Brighton Festival.
Coast paintings - Life drawings - Eastern orthodox icons
Geraldine Snape
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