Andree Shrivell and Marian Monas have often travelled together over the years, enjoying the natural world they encountered in local and distant places. These memories have been the basis of their creative practices. Andree Shrivell - Painting When out in landscape Andree responds to the patterns of the land with its changing elements of water, air and weather. She inwardly tunes into her body energy and her emotional responses to light, imagination, colour and breath, in a kind of alchemical transformation to what she sees and feels. The Water-Mixable Oil Paints she uses are also an alchemical process in a scientific sense: Oil and Water are opposed until an emulsifier is added. The paint dries through oxidation and behaves like conventional Oil Paint. Andree paints on the studio floor, with a sense of letting the painting reveal itself in an intuitive process through layering, pouring, dripping or scraping to open up to a liminal world on the edge of the senses. Marian Monas – Fused Glass How did glass first emerge from the raw elements ofnature? Geologists and scientists know it formed through extreme heat fusing natural elements and minerals: lightning strikes melting sand on beaches; seams of glass forming within cooled lava after volcanic eruptions; meteor strikes liquefying minerals and chemicals in the earth. It is extraordinary, that thousands of years ago people developed ways to fuse glass without the sophisticated kilns that a glass artist uses today… Modern glass artists and fabricators still drawn on this knowledge to produce float glass for windows, stained and fusible glass for domestic objects, jewellery and decorative works of art. Marian is fascinated by this timeless, alchemical transformation of natural elements into objects of beauty – by the wonder of calcium, silicon, carbon, tin, gold, lead, copper melting in the crucible of a modern glass kiln. Andree Shrivell Born in Caterham Surrey to artist parents, Andree had a playful arty upbringing making collages and copying how her parents used watercolours and oil paint. Leaving school she went to Croydon Art School for a Foundation Course 1968-1969 followed by a 3 year Textile Design Course SIA (Society of Industrial Artists) 1969-1971 By end 1971 she had got married and started a family, trained as a Yoga Teacher, and carried on with Sketching and Art History. In 1983 Andree moved to Norwich, continuing yoga classes and attended a Life Drawing Class at Wensum Lodge. She appreciated how yoga gave her a deeper understanding of the shapes and energies of the life models. The same awareness being needed in both situations and similarly to see the shapes and energies of the Landscapes she now paints. 1996-1999 she gained a Fine Art Painting Degree at Norwich School of Art & Design. The degree show was followed by various exhibitions in Norfolk, from coffee shops to Galleries including Aldeburgh Contemporary Arts, Grapevine Gallery and Doric Gallery, as well as regularly participating in Open Studios. Professional Organisations; Member of VAA (Visual Artists Association) Teravana International Artists online group @andreeshrivell Marian Monas Marian gained a BA(Hons,1st) Fine Art degree in her 60’s at the University of East London. During her degree course, she also attended extracurricular courses in the techniques of glass fusing to explore her lifelong interest in this medium. She creates fused glass landscapes of Tasmania, based on the memories and impressions of her childhood home in Tasmania: a wild, remote, beautiful, luminous, place... She now lives in Cambridge and also enjoys exploring how to capture the subtler watery atmosphere of East Anglia in glass: its coast, rivers and the wide skies. Her current interests for future pieces are to explore how to incorporate subtle presences of the past inhabitants of these landscapes. Marian uses powdered and cut glass, and high fire enamel paint which needs careful management during the fusing process, reaching temperatures of 870 C. Some works are thick blocks which have undergone multiple firings, the final one lasting over 40 hours. Other pieces are thin, delicate and lace-like. Marian was a Finalist in the 2025 Visual Artists Association’s Artist of the Year Awards (Landscape). She has exhibited in London and East Anglia, and her glass landscapes have been commissioned for private collections in UK, Germany and China. www.marianmonas.com @marianmonasart