Transference ...The 100 artists show preparations commence...Halesworth Gallery.

"TRaNsFEReREnCe"100 Artists ShOW,                                

The Bi- annual 2019 show is under way!...

Having applied to join the collaboration a 100 artists now commence to create art from sheets of dry transfer lettering, we have been given a wide range of typography lettering, all shapes and sizes including numbers. These transfers are old therefore leave no guarantee they will function. The sheets can be traced,scanned, photographed and used as tools for inspiration !! ? &...;'

The event happens with curating the show, which commences on August 15th 2019 at The Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk. P. V. happening on Friday 16th August.

What I enjoy about this event is that each artists ideas will be varied and diverse. Each bringing into the collaboration their own interpretations and meanings...from these dry letter transfers.





My ideas will be based around inspirational conservation / ecology books, and quotations both historical and current. The issues based around the effects of human activity on the Planet over the last 50 + years. So far I have experimented with the lettering making notes and sketches...


The intention is to use ideas from my project work Organik Planet 2030. By reusing old discarded art works - recycling them into new works.The old dry transfers adding to the idea of creating something new from discarded man made materials.... 

Here are some of the dry lettering and a recycled art work.

Exploring ideas by adding the dry transfer lettering words Aldo Leopold , 1949, eco-systems, community, etc relating to Leopolds book

part of unfinished work acrylicpaint, recycled art and dry lettering 2019
by yvonne marie forster

These ideas are still evolving ...eventually I hope to create one piece of artwork from all the small squares not sure how large presently , probably some where between 9 and 18 the final piece is not to exceed 1500mm....

Part of an ongoing series

'Altered Perceptions" are mixed media abstract works on canvas,  60x60cm.  The medium used are washes with layers of thicker vibrant acrylic paints, applied by using a combination of brushes, splattering techniques and palette knives. I also apply ink,and oil pastels. After embedding the collaged photo image into the abstract I finally emboss with gold leaf.

Altered perception, Mixed Medium, 2019
by yvonne marie forster

Over the last few years my practise has considered the impact that human activity has on our planets  eco-systems.
I have explored how industrialised capitalism continually creates and propagates new senses of needs and wants in order to perpetuate itself. The subsequent, internalised desire to consume as an affirmation of self and identity has inadvertently resulted in our alienation from both community and the natural world : The natural world historically seen and perceived as an unlimited abstracted resource of raw materials - And sadly a dumping ground for our human waste.


In the late 1940s Philosopher Conservationist Aldo Leopold's 

perceptive observations still resonate today.....
If we fail to reconnect with nature, both nature and humanity
will suffer."
This recent work is inspired by Rachel Carson’s environmental book, "Silent Spring." The imagery I create are responses to our abstracted view of nature where interconnectivity has often been neglected. Pesticides used to deal with one species of fauna have had (predictable) consequences for other insect species, bees,butterflies and birds. 



Altered Perceptions' are mixed media paintings that portray a solitary butterfly

Altered Perceptions Mixed Media o n
canvas, 2019, by yvoone m 

and/or bird in a vibrant but abstracted space embedded with the phrase....

" Humankind...we are but one thread ...all things connect." The creatures isolated from their natural habitats emphasising the precarious nature of fragile ecosystems when impacted by industrial pesticide's.

On a positive note George Monbiot stated : "An ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair" our current realisation of the need to take stock is hopefully gaining momentum....