Pastel Society | Annual Exhibition 2025
Dates and times of opening:
Private View: Tuesday 21 January, 6pm to 9pm, official opening at 7pm
Exhibition opens: Wednesday 22 January, 10am to 5pm daily
The Pastel Society Art Event Evening
Tuesday 28 January, 6pm to 8:30pm
Exhibition closes: Saturday 8 February, 5pm
The 125th Anniversary Exhibition Guest Speaker will be: Carole Hübscher CEO of Caran d’Ache Sponsors of the Pastel Society
To view the interview with Caran d'Ache CEO Carole Hübscher https://youtu.be/8U-AipaeTRU?feature=shared
To View the Call for Entries Video:
Details regarding Submissions and the exhibition can be found here: https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/open-calls/pastel-society
Jaana Fowler PS
Artist's Statement and Method of Working:
I remember happily using oil pastels as a child (they were better than those insipid wax crayons that were then marketed as suitable for children). There is a physicality about them, you can build up a proper layer of quite intense colour, and the whites can be used for covering and correcting too.
Over the years when I thought I wanted to be a painter I tried various paint techniques, but realised eventually that it wasn’t for me really. Collage and printing using stencils were the intermediate step towards sculpture which turned out to be my ‘language’.
Many ideas for my sculptures stem from visual observations of compositions in paintings-not specific ones, but dipping into the art archive in my mind from years of wondering around museums and art galleries.
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