Exhibition News
- and creative projects between shows -
- 150th
Ipswich Art Society
Exhibition -
- At St Clements Church, Ipswich -
Over 250 works of paintings, prints, ceramics and sculptures on display celebrating 150 years of the Ipswich Art Society. Showing at St Clement's church Art Centre. On until Saturday 15th June. I felt privileged to have had a couple of my construct artworks accepted for this exhibition.
The way the show curation was cleverly laid out, in that my pieces were hung adjacent to each other (in the nave), hung upon the original hooks that the hymn boards would have been when operational. Which fitted with my theme of Church Reformation (not by man) but the elements.
Here was the exhibition and my pieces chosen for the show.
- New Year / New Studio - USB Studio Loft 2024
St thomas Church, Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk
A lesson for me in giving and receiving - I have been gifted the opportunity to have my new studio in the loft space of the St Thomas Church Tower - The perfect location to make and show my construct artworks. I have only recently acquired the space and look forward to producing my future works from here. In return I will give back with public displays of mindful art, (above in the studio space) and below in the church communal area.
more artfilms in USB Cinema
- old Years / old Studio 2010 / 2023 -
USB Gallery Studio, Stoke Street, Ipswich, Suffolk
- decemeber’s Hand Made challenge -
St thomas Church, Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk
- Sacred Geometry Star Light -
Sacred geometry is essentially the study of the spiritual meaning of various shapes. It can be applied to the forms, numbers and patterns seen throughout the natural world. Simply put, this is the principle that all of nature’s structures are governed by a set of geometric patterns and mathematical ratios. Found in anything from plants and trees to stars and the galaxy, the intrinsic order of the universe that unites all forms of life.
In geometry a tetrahedron (also know as a triangular pyramid) is a polyhedron composed of four equal triangular faces, six straight edges and four vortex corners, the tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ordinary convex polyhedra. The shape created here is the star tetrahedron or ‘Merkaba’
a powerful symbol in sacred geometry also know as the vehicle of light. This important symbol is constructed of two tetrahedrons, interconnected through their planes. Historically, it is understood to permeate all dimensions and multiverse.
early vision / working it out
- November’s Hand Made challenge -
St thomas Church, Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk
- Indian hand made Paper -
Origami Angels
early vision / working it out
- christmas fair -
(and hand made display boards)
St thomas Church, Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk -
- When : 25th november -
- series two - UNSEENBEAUTY-Arts
curiosity flipbooks
one mindful minute …
Below are a selection of the Images captured for each of our UNSEENEBAUTY - Arts Curiosity Flipbooks.
Looking at the 8 primary elements (in USB’s view) that create a balance upon our beautiful Planet Earth.
- 50th Anniversary Celebrations -
- hand made Stain Glass card -
St thomas Church, Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk -
- When : 1st October -
- 85th Anniversary Celebrations -
(with Inner Space explorations)
St thomas Church, Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk -
- When : 23rd September - 21st October -
Exploring Flint Stone on the walls of St Thomas Church
With the Launch of a ‘Brand New’ Hand Made product for 2023 / 24. The UNSEENBEAUTY - Arts Curiosity Flipbook (discovering amazing natural colour) in 16 Photos.
more artfilms in USB Cinema
- ‘Friends of Woolverstone’ Art Show 2023 -
- When : 16th - 17th September -
They wanted a pic of me!, A detail from one of my drawings and A short Artfilm.
Description for the show catalogue
Martin lives, works and (mainly) walks in Suffolk, but wherever his feet can take him, he enjoys nothing more than going off to explore the landscape, to see what his natural curiosity ‘for what is out there’ can unearth.
The works on display explore the mediums of photography, drawing and constructs (making things from ‘found objects’). A way for him to explore museum quality ideas from history’s art pioneers (that he loves); born from an appreciation and feeling for Impressionism, Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism authority figures (The Painters epoch). To evoke these same emotions from the everyday landscapes that surround us.
‘Because Art Is Always A Journey In The Making’
As a moto, this has various meanings for Martin as an artist, from the processes that he takes himself through to create his art with a human expression, for a human experience. To observe our everyday reality and to create a journey which forms a moment of clarity; as a response to ‘the experience’, which hits emotionally with the inside of us. Which can affect the soul by using everyday things that have a history to tell.
As an environmental artist, Martin chose over a decade ago to make walking the primary mode of transportation to produce his art, (before then travelling, flying to Europe and other continents). The art he makes, comes about organically in the order that it is made, usually in a series of works which explore a theme of unseen beauty, so that became the name of his art site and where the curious journey into Weather Impaction and Human Interaction are observed.
Instagram: @mcusb2010
Suffolk Landscape Works Influenced by
abstract painters, created by nature
+ weather impacted buildings
- Shotley Pier Art and Craft Summer Show -
- When : 17th - 18th June -
I have been preparing some of my unexhibited artworks for the coming art show at St Mary's Church, Shotley. See Below:
Suffolk Landscape 6
Suffolk Landscape 5
Suffolk Landscape 10
the artworks on Show
Salvation Home
Art on The Stand
Reformation church 4
Art on The Stand
Salvation Still Water
Art on The Stand
Reformation church 11
Art on The Stand
Suffolk Landscape 1
Art on The Stand
Mounted Prints and Drawings
The Venue - St Mary’s - Shotley
- ‘SUFFOLK SHEEP’ FOR THE SUFFOLK SHOW 2023 -
- FOR THE DIOCESE OF ST EDMUNDSBURY AND IPSWICH - tENT 602
- TRINITY PARK, Felixstowe Road, Ipswich IP3 8UH / May 31st - June 1st -
- CREATIVE COMMUNITY ACTIVITY -
If you have any young creatives in the family - visit our tent and help decorate these sheep - Its bound to get messy!!!
- I THINK THEY ENJOYED THERE VISIT TO THE SUFFOLK SHOW -
- ‘SUFFOLK SHEEP’ FOR THE SUFFOLK SHOW 2023 -
- to see ‘how they are made’ - scroll down a little further -
COMMUNITY PROJECT - 4 weeks in May
Week One: Cardboard Concept to Plywood Template
Week Two: Cutting and Sanding
Week Three: Perfecting and Painting
Week Four: Details and Delivery
- COMMISSIONS FOR SHEEP -
So - if you fancy one or two For your garden - Click Here
- Or See Below - The Worlds Smallest Sales Pitch ! - Good Things Come From Small Packages -
- NOW SOMETHING DIFFERENT -
- SOMETIMES I AM ASKED TO PUT ON MY DESIGNERS HAT AGAIN -
- My creative life is my full time job / Graphic design has become the hobby -
during february and March, I was tasked with coming up with some umbrella branding for the below art show -
and I am up for more! so if anyone has any interesting projects coming up in 2023 / 2024 - get in touch
- TRANSITIONS FINE ART ALUMNI EXHIBITION 2007 / 22 -
- UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK / WATERFRONT BUILDING FOYER / 19 NEPTUNE QUAY / IP4 1QJ -
- Click Above to Our Dedicated Page -
Online Art Brochure + Poster + Invites + Social Media Bits + Links to Insta Pages + Alumni Art films + ‘Love Asylum’ Music Videos
Exhibition News 2022 …
- hand made Things -
- Click Above to see the ‘Construct Projects’ made to investigate ideas that explore Weather Impaction and Human Interaction upon the Environment around us - discover beauty in the narrative -
- Church Night Light -
FRONT SIDE ASPECT
From the front the church always has an open door (viewable from the right side). The base is filled with tomb stones and mushrooms.
LEFT SIDE ASPECT
From the left side, the light of faith inside the church is seen through the candel lights reflection through the symbol o The Cross.
BACK SIDE ASPECT
From the back notice detail along the roof, noticing the building construction over periods of time, shown usning different windows.
RIGHT SIDE ASPECT
From the right side viewpoint, notice the bell in the far tower, the roof detail, another open door and rusty old drain from the roof structure.
This latest commission piece completed just before Christmas, more to come in 2023.
The base is separate from the church building (the detail) in the base represent flowers, mushrooms and tomb stones which often buff up against the foundation of the church.
- Mini Exhibition - 26th November - 17th December -
Since November 2021, I have found it very rewarding to volunteer for community activities at St. Thomas’s church; shown here: Top Up Shop on a Friday from 12 til 1 (£2 a bag of supplies). But also do warm space.
The space within church has become such a wonderful place to show my way of working with nature as a contemporary artist in our digital art world. Allowing a dialog with ordinary people (outside of a gallery).
St. Thomas’s The Apostle and Martyr /
Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk UK -
COMMERCIAL ART PRACTICE
Landscape Photography in an Impressionistic style
Plein Air Drawings (Pen and Ink) with minimalistic overtone
Macro Photography that sits well in abstract expressionism
And something hand made; candle holders to light a light for a life.
2022 CONSTRUCT ARTWORKS
These constructs all use materials deemed useless and found while walking out and about, but they depict my imagined art world. Based on ideas that come to me, through the reading of verse in scripture, that look towards a church being the first place to educate our direct ancestors.
To explore what captures my eye in these places, in search of the art I need to create to feel alive and present in nature. Capturing landscapes from impressionistic, minimalistic and abstract expressionist viewpoints.
Ideas behind my Construct works follow my day to day, week to week and month to month conversations with my topics, checking in on what i’m thinking. Then walking the landscapes which talk to my senses as an artist.
I have been on a long journey of discovery: looking firstly at the idea of the self and the origination of an idea between 2000 - 2010. I then naturally progressed to informing myself of the base logic behind understanding the world according to science. Which has lead ‘ourkind’, to knowing and naming that world that exists around us and now I am in search of knowing my spiritual self so that the art I create passes through me as soulful expressions.
- Light a Light for a life - Candle Holder -
Light a Light at Christmas time to Remember those that left Too Soon.
This series of works are currently all
Sold Out but more to come in 2023.
the Making Of : Light a Light for a life - Candle Holder -
Exhibition News 2021 …
- ANGEL BOMBING -
- At St. Thomas the apostle and Martyr -
- To Spread Joy, Hope and Happiness for 2022 -
- Art Residency November 2021 -
Stoke Bridge Workshops
Location: 9 Stoke Street, Ipswich IP28BX
Date: Mondays + Wedsnesdays
between 8th - 29th Nov
Exhibition details:
Celebrate the year 2020 as a time the Earth stood still!. Allowing us the time and space for personal growth, understanding and experience of our world. UNSEENBEAUTY - The Art of Evolution evolved further and become UNSEENBEAUTY-Arts or USB-Arts for short!. Extending out our hands to the audience in new found ways.
The show will consist of 70 artworks with a mixture of photgraphy works and new construct works as well as 30 min Well-Being Sessions.
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behind the vision / a story of our environment
It took a week to get over 70 artworks on the walls of the Five Workshop Rooms availble, to give you a hint at what to expect here are a few quick shots below.
Out Of The Window
The Reflections Room : The Meaning Of / Inner Spaces
The Weather Impaction Room, continued : also liking how the window in the door created another artwork through to the next room (See right).
The Human Interaction Room : Framed Book Pages showing Urban Abstractions and Mounted Photo Prints detailing how mankind has decorated the landscape.
Each of the rooms has been given a different narrative to the story which is UNSEENBEAUTY - Arts. To discover the hidden interconnected relationships.
The Nature Room : Window To A World
The Weather Impaction Room : Contructs made from upcycled found objects.
Layers Of Time Room : A space for contemplation for the history of an object, observing the impact of the weather conditions upon the surface and the colour’s left behind.
UNSEENBEAUTY-Arts Contemporary Fine Art Landscape Photography
Greeting Cards / Prints / Framed Book Pages / Acrylic Prints and Contructs.
Late Night Opening
I would like to thank the fantastic nine who came to the show (I try with social media but I don’t have much reach) well I am only 5ft 8 :)
The premiere of my residency art film - was probably a bit too loud - I keep forgetting my hearing is not as good as yours - hence I like rythmic noise!.
Residency Work: Art Film and Book
The premise of my art residency at Stoke Bridge Workshops was during this time; to investigate and observe the weather imapaction and human interaction upon the surface of the immediate landscape around me. So within a few steps I found the images which make up this 3 min movie.
Above is the art film I produced along with an immerssive soundtrack to make each day a world of play to express what I want to say.
The Images can also be found in an online publication to be able to apreciate the subtle impacts we have upon the world around us . To celebrate colour and texture in the everyday world around us; with an underlining message of hope.
WE aLSO DID OUR FIRST FESTIVAL !!!
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Kev’s Summer Fest 2021.
Location: Woodlands Farm, Park Road, East Bergholt CO7 6XT
Dates: Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September Opening 10am - 4pm.
Free to attend - their will be live music, locally prouduced ice cream and food, drink and all the ammenities you’d expect on site - aswell as a large variety of local makers from Suffolk, Essex and further afield (in this field!). It promises to be a fantastic family day out - dogs also welcome!.
Stalls with: stain glass, ceramics, candles, cakes, firepits, lamps and lighting, art, giftware, jewellery, creative metalwork, garden curiosities, clothing, homewares, plants and flowers, sheepskin, leatherware, bakery, kids clothes and toys ... oh and and icecream and hopefully plenty of local refreshments to choose from.
Martin will be their with his - UNSEENBEAUTY-Arts / Mobile Art Gallery -
Have you ever been standing in the middle of a field - thinking this would be a great spot to put on an exhibition. ‘Well I have!’ - and the chance to do just that has come along . While this festival has become locally known by those in the know, it is also gaining wider recognition - so come along and see for yourself what everyone has been talking about.
I will be their with my multi sensory tent and over 50 artworks that follow the UNSEENBEAUTY - Arts philiosophy - plus if you have explored this website and found the Hidden Section for our Members Area (and wondered whats on the other side) - this is a perfect chance to come and explore that side further and travel to the unseen parts of UNSEENBEAUTY - Arts and find out what you’ve been missing - meditation movies, online books, music, well-being resources - to take you beyond the wall.
previously Showed Here 2021 ...
Right Place - Right Time at DanceEast, with Suffolk Pride celebrate LGBTQ+ Freedom.
The work that I produce looks towards nature and how this has been an inspration to the artist through millennia - to inspire the FEELING of well-being not only an image.
Right Place - Right Time for me is found within the moment - that feeling of being alive and connected to the world around us through the marvelous things we can see and experience. The natural world occurs whether we notice it or not.
My piece for this show can have many meanings and connotations, and fall at any time in one's life, be you young or old; freedom is how you can live your life being yourself. It could also mean: being lucky enough to be standing in the right place and right time to capture this image seen here. There is deep poetic familiarity in
the simplest of motivations.
Freedom is also a thing we once dreamt of; while too often succumbing to the
desires of others. Today is the best time for people old or young in our community
to be proud of the life they lead. Freedom is something granted and now is the
time to be proud to be a beautiful and natural part of the Suffolk countryside.
USB Views for 2021 and beyond …
‘bED tIME bOOKS’
help you unwind!
But also to inform you - and your family
about what lays just below the surface
our growing library of online publications currently has over
20 books to explore!
so we can help each other to carry on!
our videos are here to help soothe
We have Two Main groups of USB Movies in our Supporting Members Area.
Which are defined by the landscapes seen; in Earth’s Natural Weather Cycle to Inspire Your Calm or the Man Made world built around us to Influence Your Positive Mental Energy.
With a Sound Track you can also take On The Move with you, or you can view the Silent Movie version and add the sound track of your own life; Hit Play and absorb USB Natural Energy.
Silent Movies
Art Films which are a peaceful distraction from the chaotic world - that introduce a feeling of tranquillity at the end of a stress fuelled work day.
Motivational Movies
Art Films accompanied by a fusion of music and beats - a deep immersive quality to Inspire Neuron Activity in the brain to uplift the mind.
to help ease you from A stress day…
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING.
“Superb exhibition -
very inspirational, thank you .”
— sarah s. —
“Really getting to reality”
— malcolm m. —
“I enjoyed the art work
and friendly atmosphere”
— allison F. —
first show after Lockdown 2021 ...
bEYOND THE SURFACE
HARWICH FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 2021
Location: Room 6 , Gallery
Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre,
Dovercourt, Suffolk SatNav: CO12 4AJ
Date: 3rd - 29th July, 2021
Exhibition details:
A GROUP of artists have created an interactive exhibition ready to show off to people at this year’s Harwich Festival of the Arts.
The Aletheia Collective, who live and work in Suffolk and Essex, began collaborating in preparation for the festival last year before it was cancelled.
They continued to collaborate on several projects and will now show off their work which they hope will be “thought-provoking and stimulating”.
The free to enter festival has now been given the green light and will run from Saturday, July 3rd (with an opening where all artists will be present - Room 6) and runs until Thursday, July 29 at the Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre at The Gallery, Main Road, Dovercourt.
Larain Briggs reflects on symbols and meaning, Jamie Limond delves into existentialism and Ian Moss looks for Traces’ - left behind by humanity upon our environments. While Adam Riches investigates the human condition in his evocative portraits and Marin Carter explores the vulnerability of consciouness through the exploration of colour, texture and natural found composition upon everyday things around us.
Adam Riches
“ Adam Riches investigates the human condition in his evocative portraits. ”
Ian Moss
“ Ian Moss explores ‘Traces’ - left behind
by humanity upon our environments. ”
Larain Briggs
“ Larain Briggs reflects on
symbols and meaning. ”
Martin Carter
“ Martin Carter explores the vulnerability
of consciouness through exploration. ”
Jamie Limond
“ Jamie Limond delves
into existentialism. ”
- Art Bio / Catalogue -
“ Colour, Texture and Natural found Composition upon everyday things. ”
The title of the exhibition ‘Beyond the Surface’ explores one aspect of Heidegger's philosophy, the fleeting unveiling of an inner truth or essence, revealed under exceptional circumstances. The exhibition also considers a more general concept of
THESE ARTWORKS BELOW BY MARTIN ARE HIS RESPONSE
ALETHEIA / INNER SPACE 1 tO 3
transience or impermanence. This, however, is only the artist's inspiration, the collective hopes that the viewers will bring their own interpretations which are
far more important.
SPECIAL EDITION PRINTS TO CELEBRATE WEBSITE LAUNCH
ALETHEIA / INNER SPACE 4 tO 6
lockdown ideas with 2020 vision …
mORE eXHIBITION nEWS / hISTORY oF SHOWS
gIVING pOSITIVE mENTAL hEALTH -
a pHYSICAL pRESENCE iN tHE rOOM.
Our logo is a symbol of our knowledge and understanding
of the way the world works, reflecting the colour spectrum
upon the things we see all around us in the every day.
But!!! - the colours are the wrong way around? - While that is true this is a symbol in itself - that we see things in reflection - odd right!