THE GRAMMAR OF SHAPES: TRACES
10 MARCH - 15 MAY 2026
LAURA MEDCALF
AMY - LEIGH BIRD
ELILY FINCH
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THE GRAMMAR OF SHAPES: TRACES
Forms rarely arrive fully defined. More often, we see them emerge gradually through contact and interaction between material and environment. Art has long offered a way of making visible the subtle structures that connect the physical world with the more elusive dimensions of experience. Within the wider framework of The Grammar of Shapes, Traces brings together three artists whose practices explore how form can emerge through these encounters.
For Laura Medcalf, painting takes place at the meeting point between land and open water. Working with soluble, light-sensitive crystals and gestural marks, she immerses her surfaces in rivers, lakes and seas. Sunlight, minerals, currents and weather become collaborators in the work. The resulting pieces do not depict landscape so much as hold its presence: traces of light, water and time suspended within the surface.
Amy-Leigh Bird begins with fragments gathered from the edges of rivers and coastlines: bones, seaweed, sponge and other overlooked remains shaped by tide and erosion. Through printmaking, photography and sculpture, these materials are given renewed attention. What might once have been dismissed as debris is reseen as structure, memory and form
In Emz Finch’s paintings, colour and sky open into spaces of reflection. Drawing on a lifelong attentiveness to trees and landscape, her works move between observation and emotion, where gesture and colour expand into atmospheric fields.
Across these practices, nature acts less as subject than as co-author. Water, weather, colour and time participate in the making of the work. Forms appear slowly, as traces of the forces moving through landscape, material and perception - Elisa Martinelli, director at ArtMoorHouse
LAURA MEDCALF
Contacts:
studio@laura-medcalf.com www.laura-medcalf.com IG: @laura_medcalf_studio
LAURA MEDCALF
Flow, 2018
English Channel, Jurassic Coast, United Kingdom
Mixed media on paper
125 x 56 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
LAURA MEDCALF
Once in a Lifetime, 2018 Snow, Jurassic Coast, United Kingdom
Mixed media on paper
120 x 56 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
LAURA MEDCALF
Splash of Joy, 2024
Mediterranean Sea, Ibiza, Spain
Mixed media on paper
56 x 42 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
LAURA MEDCALF
Splash of Joy, 2024
Mediterranean Sea, Ibiza, Spain
Mixed media on paper
56 x 42 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
LAURA MEDCALF
Layered Excitement, 2023
Andaman Sea, Phi Phi Island, Thailand
Mixed media on paper
68 x 65 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
Jurassic Fossils, 2025
English Channel, Jurassic Coast, United Kingdom
Mixed media on paper
70 x 56 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
LAURA MEDCALF
Path to Happiness, 2024 Danube River,Hungary
Mixed media on paper 123 x 5.5 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
LAURA MEDCALF
Zen Under the Sun &Planets Align, 2024 Lake Balaton, Hungary/ Adriatic Sea, Puglia
Mixed media on paper 123 x 5.5 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
LAURA MEDCALF
Sunrise, 2021
Tisza River, Hungary
Mixed media on paper
123 x 5.5 cm
Framed with pure wooden box and museum grade Tru Vue non-reflective glass
Clay Pipe Bowls, 2026
Clay-pipe bowls on board
100 x 100 cm
Meditative Moments, 2024 Charcoal on canvas 111 x 160 cm
From Behind Closed Eyes, 2026 Charcoal on canvas 111 x 160 cm
AMY-LEIGH BIRD
PHOTOPOL YMER ETCHING 250gsm ARCHES VELIN PAPER ED. 10
58 x 71.5 cm
Pilot Whale Skull, 2026
AMY-LEIGH BIRD
Baleen Fan, 2025
PHOTOPOL YMER ETCHING 250gsm ARCHES VELIN PAPER ED. 10
66 x 49 cm
Marine Fragments: Cape Aguas I, 2025
PHOTOPOL YMER ETCHING 250gsm ARCHES VELIN PAPER ED. 20
58 x 46 cm
Marine Fragments: Cape Aguas III, 2025 PHOTOPOL YMER ETCHING 250gsm ARCHES VELIN PAPER ED. 20
58 x 46 cm
AMY-LEIGH BIRD
Marine Fragments: Cape Aguas II, 2025
PHOTOPOL YMER ETCHING 250gsm ARCHES VELIN PAPER ED. 20
58 x 46 cm
EMILY FINCH
Contacts:
emily@emzfinchart.co.uk www.emzfinchart.co.uk IG: @emzfinchart
EMILY FINCH
Mornings on Zeals Knowle Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
EMILY FINCH
The Long Route home Oil on canvas 120 x 100 cm
EMILY FINCH
Looking back and moving on Oil on canvas
70 x 70 cm
EMILY FINCH
The way of it
Oil on canvas
70 x 70 cm
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Charlotte Roche and all Moor House’s building management team who since 2010 have been directly involved in the development of ArtMoorHouse thanks to their precious help and support for our Art Program
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