This first major exhibition of works by Wivenhoe-based sculptor Charlotte Bernays.

Charlotte is an artist in perpetual motion. Moving fluidly between two and three dimensions, across media and materials, her practice mirrors its central subject: the endless cycle of transformation that governs the natural world.

Charlotte approaches making as an act of discovery. As she puts it: "I see the object as an event rather than a thing - a mixture of matter or anti-matter and time and movement. Thus the making process leads and the object follows and remains as evidence of activity."

Her works are concerned with form in motion and motion within form — with mass and energy, and the ceaseless drama of disintegration and reconfiguration playing out from the microscopic to the cosmic.

Deeply concerned about the environment, her work is not merely aesthetic contemplation but a response to nature's fragility, and a call to attend to the forces that sustain life.

Exhibition Opening Event: Saturday 9 May 12-3pm. All Welcome

About Charlotte Bernays

Colchester and Wivenhoe artist, Charlotte Bernays, has been working predominantly in sculpture for 50 years. She holds a BA (Hons) in 3D Design in Bristol and has taught sculpture, printmaking, drawing, painting and ceramics at all levels, from young children to postgraduate. She worked for Christine Edzard of Sands Films across many years, making costumes and props for the film and ballet versions of the Tales of Beatrix Potter (Covent Garden), The Nutcracker (3D), and the BBC series Scarlet & Black. She also worked for Godfrey Design Group making sculptural models. Charlotte has exhibited at a range of venues including Keats House, for the bi-centenary celebrations of Keats' birth; and with The British Haiku Society at the Barbican Library Gallery in London. Most recently, Charlotte has displayed her sculptures, installations and drawings in a solo show at The Sentinel Gallery. She has also illustrated books by David Cobb and Martin Newell.

This exhibition is kindly supported by the Henry Moore Foundation and Colchester City Council.