'Water, Water' - Paintings off to Bristol

That's a consignment of work off to Bristol for a show entitled 'Water Water' at the Lime Tree Gallery.

As the name suggests, it's a water-themed show, which gives great scope for all manner of rivers, streams, seas and oceans - one of my favourite subjects!

Here's a couple of little drawings in mixed media - pastel, acrylic and charcoal on handmade paper, very textural - that are going to be in the show.  It's good to show something a little different now and again.  

They're both of the boats at the little harbour at Penberth Cove down on the south coast of Cornwall.  It's a beautiful little harbour, very secluded and peaceful, with a really old-fashioned timeless feel about it.

Boats and Creels, Penberth Cove (10 x 10)

Rowing Boat at Penberth Cove (10 x 10)

The exhibition opens with a champagne preview on Thursday 12th September, 6 - 8.30pm. So if you're in the Bristol area and would like to go along and see them, please feel free as you'd be very welcome!   

In the meantime, here's a link to the paintings in the show HERE.

If you'd like a full-colour catalogue and an invite to the show, then please contact the gallery HERE.

The Cornish Landscape Moves to Suffolk

My Cornish Landscape show, with Euan McGregor and Peter Wileman, ends today in Bristol.  However, it is now going to transfer to Suffolk at the beginning of June.

So if you didn't get a chance to see it on the west coast, then can maybe catch this popular show at Long Melford over the summer.

The show opens on Saturday 8th June.  Brochures will be available, so if you'd like one and an invite, then please contact the Lime Tree Gallery HERE.

Botallack, 23 x 23 (mixed media on paper)

Thank you!

A very big thank you to everyone who came along to The Cornish Landscape preview on Saturday.  There was an amazing turnout despite the terrible rainy weather in Bristol that day, and it was also great to meet with the other artists, Euan McGregor and Peter Wileman.

Here's a few pictures of the show...

The Lime Tree Gallery

My paintings (l-r) - Sea Thrift at Carn Gloose, Cape Cornwall, Sennen Cove and Portheras Cove

 

Lower Left - Calm Sea at Dawn, St Ives

Top - Setting Sun, Lanyon Quoit

Lower Right - Weather Coming in over Little Trevalagan

 

The artist Euan McGregor (second from left) with his paintings

 

Gallery Director Sue Dean with the mini Cornish pasties.

Behind is my painting Land's End

 

Signing a purchase!

 If you missed the preview, then the show continues until 14th May.

Cornish Paintings off to Bristol

My paintings for The Cornish Landscape exhibition have been all parcelled up and are setting off on their journey to the Lime Tree Gallery in Bristol.

 

Beady-Eyed Gull, St Ives (Acrylic, 5 x 7)

It's always good to see a huge pile of paintings finally set off on its journey to the show.  There's not many jobs when you have such a definitive end to a phase of work and a tangible, physical result.

The next part of the process will be next month when I see them hung in the exhibition in the gallery.  Somehow they take on whole new feel when you see them in the show - they're all big and grown up, and they're not the same as when they were just in the studio.  

Of course, they'll be alongside the wonderful new work from Euan McGregor and Peter Wileman, so all the paintings will be working in a whole new way with the others as a group.

Can't wait!

You can view the whole show HERE.

Calm Sea at Dawn, St Ives (Oil on linen, 24 x 26)

Paintings of Cornwall

I'm just finishing preparations for a show next month of paintings and drawings of Cornwall.

It's a very exciting show with two other artists, Euan McGregor and Peter Wileman, at the Lime Tree Gallery in Bristol, called The Cornish Landscape.

I travelled round Cornwall last summer, and the result is a series of oil paintings, drawings and postcard sketches of the county.

I love Cornwall, and I wanted to get a sense of a place that's very much on the edge of things, surrounded by the sea. It's also a landscape that has been shaped by the people that have lived there before, whether it is ancient Celtic monuments, the ruins of the tin-mines, or a place where artists such as Peter Lanyon or Barbara Hepworth have been and interpreted in their work.

Portheras Cove, (Oil on linen, 32 x 32)

 

This is a painting called Portheras Cove.  You have to walk a long way on a path that goes up and down the cliff to get there, so it's not easy.  It's a beautiful beach (although there are dire warnings not to walk in bare feet because there is metal from shipwrecks under the sand!).  

 

 

I wanted to do a series of paintings of places that are secret and discovered, coves that are like the places that you remember from childhood - somewhere special and exciting with just the sand and the sea, full of the possibilities of adventure.

 

The show opens with a preview on Saturday 13th April.