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.

Talk in Bristol

As part of the preview on Saturday 13th April, the three artists involved in The Cornish Landscape exhibition are going to be doing short talks about their work.  I'm on at 2pm.

Cow Parsley at Botallack (Oil on linen 24 x 26)

I'm going to be talking about why the Cornish landscape appeals so strongly to a Scottish painter, just as it did to painters such as Peter Lanyon and sculptors such as Barbara Hepworth.

If you're in the area, you're very welcome to come along, see the show and hear the artists!

 

Lime Tree Gallery website 

Catalogues are here!

Yes, my delivery of The Cornish Landscape catalogues has just made it through the snow!  It's always an exciting moment when you see the catalogues for a show for the first time.

I think they look great, so if you'd like one, just drop a line with your postal address to 

judith at jibridgland.com

and I'll get one sent off to you.

In the meantime...

HAPPY EASTER! 

 Young lambs brave the fierce winter weather at Hall Hill Farm, Lanchester: The Northern Echo

Cornish Landscape Catalogues

The catalogues for April's The Cornish Landscape exhibition are just being finalised.

Here's a quick look at the front cover, which shows my painting of Land's End.

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.