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BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
William Blake is a unique figure in British art: painter, printmaker, illustrator, poet, and radical thinker. In 1820 the artist John Linnell secured a commission for Blake to illustrate Robert Thornton’s Pastorals of Virgil. The images were made as wood engravings and the results, became a critical influence on the visionary landscapes of Samuel Palmer who was entranced by the ‘visions of little dells, and nooks, and corners of paradise’.
BREWSTER , Martyn (b.1952)
Martyn Brewster’s abstract paintings are strongly linked to the English landscape tradition. His paintings and drawings explore the coastal light of the south coast of Dorset where he lives and works. In his recent work, Brewster often uses a softer palette and square forms which, although reminiscent of boats or islands, deserve to be viewed in less representational terms. Brewster has had retrospective exhibitions at the Russell– Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, 1997; the Royal West of England Academy, 2001; and the Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole, 2003, amongst others. He has won numerous awards and has work in private, public and corporate collections worldwide. Public collections include the Victoria u0026#038; Albert Museum, British Museum, Russell–Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Arts Institute at Bournemouth and Bournemouth University. “My primary concern has always been with painting. I have never ceased to be fascinated and enthralled by the tactile and evocative qualities of paint, oil paint especially. Early on, I developed a particular interest in colour and abstraction which is the key to my work, coupled with a lyrical and poetic response to both Nature and the medium. I have always loved the related activities of drawing and printmaking. The drawings…
COPLEY, John (1875 – 1950)
John Copley studied at the Manchester School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools, then spent ten years in Italy. He was primarily a printmaker of lithographs and etchings, publishing his first lithographs in 1909, and working increasingly in etching from 1925. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists and the New English Art Club. However his later, and finest etchings were rarely exhibited and after 1939 many were not even editioned. Copley’s work was overlooked for 35 years after his death in 1950, but has been the subject of a significant revival of interest more recently. An exhibition at Garton u0026#038; Cooke, London (1985) was followed by a one-man exhibition in 1990 at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and another mounted concurrently at Agnews, London. In 1998 The Fine Art Society, London also held a solo exhibition, accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue. The British Museum and the Victoria u0026#038; Albert Museum hold examples of his work.
COX, Morris (1931-1988)
DANNATT, George (1915 – 2009)
George Dannatt was an outstanding and inspirational figure in the story of the later St Ives School. He represented a rare breed of cultural polymath: musician, critic, practising artist, connoisseur and collector of modern art. He also belonged to a small group of patron collectors who practised what they preached. Dannatt produced a solid oeuvre of abstract painting inspired by, and in concert with, the St Ives Modernists whose work he so admired. Like London-based collectors John and Anne Christopherson and Ken Powell, George and Ann Dannatt systematically collected art one can summarise as three-quarters geometric and abstract, but with an oblique sensuality and associative landscape naturalism. Over many years Dannatt collected the work of, among others, John Wells, Terry Frost, Denis Mitchell, Alexander Mackenzie, Patrick Heron and Roy Conn. Many choice items from this second wave of Cornish Modernism have been donated to Pallant House in Chichester and a smaller group of works to Southampton Art Gallery, together with good examples of Dannatt’s own work.
DAVIES , Peter (b.1953)
Since starting to paint in 1981 my mainly plein aire landscapes have used a mechanical, rather than lyrical or painterly, approach. This probably puts my observational paint – by – numbers pictures at a creative and expressive disadvantage. But it does prove conducive to a structural or compositional kind of drawing over which are applied layers of oil paint to deliver idiosyncratic textural and atmospheric effects.
de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri (1864 -1901)
EDWARDS, Walter (1899-1977)
GIBBINGS, Robert (1889 – 1958)
GILL, Eric (1882-1940)
A wood engraver, sculptor, typographer, and draughtsman, Gill was born in Brighton. He studied in Chichester at the Theological College, and then at the Technical and Art School before moving to London and attending the Central School. Gill later lived in Sussex and around him sprung up an order of religious artists, influenced by his Roman Catholic views. Gill never completely abandoned the religious roots which inform his work. Eroticism also features as an important part of it, and Gill was not afraid to combine the two. He held several teaching jobs, including gilding at the Central School, and was an associate of the RA. In 1937 he was awarded an honorary associateship of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Gill died in 1940.
GODSILL, Vernon (b.1934)
Vernon Godsill was born in London in 1934. He studied at Ealing Art School (1956-62) and Putney School of Art (1973-1980). He exhibited in London and Surrey 1978-1985, one man exhibitions at Questors Theatre, Ealing , 1981, The Farrington Gallery, Holland Park, 1981 and The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, Contemporary Watercolours (1982-1987) at the Bankside Gallery London. His work is in public and private collections in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia.
JONES, Allen (b.1937)
JONES, David (1895 – 1974)
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and maker of inscriptions, David Jones was born in Blockley, Kent, the son of a Welsh printer. He studied with A.S. Heartsick at Camberwell School of Art between 1909 and 1915. He served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during WW1, being invalided home after action in France. The war, Welsh meh and landscape, his Roman Catholic faith, poetry and legend were some of the themes that threaded their way through Jones’ writings and art, his watercolours rich in layered imagery. He studied under Bernard Meninsky and Walter Bayes at Westminster School of Art, then joined Eric Gill’s Guild of St.Joseph and St.Dominic in Sussex. He was a member of SWE and the 7 u0026#038; 5 Society and was exhibited widely abroad. He became an accomplished engraver, working for the Golden Cockerel Press and illustrated Douglas Cleverdon’s 1929 edition of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ with ten superb copper engravings. He won many prizes and awards and was made a Companion of Honour in 1974. Fifty years of his celebrated book ‘The Anathema’ (1952) was marked by an exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea in 2002. The Tate Gallery and many other public collections…
HERMANN, Fritz (b.1910)
KEMPSTER, William (1914 -1976)
A painter, mural artist, printmaker and illustrator, William Kempster studied at the Wimbledon School of Art under Gerald Cooper (1937-39), then at the Royal College of Art (1939-42) where his teachers included Percy Jowett and Ernest Tristram. Kempster’s career included a great deal of exhibition work, and he undertook mural and poster commissions for, among others, the Central Office of Information, Miner Comes to Town Exhibition, Health of the People Exhibition, Post Office Exhibition and the Festival of Britain 1951, illustrating aspects of British life and work. He also contributed to numerous periodicals including Future, Lilliput, Leader, The Mirror and The Echo.
KLEIN, Synold (1920 – 1994)
LIDDELL, John (1924 – 2005)
LYNCH, Sammi
London based artist, Sammi Lynch creates work doused in earthy pastel smudges and silky-smooth textures, that are all about summoning a sense of place and memory. Favouring soft pastels and pencil drawing, combined with a striking use of colour, Sammi gives viewers an immersive window into her imagination. Growing up in the Northwest of England was formative to her style, she is inspired by nature and rolling landscapes which is reflected in her drawings, paintings, and ceramics. Another key theme lies in the people she surrounds herself with, finding comfort and inspiration in drawing those closest to her. Completed her BA Illustration u0026#038; Animation at Kingston University. Sammi is currently studying at The Drawing Year – a scholarship program at The Royal Drawing School.
MARINKOV, Sasa (b.1949)
My preferred method of making images is through relief printmaking. I like exploring this expressive language in a dialogue between positive and negative, representation and abstraction, control and accident. I use lino, birch plywood, lemon wood, Japanese and European papers and often hand burnish the prints. I search for subjects with a camera or draw and freeze a landscape in time, sometimes using nature symbolically or show a city in construction or destruction. I continue the journey in the making of the print. Teaching ideas, and a wide variety of skills, have been an important and absorbing part of my creative life.
MEDLEY, Robert (1905 – 1994)
MERCER, Joyce (1896 -1965)
MOORE, Gabrielle ( b.1949)
Gabrielle Moore was born in Worcestershire and educated in London. For 17 years she worked for architects in Barbados, New York, Toronto, Piano Rogers in Paris on the Pompidou Centre and Farrell u0026#038; Grimshaw in London. She then went on to study art at Byam Shaw, The Royal Academy Schools and City u0026#038; Guilds of London Art School where she subsequently taught Trompe L’oeil painting and life drawing for the next 15 years. Gabrielle works in a number of mediums but is primarily a painter and etcher. Gabrielle specialises in the tonal aquatint form of etchings and the majority of her prints are of this method. Aquatints are achieved by laying a resin dust on a clean blank metal plate, melting it to harden, make it adhere and act as resistant to acid. A stop out varnish is then used in a build up of steps to create the tonal image. The plate goes through a series of dips into acid to obtain a depth of “biting”. The resulting holes eventually hold the ink for the printing process.
PENDER, Tamsin (b.1965)
Tamsin Pender is a contemporary printmaker living and working in London. The daughter of Cornish artist Jack Pender (1918-1998), her practice explores all aspects of contemporary printmaking – most recently utilising thread. Tamsin completed post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 1990 and has since exhibited widely, including at the Tate Gallery St Ives, Walsall New Art Gallery and Beaconsfield, London. Recent projects include participatory art and design pieces, exhibited at the Vu0026#038;A Museum of Childhood, The Saison Poetry Library and the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre.
ROBINSON , Geoffrey (b.1945)
Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art in the 1960’s, before a career in advertising and music. Since the 1990’s he began a full time painting career and his interest in abstraction, narrative and still life has led him to produce a body of work inspired by British artists from the St Ives School. He has established a personal style of lyrical abstraction and his work has been widely exhibited and is in numerous private and public collections. In 2004 ITV broadcast a documentary about him and his work under the title ‘Geoffrey Robinson in The Frame’ for Meridian television.
SUTHERLAND, Graham (1903-1980)
Graham Sutherland’s fascination with landscapes evolved over his career, from his idyllic early prints to the Surrealist paintings for which he became known. Sutherland studied printmaking at Goldsmiths School of Art, where he produced pastoral etchings and engravings influenced by the Romantic painter Samuel Palmer. Taking up painting in the 1930s, he drew inspiration from the rocky landscapes and organic forms of the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales and created foreboding landscape paintings that he exhibited in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Although nature was his primary subject, he later incorporated abstracted figures into his work. Deeply religious, Sutherland painted a highly acclaimed crucifixion for St. Matthew’s Church in Northampton and designed a tapestry of Jesus Christ for Coventry Cathedral. His work was presented at the 1952 Venice Biennale and 1955 São Paulo Bienal. In the 1950s he also painted several commissioned portraits, including a painting of Winston Churchill that the Prime Minister famously detested.
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DANNATT, George (1915 – 2009)
George Dannatt was an outstanding and inspirational figure in the story of the later St Ives School. He represented a rare breed of cultural polymath: musician, critic, practising artist, connoisseur and collector of modern art. He also belonged to a small group of patron collectors who practised what they preached. Dannatt produced a solid oeuvre of abstract painting inspired by, and in concert with, the St Ives Modernists whose work he so admired. Like London-based collectors John and Anne Christopherson and Ken Powell, George and Ann Dannatt systematically collected art one can summarise as three-quarters geometric and abstract, but with an oblique sensuality and associative landscape naturalism. Over many years Dannatt collected the work of, among others, John Wells, Terry Frost, Denis Mitchell, Alexander Mackenzie, Patrick Heron and Roy Conn. Many choice items from this second wave of Cornish Modernism have been donated to Pallant House in Chichester and a smaller group of works to Southampton Art Gallery, together with good examples of Dannatt’s own work.
ROBINSON , Geoffrey (b.1945)
Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art in the 1960’s, before a career in advertising and music. Since the 1990’s he began a full time painting career and his interest in abstraction, narrative and still life has led him to produce a body of work inspired by British artists from the St Ives School. He has established a personal style of lyrical abstraction and his work has been widely exhibited and is in numerous private and public collections. In 2004 ITV broadcast a documentary about him and his work under the title ‘Geoffrey Robinson in The Frame’ for Meridian television. .
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March 29, 2021
WINTER STILL LIFE
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