PAST EXHIBITION:
COAST
- THREE PAINTERS EXPLORE DIFFERENT COASTLINES
Throughout this spring and summer, three painters have been exploring different coastlines to make work for this exhibition. Each artist’s interpretation of their chosen coastline is highly individual and reflects their personal interest and style.
Sarah Adams works in Padstow and regularly explores the local coastline and the gardens that exist nearby. She is often found roaming the Cornwall cliff tops and scrambling around the rocks or risking wet feet from the advancing tide, to capture exactly the view she wants. She likes the contrast of painting colourful coastal gardens and then working with the rugged, shadow-filled rock forms that pepper the north Cornish coast.
Christopher Johnson travelled back to his native Africa to paint his series of work. Born in Zimbabwe, he spent eight months in South Africa working along The Cape, the south west corner of Africa. Many hours were spent on the beach or working out of the back of his hired van which became his portable studio. Works on paper were made on the spot and are used to inform his canvases which are completed back in his Gloucestershire studio.
David Ralph Simpson lives on the north coast of Devon close to the Cornwall border. His work is inspired by the particularly rugged and dramatic coastline around Hartland Point and the local bays and harbours. This is an area he knows well as it is where he body boards and walks regularly. He draws constantly and then uses those notes to make paintings in his new studio which has been set up in the old forge in Hartland Point.