Painters of West Cornwall, a Group Exhibition in Central London

Featuring a alternative of Cornwall’s finest artists with art works apparent and calm throughout the UK and abroad.

Exhibition Running: 16th-21st November 2009
Private View 18th November 2009, 6pm-8.30pm, acquaintance arcade for details.

Painters of West Cornwall, Group Exhibition.
This exhibition is the countdown appearance for the ELEVEN AND A HALF art dealership and appearance contempo plan by artists carefully associated with West Cornwall: John Emanuel, Paul Lewin, John Piper, Michael Praed, Ken Symonds, Ges Wilson and Vincent Wilson. This accumulation of painters includes some of Cornwall’s finest artists, whose plan has been apparent and calm throughout the UK and abroad.

Their plan encompasses a ample spectrum of painting styles, from abstract abstracts and nudes, to both semi-abstract and representational landscapes. All are heavily afflicted by the moors, mines, cliffs and coves that characterise Penwith, as able-bodied as by the bequest larboard by the Newlyn and St Ives art communities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

John Emanuel
John Emanuel was complete in Bury, Lancashire in 1930 and confused to Cornwall in 1964. His plan has a strong, connected appearance - a alternating affair is the figure, generally set in a landscape. The contours of the amount amalgamate with those of the land. Blocks of a individual colour advance to the simplified but stylised landscapes that characterize John's paintings. John began painting in the aboriginal 1960s and had his aboriginal abandoned exhibition in 1975. He was commissioned by Tate St Ives to accomplish an carving for the arcade aperture in 1993. John is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

Paul Lewin
Paul Lewin was complete in Manchester in 1967. He has become acclaimed for his representational angle of Cornish headlands, down abrupt granite rock-faces to the abolition after-effects below. His adeptness to abduction the brief aftereffect of ablaze on baptize is abundant admired and his paintings accurately back the acute acclimate altitude of the Atlantic coast. Paul has had abandoned shows above the country and as far afield as Boston, USA.

John Piper
John Piper was complete in Salisbury in 1946 and confused to Cornwall while still at school. Strongly afflicted by the countryside of West Cornwall, John is able-bodied accepted for his paintings of the moors, carns, headlands and cliffs that characterise this landscape. He applies acrylic in several layers, generally with acutely categorical curve acceptance allegory colours to appearance through. Looming skies or ample expanses of acreage actualize a dramatic, generally abrupt effect. His paintings accept been apparent above Europe and North America and are broadly collected. John is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

Michael Praed
Michael Praed was complete in Cornwall in 1941 and advised art locally, at the Penzance and Falmouth Schools of Art. His paintings of the Cornish coastline, ports and fishing boats accept a characteristic claimed appearance and are instantly recognisable. The strong, abreast vertical curve generally that generally affect the plan arm-twist those that are all-knowing in the granite cliffs and harbours of Penwith. Michael has captivated abandoned shows in London and above continental Europe. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists and a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

Ken Symonds
Ken Symonds advised art in London in the 1950s and travelled widely, adventure cartoon commissions in Africa afore affective to Cornwall in 1960. Coastal scenes, lighthouses, cliffs, moors, hamlets and tin mines generally affection in Ken’s plan but it is the ablaze and accentuation that ascertain his style. In accession to his landscapes, Ken is aswell a able-bodied accepted painter of nudes. Ken has corrective and apparent above the UK, Europe, America, Africa and Asia. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists, a above Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists and was arrive to become a affiliate of the Pastel Society in 1990.

Ges Wilson
Ges Wilson advised at Loughborough and Exeter Colleges of Art afore affective to Cornwall in the mid-1980s to advise painting at a Penzance school. Ges paints semi-abstract landscapes, aggressive by the bank scenes of Penwith. However, it is for her allegorical works that she is conceivably best known. These appear from activity drawings, simplified so as to call an acquaintance or anamnesis rather than a abundant ascertainment of the accountable matter. Ges has apparent broadly in the West Country and added afield. She has captivated 'Artist in Residence' positions in studios in the UK and France. Ges is a affiliate of the St Ives Society of Artists and a Professional Freelance Artist for Tate St Ives.


Vincent Wilson
Vincent Wilson was complete in Mold, arctic Wales, and advised painting and printmaking at Chester and Liverpool Schools of Art. His plan was aboriginal apparent in 1954. Vincent's plan captures the atmosphere and artlessness of the Cornish landscape, decidedly the moorland. His paintings abide of layers of broken bits of paper, abiding and re-arranged until the agreement is complete. Vincent has apparent his plan widely, including at the Royal Academy. He is a affiliate of the Penwith Society of Artists, the Royal Cambrian Academy and was adopted to the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 1995.

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The Exhibition will be captivated at: The Colomb Art Gallery, 52a George Street, Marylebone, London. W1U 7EA. 020 7487 5118. www.colombart.co.uk

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