It's here : Restless Coast now open from 1 July
Join us and several of the artists in the gallery on 24th July 1pm.
Vanessa Gardiner / Godrevy Point 49/ 53 x117cm / Acrylic on plywood £4,200 SOLD
This is a group show with leading contemporary artists inspired by the noisy sea and changing restless coast, with a focus on the outer contours of the West and East coasts of the UK. Artists : Rachel Arif AMAFA, Perienne Christian, Mari French, Vanessa Gardiner, Philip Lyons, David Mankin, Caroline Poole, Celia Read and Erin Ward.
See below for selective catalogue of work. Complete works available to view in the Gallery or contact us team@galleryeast.co.uk.
See below for selective catalogue of work. Complete works available to view in the Gallery or contact us team@galleryeast.co.uk.
Rachel Arif AMAFA is a landscape oil painter based in London, originally from Lancashire, whose work portrays the relationship between land, sea and the forces of nature, mirroring the way in which the land and weather shape emotions, hopes and aspirations. Rachel is a graduate of Manchester College of Art and exhibits regularly across the UK including the Mall Galleries in London alongside the Royal Society of British Artists.
Perienne Christian is a masters graduate and teacher at the Royal Drawing School. She lives and works in Suffolk and London. Her highly distinctive and collectable work looks at connections between landscape, including everyday medicinal weeds and their folklore, and the role of the feminine. Perienne exhibits in London and Suffolk and her work is in many private collections throughout the UK. Her work"Calling" featured in the 2019 RA Summer Show.
Mari French is recognised as one of East Anglian's most respected abstract painters. Mari lives and works in Norfolk, having grown up in Manchester close to the Pennine hills. The roots of her paintings lie in her deep-seated affinity with landscape and weather, capturing the elemental forces of the wild landscapes. Mari is a member of the Institute of East Anglian Artists (IEA) and her work has been selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries in London every year for the last 5 years. Her work is held in both national and international private collections.
Vanessa Gardiner is a landscape painter working and living in West Dorset who is often drawn to the Cornish and Irish Atlantic coasts. Vanessa says the process of creation which begins with detailed drawings is as important as the beauty of the coast line which she seeks to capture. Following a foundation course at Oxford Polytechnic Vanessa studied at Central School of Art and Design in London. Vanessa has had many solo exhibitions throughout the UK and her work has been included in the RA Summer Exhibition between 2013 and 2016 and 2019. Her work is in a number of public collections in the UK and Ireland including The British Academy in London and the Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, County Mayo Ireland.
Philip Lyons is a landscape painter living and working in Falmouth, Cornwall where he returns often to paint familiar places. Philip looks for modest, everyday events and scenes and combines subtle colours with strong patterns to create a firm structure. He exhibits in London and the South West and his work is in several public collections including the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Cornwall and Palace of Westminster London.
David Mankin is a contemporary abstract artist living and working in the far west of Cornwall. In 2014 David became a full time artist having followed a previous career in graphic design and publishing. Since then he has built a strong and growing reputation with collectors throughout the UK. His work is bold, instinctive and gestural, as if he is living in the landscape itself. In his work texture, colours, shapes, sounds, movements and spaces all collide onto the canvas. A book about David's work will be published next month August 2021 called David Mankin - Remembering in Paint, by Kate Reeve-Edwards and published by Sansom and Company. He exhibits regularly in Cornwall and London.
Caroline Poole is an oil painter living and working in Suffolk and London. Caroline paints from observation and works outside in all weathers, settling her easel in a particular spot in coastal Suffolk to paint trees and the coastal landscape, returning regularly to capture the subtle changes resulting from the seasons and coastal erosion. Her work is now attracting attention throughout East Anglia and beyond.
Celia Read is an artist living and working in London. After a first career in the probation service and psychotherapy Celia trained as an artist at Putney School of Art, Sir John Cass and Central St Martins Schools of Art. She has exhibited in a number of solo and group shows in London. This series of work is called Continuity and Change and came out of Celia's lockdown experiences in 2020 as she sat and watched the sea moving and changing from her vantage point in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Erin Ward is a landscape artist living in Yorkshire whose work is inspired by regular walking visits to coastal regions particularly Cornwall and the East Coast including Norfolk. Erin is drawn to painting the extremes where land and sea meet, where rock meets water and salt water meets fresh water. Light and weather influence the final cocktail of paint which is chosen and often mixed directly onto the canvas applied with palette knife or fingers. Erin exhibits widely round the UK and her work is held in private collections in the UK and US.
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