Abstract meets Landscape - extended for one more day, Saturday 7 May.
We're open 10-5pm.
Ruth Bunnewell, Neil Canning, Jane Lewis RWS, David Mankin, Malca Schotten and sculptor Robert Erskine FRSS.
Abstract Meets Landscape is an exciting exhibition of over 40 works by 5 artists and a sculptor illustrating the creative journey the artist makes moving from the natural landscape to making marks on a surface resulting in a work of art. Abstract art, a major art stream in modern art since the 1900’s, has always invited us the viewer to make out for ourselves the patterns, forms, colours and meaning. Few abstract artists want to impose their ideas on the viewer; rather it is for us to make up our own minds. This is why we love abstract art.
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Ruth Bunnewell is a Norfolk based artist working in oils. Her chosen subject matter is woods and forests both real and imagined, and it is the emotions triggered as well as the shapes and colours which characterise Ruth's work.
She graduated from Norwich University College of Arts in 2004 and since then has exhibited widely in solo and group shows within East Anglia and London. She was shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize in 2017. Find out more at Ruth Bunnewell.
She graduated from Norwich University College of Arts in 2004 and since then has exhibited widely in solo and group shows within East Anglia and London. She was shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize in 2017. Find out more at Ruth Bunnewell.
Neil Canning lives and works near Marazion, Cornwall. He is part of the new generation of St Ives artists. In 1997 Neil was included in the exhibition Art Now Cornwall at Tate St Ives. In 2011 he won the main prize in the Discerning Eye Exhibition sponsored by ING. In 2011 Neil received an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter for his "outstanding contribution to contemporary British art". Recent significant solo shows include Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff, Lemon Street Gallery in Truro, Portland Gallery in London and the Lynne Strover Gallery in Cambridge. Find out more at Neil Canning.
Robert Erskine FRSS completed his post-graduate studies under Professor Reg Butler at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He continued to work from studios in London until 2014 when he moved to Suffolk. He is known for creating large public monumental sculptures, for example the 10 metre high Tunstall Shard in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire created in 2008 which celebrates the life and skills of the pottery industry, showing a potter's thumb print, on the former site of the Wedgewood Pottery. He is a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. Find out more at Robert Erskine.
Jane Lewis RWS is a leading abstract landscape artist living and working in Suffolk. Jane moved to Suffolk in 1987, and has painted full time since 1997 both in oils and watercolour. Her work is informed by the East Anglian landscape.
Jane exhibits widely in the UK and her work is held in the East Contemporary Art Collection UCS Suffolk, Madison Museum of Fine Art Georgia USA, Central Loop Hotel Chicago USA and the Corinthia Hotel London, UK. Find out more at Jane Lewis.
Jane exhibits widely in the UK and her work is held in the East Contemporary Art Collection UCS Suffolk, Madison Museum of Fine Art Georgia USA, Central Loop Hotel Chicago USA and the Corinthia Hotel London, UK. Find out more at Jane Lewis.
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. A book about David's work, published in August 2021 called David Mankin - Remembering in Paint, by Kate Reeve-Edwards is now on a second print run. He exhibits regularly in Cornwall and London. See more: go to David Mankin.
Malca Schotten lives and works in Norwich, Norfolk She works in pastel, charcoal and oils. Malca completed her foundation at Hornsey Art School (Middlesex University )before graduating with a BA(Hons) in Illustration at Brighton University. She worked for Thames and Hudson alongside her graphic designer father for 10 years whilst also developing her artistic skills and exhibiting in London. Solo shows have included regular shows at Mandell's Gallery, and The Fairhurst Gallery in Norwich. Find out more at Malca Schotten.
Words from one of the world's best living abstract artists Amy Sillman (US B 1955)writing about the death of her friend and artist Louise Fishman."It is unstraight lines, or many straight and curved lines together, that are eloquent to the touch. They appear and disappear, are now deep, now shallow, now broken off or lengthened or swelling. They rise and sink beneath my fingers, they are full of sudden starts and pauses, and their variety is inexhaustible and wonderful.” . . . The author is a blind woman, Helen Keller.
Her sensitiveness shames us whose open eyes fail to grasp these qualities of form. —Meyer Schapiro, “On the Humanity of Abstract Painting,” 1960. From ARTFORUM, NOV 2021, “UNSTRAIGHT LINES: Louise Fishman, 1939-2021”