Orange Field
Oil on canvas, 2008
£245
Blue Bird
Oil on Canvas, 2008
£640
Lone Gull
Oil on Canvas, 2008
£420
Summer Dawn
Oil on Canvas, 2008
£560
Cool Carm
Oil on Canvas, 2008
£560
Influenced by the quality of light, glint of blue, ruggedness and space offered uniquely by Cornwall, her work expresses a love of the area.
Statement: I work with layers, slowly developing my paintings so they hold glimpses of past processes; layering gives me a sense of freedom in my work to stay experimental. Ideas are intuitive reminiscences from the cliffs and the sea in Cornwall.
Allowing the accidental helps to challenge me to move my paintings in new directions. Those little whisperings of synchronicities, reveries of visual moments, echoes of light around me are mirrored in the painting. I use oil paint, as it is the texture and slow drying time that works with my practice.
I work with several paintings together over time, sometimes taking months even years to resolve work. It gives my paintings a history of their own. Artists that have influenced me include Prunella Clough, Patrick Heron, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell.
Phoenix
Oil on Canvas, 2008
SOLD
Still life Summer
oil on board
£1200
Women by open
window
oil on board, 1995
£2100
Mending nets
Porthleven
oil on board, 1987
£2800
Mens Institute, Porthleven
oil on board, 1988
£1500
Zoe's long career has won her recognition as one of the leading figurative painters of her generation, and has brought her many high profile commissions such as the portrait of Lord Bath in 2002. From 1990 to 2001 Zoe lectured at Falmouth College of Art and Design and was visiting lecturer in painting at the Accademia di Belli Arti di Vinezia, Italy.
Statement: As a child I had strong bonds with animals. This has never left me. Through my imagery, I like to identify and investigate those intense relationships. I often invest my own psycho / physical qualities in the figure, sometimes the animal. It is the different kinds of friendship between the two that makes me wonder, the discovery and use of power in these relationships, the simplicity and complexity of a moment, the transitory nature of our lives - this is all part my narrative. To deal with the complicated nature of painting is a life long challenge; to make a really good painting is my constant ambition. Every time I go into my studio I hope this could be the one.
Resting figure
oil on board, 1987
£2900
Statement: My work is exploratory, derived from the landscape and memories from past places, some from my childhood. I recently returned to Derbyshire and Yorkshire, my childhood home, which I have not revisited until now. I found that some of the struggles with my work were about those places and were now reflected in the moors in Devon.
My work is not static or predictable and I achieve what I need when I allow the work to lead me, the experience can be a daunting one as I often have to destroy before I am given what I am looking for.
SOLD
The current collection depicts aspects of the character and atmosphere of the Breton and south west of England coastlines. They have been completed over the last 2/3 years and a number of them have been exhibited in Brittany.
Statement: I have long been aware of the work of Nicolas de Stael and Yves Tanguy, whose influences, although not direct, have been inspiring. I work with a variety of techniques and media but in the present paintings I have used oil on cotton or linen canvas.
Although I have lived and spent a great deal of time near the sea since childhood; the fascination with the character, atmosphere & mood of the coastline has begun comparatively recently, to play an important part in my work. I find the ability of the sea and coastline to evoke a complexity of mood and reflection a developing and deepening pre-occupation.
Robert Jones is noted for the skilled way he captures climatic variations of sky and sea. Wild days with rolling seas and dark skies, morning light or dusky evenings, all are portrayed
with energy and realism. He mostly paints in situ on craggy outcrops or windy beaches, providing immediacy in the work that’s breathtaking. We’ve all been there, experienced the exhilaration of the moment, but few can grasp the feeling and preserve it like Robert Jones.
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He was born in Cornwall in 1943, and studied at Falmouth School of Art where he was taught by Francis Hewlett and Robert Organ. He has had a varied career; teacher, trawler skipper, author, furniture maker and professional artist. Robert has written a number of books including the prize winning ‘Alfred Wallis Artist and Mariner’.
Herrings, oil on canvas, £450
20th Century Eastern European School
Still Life
Oil/canvas
76x65 cm £1800
20th Century Eastern European School
Still life
Oil/canvas
82x68 cm £1800