Sam Rudd

SAM RUDD

Sam Rudd’s work sits firmly in the tradition of British pastoral landscape, but she brings her own spontaneous vision. Her inspiration comes from the scenery around her two homes in Cheshire and North Wales. One, a Utopian landscape of steep hills crested with cottages, hedges and fences, meandering ancient field lines, woodland and stone walls. The other – where her home meets the shoreline – a world of undiscovered beaches and rocky coves framed by steep hills and distant glimpses of Snowdonia.

From the flux of woodland and field patterns to the ebb and flow of estuaries and sandy bays, Sam’s initial sketches gather the experience of place and season. Using a mixture of representation and abstraction, shapes and compositions are developed with a restricted colour palette and energised mark making from which the finished work emerges, often unplanned. Although verging on abstraction, each work comes from a physical place capturing emotion and experience.

By using a limited palette, Sam’s paintings are more concerned with rhythm, colour and pattern than topography or weather. The distant red roof of a cottage is echoed in the colour of a foreground rock or flower. The slate blue of a cliff line picks up the form and tone of a beached dinghy. Her skill lies in extracting the essential information of a scene, paring down detail to create a carefully balanced composition of deceptive simplicity. She creates a strong sense of place though much about the place, the time and the experience are left to our imagination.

Sam worked for many years as an illustrator where she drew constantly often under tight deadlines for newspapers and magazines. Her line is remarkably free and organic – she draws with paint or overlays a few strokes on her compositions to create the dynamics of the scene, perspective, texture and content. Drawing may be the foundation of her work, but these are paintings which conjure an elegiac vision of rural landscape painted with a feeling of deep familiarity and contentment.

Elspeth Moncrieff

CRICKET FINE ART

at 2 Park Walk, London SW 10 0 AD

Thursday 5th October 2023 12 noon – 3pm

Exhibition dates: 27th September - 13th October 2023

Paintings are for sale on receipt of this catalogue

The entire exhibition can be viewed online at www.cricketfineart.co.uk

Beach House

Mixed media on canvas 120 × 150 cm

£6,500

Old Barn

Oil on canvas 50 × 60 cm £2,600

Nestled In Oil on canvas 50 × 60 cm £2,600

Cow Parsley Field Oil on canvas 100 × 100 cm £4,800

Shorelines

Oil on canvas 100 × 120 cm £5,200

Country Walk

Mixed media on canvas 61 × 91 cm

Green Fields

Oil on canvas 60 × 50 cm

Pastures

Green

Oil on canvas 60 × 50 cm

£3,900

£2,600

£2,600

Guillemot Birds by the Cliffs

Mixed media on canvas 80 × 100 cm £4,200

Gaggle

Mixed media on canvas 80 × 100 cm £4,200

Mother Goose

Mixed media on canvas 80 × 80 cm £4,000

Driftwood and Pebbles

Mixed media on canvas 80 × 100 cm £4,200

Distant Sails

Mixed media on canvas 101 × 76 cm £4,200

Headland

Mixed media on canvas 80 × 100 cm £4,200

Old Boats

Mixed media on canvas 61 × 91 cm £3,900

Path To The Lighthouse

Mixed media on canvas 60 × 70 cm £3,000

Sandy Ridge Oil on board 35 × 45 cm £2,100

Path to the Beach Oil on board 35 × 45 cm £2,100

By

The River

Oil on paper 40 × 40 cm £2,200

Summer River

Oil on paper 40 × 40 cm £2,200

Meadowlands

Oil on canvas 100 × 100 cm £4,800

Moors

Oil on canvas 35 × 45 cm £2,100

Yellow Morning Oil on canvas 120 × 90 cm £4,900

Heath Oil on canvas 35 × 45 cm £2,100

Mosses Oil on paper 40 × 40 cm £2,200

Hill House Oil on paper 30 × 30 cm £1,100

Beach Dog Oil on board 50 × 40 cm £2,400

Neighbouring Barns Oil on board 22 × 43 cm £1,200

Mixed media on paper 30 × 30 cm

Mixed media on paper 30 × 30 cm

30

Farmland

£1,100

Landlines

£1,100

Fold

Mixed media on paper 30 × 30 cm £1,100

Up to the House

Mixed media on paper

× 30 cm £1,100

Pastoral Oil on paper 50 × 58 cm £2,600

Out in the Fields Oil on paper 50 × 58 cm £2,600

Two Stone Cottages Oil on paper 58 × 55 cm £2,700

Oil on board 40 × 50 cm

Oil on board 40 × 50 cm

Mixed media on canvas 80 × 100 cm

English Landscape

£2,400

Wilderness

£2,400

Homestead

£4,200