COLIN HALLIDAY ALBION July 7 - 26, 2012
Colin Halliday has exhibited extensively across London and the rest of the UK and is best known for contemporary landscape paintings in oil and acrylic. His artwork features regularly in British art publications and private and public collections. Halliday is represented by GX in London and has received public commissions including: Macmillan Trust, Earl of Scarborough and the NHS. Born in Carlisle in 1964, Colin studied at Cumbria College of Art & Design and then completed his BA(hons) in Fine Art at Exeter University. ALBION refers to ancient name for Great Britain, a land revered for its great beauty and lush landscape....As an artist Halliday is inspired by what is felt when immersed in nature, and by his surroundings in Cumbria. These new works have evolved from his studies of the area and further develop on the explorations of Old Masters such as Turner and Constable with expressive bold brushstrokes, building on observations and technique and the use of layering and medium to relate the observations of a scene.
“The timeless quality of the landscape as a subject fascinates me and for that reason I do not include figures or buildings so that one cannot place it in a time. When walking somewhere remote one has no real reference to the modern world you could literally be seeing what people saw hundreds of years ago. Indeed with some subjects such as a river one could also be anywhere in England. There are specific locations I paint but what really drives me to paint there is the beauty of the scene and the mood it conveys. I try to find a balance between painting what I see and what feels right and looks good on the surface of my painting. Based on observation yes but with marks and gestures to remind you that what you are looking at is an object in its own right it is not “ The landscape “ it is a painting. I strive for an honesty in my work and paint what I feel moved by without a thought for the viewer or it would start to be about trying to please people and looking for praise when art should be about something much more fundamental and deep felt. By painting landscapes one is not distracted by meaning or story, there is no preaching or high intellect rather a vehicle for expressing emotion and speaking of the eternal.” - Colin Halliday
Front cover: Vista, oil on canvas, 71 x 99 centimetres, £3500 Left page: Colin Halliday This page: Studio
An English Landscape oil on canvas 68 x 81 centimetres ÂŁ3200
Sunshine Breaking Through oil on canvas 41 x 41 cm SOLD
Pass oil on canvas 31 x 31 centimetres ÂŁ800
Witness oil on canvas 61 x 76 centimetres ÂŁ2800
Passing Storm oil on canvas 76 x 86 centimetres ÂŁ3500
Bluebells acrylic on canvas 76 x 102 centimetres ÂŁ4000
Bluebells Study II oil on canvas 31 x 31 cm ÂŁ800
Secret Pool oil on canvas 107 x 381 centimetres ÂŁ15,000
Reflections oil on canvas 31 x 81 centimetres ÂŁ2,000
River Study1 oil on canvas 13 x 18 centimetres £450
River Study II oil on canvas 18 x 13 centimetres £450
Autumn Tree oil on canvas 18 x 13 centimetres ÂŁ450
Snow oil on canvas 61 x 127 centimetres ÂŁ5000
April Snow oil on canvas 117 x 112 centimetres ÂŁ6000
Summer Rain oil on canvas 41 x 41 centimetres ÂŁ1200
Wast Water oil on canvas 41 x 41 centimetres ÂŁ1200
Wast Water, Passing Strom oil on canvas 62 x 76 centimetres ÂŁ2800
Moorland oil on canvas 31 x 81 centimetres ÂŁ2000
Autumn Moorland oil on canvas 31 x 61 centimetres ÂŁ1600
Borrowdale oil on canvas 107 x 127 centimetres ÂŁ6000
Close oil on canvas 31 x 31 centimetres ÂŁ800
River Sunset oil on canvas 71 x 51 centimetres SOLD
Snow and Sun oil on canvas 76 x 76 centimetres ÂŁ2200
Colin Halliday
Selected Group Exhibitions
Born: 1964, London Lives: Derbyshire
2012 2008 2007 2005 2004 2004 2004 2003 2003 2003 2002 2001 2001 1998 1997 1994 1993 1992
1989-92 - BA (Honours) Fine Art, Exeter 1987-88 - Foundation Course in Fine Art, Carlisle Selected Solo Shows 2012 Albion, GX Gallery, London 2011 GX Gallery, London 2010 From Pastoral to Sublime, GX Gallery, London 2009 The Elements, GX Gallery, London 2008 The Romantic North, GXgallery, London Back to Nature, Start Space, London 2007 A Sense of Place, GXgallery, London, UK 2006 “English Landscapes” GXgallery, London, UK 2005 “The Smoke and the water” GXgallery, London, UK 2004 Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, Pilg rim st. London (represented by Collyer Bristow) “ From City to Sea” GXgallery, London, UK 2003 GXgallery, London, UK 2002 The Walk Gallery, London, UK 2001 “Lost Wilderness”, Blyth Gallery, Manchester, UK 2000 “The Twenty First Century Landscape”, Sutton House, Hack ney, London, UK “Aretrospective”, The Walk Gallery, London, UK “The Promised Land”, Harrow Arts Club, London, UK 1999 “Future Landscapes” Knapp Gallery, Regent’s College, London, UK “Landscape in Consciousness”, The One Below Gallery, Telegraph Hill, London “Landscape in Consciousness”, Grey College, Durham, UK 1997 “Fools Paradise”, The Sun and Doves, Camberwell, London, UK 1994 “Somewhere between preservation and destruction”, Carnegie Arts Cen tre, Workington, UK
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, GX Gallery, London Gascoigne Gallery, Harrogate Open Spaces, Ridgeway Gallery, Bakewell “Life in the city”, Wills Art Warehouse, London, UK “Escape”, Wills Art Warehouse, London, UK Artspace at Worcester, UK Artspace at Navestock, Essex, UK “Life in the City”, Wills Art Warehouse, London, UK Group Show, Enid Lawson, London, UK Webbs Marine Gallery, Battersea, London, UK “Life in the City”, Wills Art Warehouse, Parson’s Green, London, UK Thomas Corman Fine Art, Ashurst Morris and Crisp, Broadbalk House, London EC1, UK Summer Show, Art Attack, Hoxton Square, London, UK “The Magic Place” (Joint Show with Matthew Sibley) Islington Arts Fac tory, London, UK “The Goose Green Open” Dulwich Picture Gallery (selected by Tom Philips), London, UK Summer Show, Burlington New Gallery, London, UK “The Lake Artists Society”, Grasmere, Cumbria, UK “Sign V Symbol”, Space X Gallery, Exeter, UK
Commissions Macmillan Trust Earl of Scarbrough Cancer suite Rotherham NHS Private Collections Adrian Lester Helen Mirren Owen Teale
Back Cover: Borrowdale, Study, acrylic on canvas, 31 x 31 centimetres,£800
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