Neil Pinkett - Shifting Skies & Seas 31 May - 21 June 2014
Muted Sun oil on panel 28 x 38cm
Cover: St Michael’s Mount, High Water, oil on panel, 38 x 49cm
Neil Pinkett - Shifting Skies & Seas 31 May - 21 June 2014
Neil Pinkett was born in St Just on the very tip of Cornwall. It is a dramatic place to live with a narrow peninsula being surrounded on three sides by the sea, causing constantly changing skies with squalls coming in off the ocean often followed by the sun suddenly breaking through. It is these fleeting light effects that have inspired this collection of paintings at Hilton Fine Art. Pinkett works with a very limited palette which provides his beautiful trademark, highly orchestrated purpley / green / grey paintings. The works are painted up from sketches done on the spot, working on an impasto ground that has the complementary final colours on it. This gives the pictures vitality and gives Pinkett something to work against, incorporating the chance element. The pictures are attacked with great energy, mostly using the palette knife and with the atmosphere and feel of the light and movement of that particular time of day being as important as the descriptive elements of the scene. Much emphasis is put on the abstraction in the figuration. Greys are repeated thoughout the pictures and Pinkett delights in the formal structure of the painting, for example, placing a colour on the major diagonal of the golden section of the composition.
Late Light oil on panel 60 x 76cm
Cape Cornwall oil on panel 70 x 90cm
Cloud on Sand oil on panel 38 x 49cm
High Winds, Heavy Swell oil on panel 60 x 90cm
Grey and Green Over Sea oil on panel 38 x 53cm
St Michael’s Mount oil on panel 44 x 56cm
Atlantic Swell oil on panel 90 x 120cm
Evening Sun oil on panel 46 x 56cm
Blue and Grey oil on panel 28 x 38cm
High Waves oil on panel 37 x 55cm
Fishing Huts oil on panel 50 x 76cm
The Mount, Dramatic Light oil on panel 30 x 40cm
Atlantic Waves oil on panel 29 x 38cm
Messy Sea oil on panel 28 x 38cm
Wave After Wave oil on panel 70 x 90cm
St Michael’s Mount, Late Night oil on panel 30 x 41cm
Crashing Waves, North Coast oil on panel 46 x 57cm
Off Shore oil on panel 28 x 38cm
Grey and Green oil on panel 28 x 38cm
Pink and Grey oil on panel 28 x 40cm
Huge Waves oil on panel 60 x 90cm
Crashing Waves oil on panel 24 x 38cm
Cove Swell oil on panel 40 x 56cm
Evening Clouds oil on panel 60 x 76cm
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