St Ives - a sense of place
10 November - 1 December 2012
hiltonfine art
hiltonfine art
Hilton Fine Art, 5 Margaret’s Buildings, Bath BA1 2LP 01225 311311 info@hiltonfineart.com www.hiltonfineart.com
St Ives - a sense of place Sandra Blow - Peter Davies - Rose Hilton - Kurt Jackson Stuart Knowles - Matthew Lanyon - Jason Lilley - Daphne McClure - Linda Weir
Coinciding with the Bath Art Affair, Hilton Fine Art presents two exhibitions. The lower gallery will show an exhibition of St Ives artists past and present, exploring why the tip of the Cornish peninsula remains such a thriving and fertile place for artists. The show features work by Sandra Blow, Peter Davies, Rose Hilton, Kurt Jackson, Stuart Knowles, Matthew Lanyon, Jason Lilley, Daphne McClure and Linda Weir. Alongside this show there will be an exclusive exhibition of paintings by William Crozier in the ground floor gallery, including previously unseen work. The two shows compliment each other by their exploration of landscape in terms of colour, pattern and a sense of place.
cover image: Linda Weir St Ives oil on canvas 52 x 78cm
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Sandra Blow R.A. (1925 - 2006) Sandra Blow, painter and teacher: born London 14 September 1925; Tutor, Painting School, Royal College of Art 1961-75; ARA 1971, RA 1978; died Truro, Cornwall 22 August 2006. During the 1950s, Sandra Blow was one of the pioneering abstract painters who introduced into British art a new expressive informality, using cheap, discarded materials such as sawdust, sackcloth and plaster alongside the more familiar material of paint. A tactile as well as visual emphasis on surface resulted in powerful and complex images, exuding a rooted earthiness, yet full of mysterious flux and ambiguity. Later, in response to the optimistic climate of the 1960s, Blow’s palette lightened and for most of the rest of her career, easily manipulated collage materials, like torn paper or brightly coloured canvas cutouts, littered her often large-scale pictures. The Matisse-inspired decorative manner of her middle and late periods was a seamless collaboration between the constructed and the freely painted. She exhibited locally but also fulfilled her obligations as a Royal Academician, participating in every Summer Exhibition at Burlington House, where she enjoyed a retrospective in 1994 at the newly built Sackler Galleries. An exhibition to mark Blow’s 80th birthday was held at Tate Britain last year, coinciding with the publication of a biography, Sandra Blow, by Michael Bird.
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Transcendent mixed media on canvas 115 x 115cm
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Colour Within screen print 93 x 91cm
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Red Melange screen print and collage 94 x 91cm
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Peter Davies Peter Davies is an artist with a long-standing interest in the history of the St Ives art scene. As well as a painter and printmaker, Peter is an art critic and writer and among the 18 books on art criticism that he has written he recently published ‘St Ives Colony in Transition’ which examines this area’s key generations and traditions. Peter writes for The Independent, and is a member of the Bath Society of Artists and Poole Printmakers.
The Wakefield Girl linocut 10
Tregenna Rooftops, St Ives linocut
The Godrevy Window linocut 11
Rose Hilton Rose Hilton, born Tonbridge , Kent, studied at Beckenham School of Art and in 1953 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. On her return from a year in Rome she met the artist Roger Hilton and married in 1965 and set up home together in a house on Botallack Moor, St Just, where they lived until Roger’s early death in 1975. Rose has steadily built a reputation as a major St Ives artist. At the recent retrospective held at Tate St Ives in January-May 2008, the paintings were chosen to reflect the increasingly abstract nature of her work, though she rarely abandons figuration entirely. Though best known for her sensual nudes and lusciously coloured interiors, there were also landscapes on display, in which the leap towards abstraction is perhaps most apparent. An in-depth study on Rose Hilton by Andrew Lambirth, critic for the Spectator, was published in June 2009. Selected Exhibitions: 2012 Mixed exhibitions, Hilton Fine Art, Bath 2012 Solo Exhibition, Messum’s London 2008 Tate St Ives: ‘The Beauty of Ordinary Things’ 1991/’95/’97/’98/’2000/’01/’02 Solo shows, Messum’s London 2002 North Light Gallery, Huddersfield, solo show 1994 ‘Three Painters of Penwith’, Messum’s 1989 Joined David Messum Fine Art Ltd. (Messum’s) 1988 Oxford Gallery 1987 Newlyn Art Gallery 1978 Plymouth Art Gallery 1977 First Solo Show at the Newlyn Gallery 1961 Regular showings with Penwith and Newlyn Society of Artists
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On the Green Chair oil on card 61 x 51cm 13
Kurt Jackson Kurt Jackson MA (Oxon) DLitt (Hon) RWA was born is 1961 in Blandford, Dorset. He graduated from St Peter’s College, Oxford with a degree in Zoology in 1983. While there, he spent most of his time painting and attending courses at Ruskin College of Art, Oxford. On gaining his degree he travelled extensively and independently, painting wherever he went. He travelled to the Arctic alone and hitched across Africa with his wife. This has given him a broad experience of environments and cultures which has enriched his work with a unique insight and an attention to detail. He moved to Cornwall in 1984 where he still lives and works. He has been Artist in Residence on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, at the Eden Project and at Glastonbury Festival since 1999. He has an Honorary Doctorate (DLitt) from Exeter University and is an Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford University. He is an ambassador for Survival International and frequently works with Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, WaterAid, Oxfam and Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Selected solo exhibitions 2012 ‘The Catacol Series: Paintings on Arran’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. ‘This Place: St Just-in-Penwith’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. 2011 ‘Kurt Jackson at 50’, Falmouth Art Gallery. ‘The Forth’, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh. ‘Gwedhen/Tree’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. ‘Recent Work at the Redfern Gallery’ Redfern Gallery, London. 2010 ‘Ardnamurchan’, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh. Book launch and Exhibition, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London. Lorient Festival, Brittany. ‘The Dart’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. A Taste of Glastonbury’, Oxo Tower, London. 2009 Messum’s, London. ‘Forest Gardens’. Glastonbury Festival charity auction, Guardian News Room, London. ‘River Avon, Part 2’, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. ‘Enesow: An exploration of the islands of Cornwall’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. 2008 Messum’s, London. ‘The Lights of West Cornwall’. ‘Wicken, a Threatened Landscape’, charity auction for Friends of the Earth, London. ‘The Solent Project’, touring exhibition: St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington; - Gosport Arts Centre, Hants; Quay Arts Centre, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. ‘The Tamar Project’. ‘The Mining Paintings’, Geevor Mine Gallery, Cornwall. ‘Theatre Five’, charity exhibition for MSF, Royal College of Surgeons, London; - Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. 2007 Messum’s, London. ‘Caroline and the veg patch, Two French rivers’. ‘River Avon Part 1’, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Glastonbury Festival charity auction, The Hospital, Covent Garden. Lemon Street Gallery, Truro. ‘The Cornish Crows’.
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Across to Tennants Wood. More rain. Autumn leaves float by mixed media 57x61cm
Bath rain acrylic 19.5 x 21.5cm
Widcombe willows Bath acrylic 18 x 18.5cm
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Stuart Knowles Stuart was born in Redruth, Cornwall, 1948. His art studies were undertaken at Farnham School of Art and Winchester School of Art, followed by postgraduate work at the Slade School, London. His fuller story is told well by Tom CROSS in his 2002 survey volume, Catching the Wave, Contemporary Art & Artists in Cornwall. Aside from painting, Stuart has also had part-time teaching positions at Falmouth College of Art. Selected Exhibitions 2012 St Ives Past and Present, Hilton Fine Art, Bath 2006 Selection of Studies – The Gorge Galamus, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro (solo) The Cornish Connection, Belgrave Gallery, London 2005 St Ives Artists – Past and Present, Sherborne House, Dorset 2004 French Hill Notes – The Gorge Galamus Studies, Six Chapel Row, Bath (solo) 1999 to 2006 The Belgrave Gallery, St Ives 1999 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives 1996 Winter Bay Studies, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (solo) 1995 Centenary Exhibition, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance 1994 Showcase, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro 1994 Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London 1993 Demarco’s Choice, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance 1992 Artists from Cornwall, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 1992 Peninsula Journeys, London and Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University 1992 Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance (solo) 1992 Marlene Eleini Gallery, London 1987 Marlene Eleini Gallery, London (solo) 1984 The City’s Pictures, Barbican Art Gallery, London 1983 Basel 1983 Udine, Italy 1982 Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
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Black Sail Bay (for Tristan & Isolde) oil on paper 59 x 79cm
Black Sail Bay II oil on paper 59 x 79cm
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Keltoi oil on paper 59 x 79cm
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Study – Harvest Garden oil on paper 11 x 28cm
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Matthew Lanyon Born in St Ives, Cornwall, 1951 Education: Penzance, Leicester University Exhibitions: 2011: Bohun Gallery – mixed, Porthminster Gallery – mixed Open Space Gallery – mixed, New Craftsman Gallery – solo Wetpaint Gallery – mixed 2010: Porthminster Gallery – mixed, Rainyday Gallery – solo, Gloss Gallery – mixed New Craftsman Gallery – two man 2009: Porthminster Gallery – mixed, Rainyday Gallery – solo Tutti arts gallery – mixed, Bohun Gallery – mixed 1994: Rainyday Gallery, Penzance 1996: Salthouse Gallery, St Ives 2000: Rainyday Gallery, Penzance 2001: Rainyday Gallery, Penzance – solo, Originals, London Affordable Art Fair, London 2002: Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn – solo, Affordable Art Fair 2003: Rainyday Gallery, Penzance - solo 2004: The John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold Wiseman Originals, London, Gallery, Penzance - solo The Hutson Gallery, London, Platform 100 Exhibition, London 2005: Wiseman Originals, London, Rainyday Gallery, Penzance - solo Minster Fine Art, York - solo 2006: Minster Fine Art – Solo, New Grafton Gallery The Rainy Day Gallery – Solo, The John Davies Gallery 2007: Tate St. Ives, Rainyday Gallery – Solo, Porthminster Gallery The John Davies Gallery 2008: Porthminster Gallery - summer , Rainyday Gallery - solo 20
White Boat II oil on board 76 x 102cm
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Godrevy LXIX oil on board 23 x 6cm
Europa XXV 25 x 25 inches oil on board 22
Gone Down Lane oil on board 62 x 102cm
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Jason Lilley
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2012 Hilton Fine Art, Bath “St.Ives - A Sense of Place” Belgrave Gallery, St.Ives “Summer Show” Belgrave Gallery, 20/21 Art Fair, London Poly Print Show, Falmouth, Cornwall 2011 Highgate Contemporary, two-man show with John Howard RE, London Ascenders Print Show, Redruth Eleven and a Half Gallery, Cornwall and Edinburgh Truro Museum, Cornwall “Wave 1 & 2” Belgrave Gallery, Cornwall Byard Art, Cambridge 2010 MMXMAS, Belgrave Gallery, Cornwall Prints at the Poly, Falmouth Bedales Gallery, Hants A4 Print Makers, Penryn and New Zealand West by South West, Penzance Salmagundi Belgrave gallery, St.Ives West Cornwall Perspectives, Mayfair, London Print Exhibition Belgrave gallery, St.Ives 2009 John Howard Studio, Morvah, Penwith Belgrave gallery, St.Ives Impress Print Festival, Gloucester 2008 Prints from the Studio, The Poly, Falmouth Belgrave Gallery, St.Ives 2007 Belgrave Gallery, St.Ives Glass House Gallery, Penzance 2006 Belgrave, London Belgrave Gallery, St.Ives 2005 Belgrave Gallery, St.Ives - one person show Sherbourne House, Dorset
Hollow support oil on board 61 x 65cm
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Fish Street oil on board 11 x 14cm
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Flooded Below for Twelve Months, Flooded Above for One oil on board 30 x 130cm
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Wake Me Up When September/October Comes oil on board 18 x 27cm
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Linda Weir Born 1951, Manchester Education & Qualifications 1978 – 83 Manchester Metropolitan University, BA Hons Fine Art; PGCE Art 1986 – 88 Nottingham Trent University, MA Fine Art 1994 – 96 University of Nottingham Med Counselling & Psychotherapy Solo Exhibitions 2005 Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance 2004 Market House, Marazion, Cornwall 2001 Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln 1994 Blackfriars Boston 1994 Worcester Arts Workshop Sea Paintings, Cornwall 1992 Arts Intaglio, Manchester 1991 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 1991 Stockport Art Gallery Umist, Manchester Oldham Art Gallery G.Mex, Manchester BBC Manchester Group Exhibitions 2012 St Ives Past and Present, Hilton Fine Art, Bath 2007 Lemon St Gallery, Truro 2007 Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance 2007 Wendy Levy Gallery, Manchester 2007 Belgrave Gallery, London 2007 Thomsons Gallery, London 2007 Martins Gallery, Cheltenham 2007 Peter Davies book launch ‘Art Colony in Transition’, St Ives 2006 Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2005 Porthminster Gallery, St Ives 2002 New Craftsmen, St Ives 2004 Hutson Gallery, London 2004 The Market House, Marazion2001 Guardian Inaugural Exhibition, London 30
Linda Weir St Ives oil on board 50 x 60cm
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Hilton Fine Art, 5 Margaret’s Buildings, Bath BA1 2LP 01225 311311 info@hiltonfineart.com www.hiltonfineart.com