Adam Cornish

Down from Raginnis Acrylic on plywood

32 x 75cm White timber frame with floating mount

Down from Ragannis represents a relationship with the landscape and more specifically with that of the hinterland between the sea and the land. Evoking the ‘genius loci’, it explores how our perception of place changes as we travel through an environment. The painting explores a journey down into Mousehole - how the relationship with the sea and land changes; how the environment has been formed by its inhabitants; the harshness of the weather and the sea; and the protection of both natural and man-made structures, culminating in a harbour that affords shelter and calm from the Atlantic beyond.

Pool Jump 4

Charcoal on paper

40 x 30cm Unframed

By manipulating a mesh of generic stock images, a fictitious exotic location is created to provide an ideal of what consumers should want, playing on the advertising ideal of trying to recapture the freedom of youth, unburdened by everyday life, where anything is possible. The work mimics the way adverts lure us to that escapism, free from responsibility, yet the imminent disruption to be caused by the pool diver hints at an artificiality behind the confines of the image.

Identi-Tee

Biro pen ink on cotton fabric shirt

Size 8-10 Womens T-Shirt framed in 84x 59cm. If hung from wire hanger dimensions are 65x 58cm may shrink from free-hang.

Identi-Tee Is a worn sports shirt illustrated onto with biro ink from my time at school. The illustration is based on my experience there, from bullying to physical abuse to nightmares which haunted me. Naturally the details and condition have started and will continue to fade away, requiring frequent maintenance, as do most of my works as I continue to explore the relationship between familial materials and their purpose. This preservation choice is a relation to decomposition, allowing changes or “updates” to the design, referencing how we as individuals are continuously undergoing metamorphism within our identity.

A Cold Winters Way and the Road Home Oil, household charcoal

84 x 103 x 4cm

Description of a landscape in winter in which the feel of cold / distance etc is more important than realism as such.

£1,500

Mezzotint on fabriano 16.8 x 12cm Black frame

Key stemmed from an investigation into the process of mezzotint. The mezzotint was made on a copper plate, the surface of which has been scraped and polished to give areas of shade and light respectively. The technique was much used in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries and isn’t attempted by most people due to how time consuming it is. I wanted a challenge, so I illustrated a key from my imagination using a burnished and scraper. £145

Self 2023

Oil on tattooed steel

62 X 46cm

Unframed

£500