The Willow House Ann McCay
Front cover: The Willow House oil on linen 90 x 120cm unframed £2,200
The Willow House Ann McCay
18th June to 16th July 2022
TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY
4 Quality Square, Ludlow SY8 1AR twenty-twenty.co.uk
Ann McCay
The Willow House Ann McCay
“When making something, memories, empirical observation and make-believe continually overlap and interact.” Marina Warner from Forms of Enchantment
These paintings grew out of my regular walks to a bank of willows upstream from where I live. Over many years these willows have become rooms of my own. They have grown to become the house that you see in these images. A house without walls that has fallen timbers that renew themselves, and grow again in different positions as branches fall off and take root in the riverbank. The house expands and changes shape slowly as the trees grow, and then suddenly during floods and high winds.
The inhabitants of the Willow House are characters who have wandered in and out of my paintings for years. Sometimes they represent feelings or ideas and sometimes aspects of myself or other people. Here, they are a troupe brought together by their attachment to a world of enchantment outside the home or everyday life. They embody a love of place that sparks the imagination and feeds the soul. The Willow House is a place of ideas, reverie and movement, where people and memories have passed through and are still passing through, turning to the trees, to the riverbank, to an animal companion.
The Attendant oil on cotton 20 x 25cm unframed 34 x 39cm framed £700
At Home oil on linen 24 x 30cm unframed 38 x 44cm framed £800
An Outlaw oil on linen 30 x 30cm unframed 44 x 44cm framed £800
The Schoolroom oil on linen 20 x 20cm unframed 34 x 34cm framed £650
Evening Willows oil on linen 20 x 20cm unframed 34 x 34cm framed £650
A View from The Edge oil on linen 30 x 30cm unframed 44 x 44cm framed £800
Willow People oil on linen 50 x 40cm unframed 64 x 54cm framed £950
On the Threshold oil on linen 30cm x 40cm 44 x 54cm framed £850
The Picnickers oil on linen 90 x 120cm unframed £2,200
The Writing Room oil on cotton 30 x 40cm unframed 44 x 54cm framed £850
The Summerhouse oil on cotton 40 x 40cm unframed 54 x 54cm framed £950
The Bridge oil on linen 24 x 30cm unframed 38 x 44cm framed £800
The House by the River oil on linen 50 x 70cm unframed 64 x 84cm framed £1,500
The Mantelpiece oil on linen 24 x 30cm unframed 38 x 44cm framed £800
The Blue Hour oil on linen 20 x 20cm unframed 34 x 34cm framed £650
The Captain oil on linen 50 x 70cm unframed 64 x 84cm framed £1,500
The Way Back oil on linen 40 x 40cm unframed 54 x 45cm framed £950
Points of View oil on linen 50 x 50cm unframed 64 x 64cm framed £1,200
Spots of Time oil on linen 30 x 40cm unframed 44 x 54cm framed £850
The Cave oil on linen 50 x 50cm unframed 64 x 64cm framed £1,200
Observing Spring oil on linen 50 x 40cm unframed 64 x 54cm framed £950
Ann McCay
Ann McCay graduated with a Fine Art degree from the University of the West of England in 1983. She moved to Spain where she worked as a professional artist before moving to London and then on to Shrewsbury where she works from her studio. She has been exhibiting with Twenty Twenty Gallery since 2012. Ann McCay is also an established portrait painter. She has exhibited in the B.P Portrait Competition and at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
“Being outside, observing people: walking, working, sitting, meeting on paths, pausing at gates. People looking at nature, engaged in their thoughts.” “The familiar is made strange through the use of intense colour and light, and inspires the viewer to create their own story.”
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Works are available for purchase on receipt of this catalogue and will also be available online from Saturday 18th June.
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The exhibition will be open 18th June to 16th July. Opening times: Wednesday to Saturday 10.30am to 4pm (Monday & Tuesday by appointment) Twenty Twenty Gallery 4 Quality Square, Ludlow SY8 1AR Ludlow railway station is a 10 minute walk to the gallery. Public car parking at Castle Street is a 2 minute walk.
Photography credit: Richard Hammerton Published by Twenty Twenty Gallery ©Twenty Twenty Gallery Ltd. May 2022 All rights reserved.
Back cover: The House by the River oil on linen 50 x 70cm unframed 64 x 84cm framed £1,500