Cornwall's Influence on the Modernist Tradition

Cornwall’s Influence on the Modernist Tradition

Medici Gallery

Margaret Crook ‘Fistral Waters’ oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm

Cover: Elaine Pamphilon ‘Dark Wooded Hill, Bodmin’ (detail) mixed media on canvas 50 x 100 cm

Cornwall’s Influence on the Modernist Tradition PA INTINGS SCULPTURES CERAMICS 2 April – 7 May 2014

Medici Gallery

5 Cork Street, London W1S 3LQ

020 7495 2565 info@medicigallery.co.uk www.medicigallery.co.uk

Sarah Bowman

‘Harbour View’ oil on board 50 x 70 cm

Sarah Bowman lives and works in Totnes, Devon, where she takes inspiration from her rural surroundings. Having studied at Falmouth Art College, she has in the past been firmly linked to the St Ives School. Sarah Bowman’s work is much sought after and she has gained widespread recognition, including showing at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and gaining the Mary Fedden award at the Royal West of England Academy.

Selected Exhibitions: Medici Gallery, London White Space Art,Totnes Wren Gallery, Burford Ainscough Contemporary Art, London Lemon Street Gallery,Truro

Awards: Winner of the Mary Fedden Award, Royal West of England Academy Finalist, 2001 Noble Grossart painting prize

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Margaret Crook “In my paintings there is a breaking up of subject matter – a simplification and elimination of detail.

The images hover between representation and abstraction.”

Margaret Crook was born and brought up in Lancashire; she now shares her time between Cornwall and Oxfordshire. Her paintings on paper and canvas involve complex layering of varied media from conte crayon to acrylic and oil based paints. The inspiration of the Cornish environment is inherent in

‘The Land Beyond’ oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm

her work which explores the interrelationship of forms and how they link to create balance and visual harmony.

Fine Art (BA Hons) Falmouth College of Art 1998 2001

Selected Exhibitions: Medici Gallery, London Askew Art, Henley on Thames BA (Hons) Degree Show, Falmouth College of Art

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Victor Stuart Graham “I was born next to the sea in Newhaven, Sussex. I respect its power, its changing colours and moods, it inspires me immensely. I am extremely fond of wood and my work is dictated by found materials. I collect specially selected pieces of driftwood that have an inherent boat shape trapped within their form; all I do then is release and enhance the boat.”

Victor trained as a graphic designer. He followed this with an MA at the Royal College in Textiles. Since then his work has taken many diverse forms, from teaching to painting municipal railings.

Victor has been successfully showing at Medici Gallery for over ten years.

‘Cornish Cottages’ mixed media

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‘Cornish Cottages’ mixed media

Laurel Keeley Laurel Keeley came to ceramics late; it was while working on a PhD in American Literature that she finally left the academic world to pursue Vocational Ceramics at Exeter College of Art and Design.

Her pieces have a sense of place, not only from the choice of colours and quality of line, but also from the element of narrative in the imagery; the pot may be a response to one visit to a location, or the product of many visits, photographs and sketches.The paintings and pots are part of the same thinking, expressed in a different way.

In 2003 Keeley received a Major Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain, which enabled further professional development into Etching and Stone Carving.

Vocational Ceramics at Exeter College of Art and Design BA (Hons) English and American Arts at Exeter University

Memberships: Devon Guild of Craftsmen Founder Member of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts

Stoneware pot H 90 cm

Stoneware slab pot 44 x 28 cm

‘Exeter Canal’ acrylic and charcoal on paper 71 x 60 cm

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John Maltby John Maltby, born in Linconshire in 1936, is one of Britain's most respected and collected artists and has been working in clay for over 50 years. He taught painting for two and a half years before working with David Leach at Bovey Tracey (1962-1964), whose imagination and philosophy made a profound impression. In 1964, he started his own workshop in Devon.

Having trained with Leach in the Anglo-Oriental tradition he realized on reflection that he had little identification and interest with the great ceramic traditions of China, Japan and the East and was more familiar and excited by Western Artists - Picasso, Klee, Moore & Nicholson and the primitive Wallis. His work has gone through several distinct stylistic periods taking him away from functional pots towards the making of more individual sculptural pieces.

Maltby is widely represented in a number of public collections, including the V&A in London and others in Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Belfast, Exeter, Leicester, and Faenza in Italy and Hamburg in Germany. He has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and USA. Sculpture at Leicester College of Art Sculpture at Goldsmiths College Craftsmen Potters Association of Great Britain British Crafts Centre Advisor to the Leach Archive at the Holbourne of Menstrie Museum, Bath

‘Angel’ ceramic 34cm H

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‘Cat’ ceramic 20 cm H

‘Figures and trees’ ceramic 20cm W x 28cm H

‘Boat People’ ceramic 30cm W x 30cm H

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Christopher Marvell “I am passionate about sculpture. I enjoy the hard physical work and atmosphere of the foundry and the spirit of making things work.”

Christopher Marvell was born in 1964 and has been living and working both in Cambridge and St Ives, Cornwall, with painter Elaine Pamphilon since 1986.

‘Woman's Head (Turning)’ bronze, edition III 61 cm high

‘Birdbath’ bronze, edition VII 50 cm x 43 cm H

Selected Exhibitions: Medici Gallery, London Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Godfrey & Watt, Harrogate Beaux Arts, Bath Ainscough Contemporary Gallery, London Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge Bircham Gallery, Norfolk Belgrave Gallery, St Ives Rebecca Hossack Gallery - London, Santa Fe,Toronto ‘Sea Path, Salt Lines & Birdwatching’, Ainscough Contemporary Art, London ‘Boats, Birds, Boys and Beasts’, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives

Selected Collections: P&O, Olga Polizzi, Anita Roddick, Cambridge University, Addenbrookes Hospital, Hintlesham Hall, Lord Burns, Cambridge Science Park, Jeffrey Archer, Edward Bond, Balleymaloe Cookery School - Cork, Everard Reed Johannesburg, River Island Company

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‘Proud Bird’ bronze, edition V 37 x 34 cm

Rory McLauchlan

‘Summer Sunset on Roseland’ oil on board 102 x 112 cm

“I am trying to capture the essence and character of a particular place through the spontaneous use of colour, line and shape to create new forms.”

Scottish artist Rory McLauchlan, lives and works in Ayrshire. His connection to western Scotland inspires the majority of his subject matter. Chiefly he takes his inspiration from the Ayrshire landscape, where he portrays the wildness of his surroundings. His Still Life paintings too have a brilliant understanding of colour and form, whilst retaining a naive quality.

Selected Exhibitions: Medici Gallery, London Royal Glasgow Institute The Mitchell Library, Glasgow RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow Paisley Art Institute Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh

Rory Mclauchlan spent time painting in Falmouth, Truro, St Mawes and surrounding district, in the summer of 2012.

Graphic Design Diploma Cardonald College, Glasgow, 1980 BA (Hons) Fine Art, St Martin’s School of Art, London, 1982 – 1985

Selected Competitions: Aspect Prize, Paisley Paisley Art Institute Drawing Competition ‘Falmouth Crabber’ oil on board 40 x 40 cm

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Bob Osborne

‘After the Fire’ mixed media 63.5 x 56 cm

Bob Osborne came to art late, beginning in 1998 to paint and make relief constructions from driftwood, sacking and other found objects. Osborne has studios in St Ives and London. For 3 years he was studio assistant to his friend Sandra Blow in her later years.

Fine Art and Literature (BA Hons) University of East Anglia 1972-1974

Selected Exhibitions: Medici Gallery, London Katherine House Gallery, Marlborough New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham joint show with Sandra Julian Lax, at the 20/21 Art Fair Royal West of England Academy Exhibition, Bristol

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‘Back to Zennor’ mixed media 56 x 51 cm

Elaine Pamphilon “When I paint, I choose things I love, a wild cliff top walk with spectacular views, a gorgeous bunch of sweet smelling hedgerow flowers with some found objects, a glimpse of birds in my garden or cascades of greenfinches falling from the cherry tree, and wide open beaches that have their own mood and colour depending on the time of day.”

‘Dark Wooded Hill, Bodmin’ mixed media on canvas 50 x 100 cm

Elaine Pamphilon paints in watercolour, collage, acrylic, and mixed media, employing bright, vibrant colour, in a confidently free, painterly style. She is inspired by interests ranging from music and literature to still life and landscape - particularly that around the fishing harbour and beaches of her studio in St Ives in Cornwall. She splits her time between her studios in Cambridge and St Ives, with the sculptor Christopher Marvell.

Elaine has been successfully showing at Medici Gallery for the last 8 years

‘St Ives’ mixed media on canvas 80 x 120 cm

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Sarah Purvey Sarah Purvey gained both her BA and MA qualifications at Bath Spa some twenty years apart receiving her MA in ceramics in 2009. On completing the Masters programme Sarah remained a Resident Artist at the University's Ceramic Research Centre in Wiltshire, the former home of Bath Academy of Art. Her clay vessels are inspired by the landscape, and materials around her.

Sarah is a full member of the Devon Guild in Bovey Tracey and her work received the panel award of First Prize in the Pound Pill Open in October 2010. Sarah works in partnership with Bath Spa University leading ceramic enrichment programmes for 6th form A-level students within Wiltshire secondary schools and has been a guest speaker on the Contemporary Context module of the Ceramics Masters Programme at Bath Spa University.

Selected Exhibitions: 2014 Medici Gallery, London Cavin-Morris Gallery New York, 2013 Panzer Trotman Fine Art Hatfield House – Art In Clay The Russell Cotes Museum with The Arthouse Gallery Solo Show St Ives- New Craftsman Gallery Quest Gallery Bath with Ione Parkin RWA 2012 Sara Preisler Gallery Solo Show Gallery 28 Cork Street with the Katharine House Gallery Hilton Fine Art Gallery, Bath Larkhall, Bath with Ione Parkin RWA 2011 Open Show, Pound Pill Arts Centre, Corsham Solo Ceramic, Cartshed Gallery, Shaftesbury Ceramics- Nine Artists at Corsham, Corsham Court Gallery (BSU)

Fine Art (BA Hons) University College Falmouth 2009 – 2012

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‘Landscape Series Echo’ ceramic 47 cm H x 45 cm W x 38 cm D

Pippa Young “My aim is to express something of the transience and vulnerability of the human condition as well as the surreal and fragmented nature of the world around us.”

Pippa Young lives and works in Cornwall; known for its creative calling to artists, Pippa is inspired from both her creative surroundings but also includes historical nuances to her work. Her dedication to the ‘figure’ is a continuing fascination for her.

Fine Art (BA Hons) University College Falmouth 2009 – 2012

‘Goldfinch 1’ oil on panel 50 x 50 cm

Selected Exhibitions:

‘Youth’ oil on panel 24 x 30 cm

2013 Suspended Sentences, REN Fine Art and Bucca, Newlyn Summer Show, Beaux Arts, Bath ‘Persistent Illusion’ Solo Show, Bucca Gallery Newlyn Spring group show, Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham 2012 Winter Bonanza, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives Launch Collective,The Crypt, St Ives Stellar Graduates, Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth Small Paintings, Bucca Gallery, Newlyn Drawings, Bucca Gallery, Newlyn Rising Stars, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth bareSPACE,Vyner Street Gallery, London Resonate, Summer House Gallery, Marazion BA (Hons) Degree Show, University College Falmouth 2011 Red Dot 2, Falmouth Poly 2010 Traces (solo show), New Street Gallery Penzance

Competitions: 2013 Shortlisted for ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ (Beers Lambert/Thames Hudson) Shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition Shortlisted for NOAC exhibition 2012 Shortlisted for NOAC exhibition Shortlisted for RPS exhibition

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020 7495 2565

info@medicigallery.co.uk

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