SUSAN GATHERCOLE ISHBEL McWHIRTER & SIGRID MÜLLER
APRIL 2015
S U S A N G AT H E R C O L E , I S H B E L M c W H I R T E R & S I G R I D M ÜL L E R 17 APRIL - 10 MAY 2015
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SUSAN GATHERCOLE Susan was born in Glasgow in 1962 and graduated in fine art from Liverpool in 1984. She has lived and worked in Snowdonia for over 20 years. Her quiet and considered work describes small domestic objects, jugs, plates and mugs, seen from an intuitive, sometimes dream-like perspective. ISHBEL McWHIRTER RCA Ishbel was born in London in 1927 and was brought up in north Wales. She is a well-established artist who paints in her studio overlooking the Menai Strait, a panorama that has fascinated and inspired her. Her work is held in many public and private collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London and Victoria & Albert Museum. Ishbel says of her work ‘I try to grab a moment that will disappear forever. It could be a strange light on the water, an unlikely sky and hectic birds. Something simple can take my breath away and it’s enough to make me lunge into the working process. I try very hard to preserve that first snapshot vision that so excited me. I really cannot work any other way’ SIGRID MÜLLER Sigrid was born in Germany in 1962 and moved to Swansea in 1996. Her exquisite paintings have garnered a large following, and her work is in many collections including the National Museum of Wales. She was awarded the second prize in the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2014. Sigrid says of her work: ‘When I draw, I try to translate what I see into how it feels to the touch. It is purely emotional, something that resonates, stirs memories, often from my childhood when judgement did not come before objects were thoroughly observed and experienced. The background is as important as the subjects themselves. It provides an imagined space where they can live - suspended, with nothing to hold on to, or existing on seemingly firm ground. I choose intuitively, not searching, but coming upon, being stopped in my tracks by the promise in a closely furled iris bud, the dry rattle of a poppy head, or the soft ripeness of a plum’.
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BRIGHT DAY pastel and gouache 2015 63 x 55cm
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ADDRESS TO A ROBIN pastel and gouache 2015 28 x 36cm
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SHIP IN THE STARRY NIGHT PITCHER pastel and gouache 2015 32 x 38cm
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INK BLUE TEAPOT pastel and gouache 2015 35 x 55cm
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DARK FLOWERS AND YELLOW SAUCER pastel and gouache 2015 28 x 36cm
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HELLEBORE AND QUINCE pastel and gouache 2015 31 x 36cm
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JO’S GERANIUM pastel and gouache 2013 37 x 32cm
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SPRINGTIME PROMISES pastel and gouache 2015 45 x 73cm
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NARCISSUS AND STAG pastel and gouache 2015 41 x 38cm
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HARLEQUIN pastel and gouache 2015 25 x 39cm
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A GLIMPSE OF ALPHONSE mixed media 2015 30 x 38cm
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GREEN TEA AND LITTLE DONKEY pastel and gouache 2015 33 x 55cm
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LOOKING WEST pastel and gouache 2015 56 x 56cm
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SHORELINE pastel and gouache 2015 41 x 38cm
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SKILLET AND LITTLE HELLEBORE pastel and gouache 2015 41 x 79cm
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STILL LIFE WITH QUINCE pastel and gouache 2015 44 x 74cm
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WITCH HAZEL paste and gouache 2015 28 x 36cm
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PRIMROSE PIGEON pastel and gouache 2013 35 x 29cm
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HIRUNDO RUSTICA pastel and gouache 2015 43 x 75cm
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THREE SORTS OF SEAWEED mixed media 2015 41 x 75cm
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ISHBEL McWHIRTER RCA
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K.W. IN THE ORKNEY CHAIR oil on canvas 2004 92 x 71cm
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RED FLOWERS ON BLUE oil on board 2013 20 x 20cm
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LILIES IN A TEA POT oil on canvas 2012 51 x 61cm
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R.S. THOMAS GIVING A READING pastel 1997 23 x 16cm
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REGATTA, SAIL BOATS watercolour 2013 26 x 34cm
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CLOUDS ON THE STRAIT I pastel 2015 15 x 21cm
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CLOUDS ON THE STRAIT II pastel 2015 15 x 20cm
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REGATTA, WINDY DAY pastel 2013 30 x 43cm
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MIXED TULIPS watercolour 2014 23 x 33cm
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THE BLUE SAIL watercolour 2014 24 x 34cm
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K.W. IN HIS RED CHAIR watercolour 2002 46 x 33cm
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RED SAILS, WHITE SAILS pastel 2013 30 x 44cm
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BASIL ON AN ORANGE CUSHION watercolour 2003 18 x 23cm
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CAERNARFON CASTLE pastel 2012 22 x 29cm
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TULIPS IN THE WIND watercolour 2014 24 x 32cm
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DARK BLUE ON THE STRAIT pastel 2012 15 x 23cm
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BEAUMARIS BAY, WINTER pastel 2013 30 x 42cm
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PINK FLOWERS ON YELLOW watercolour 2010 43 x 61cm
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WINTER IN NANT FFRANCON pastel 2005 25 x 36cm
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PINK CLOUDS OVER SNOWDONIA pastel 2012 28 x 40cm
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PIER ON A GREY DAY pastel 2009 23 x 30cm
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SIGRID MÜLLER
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TULIPS mixed media 2015 39 x 53cm
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CHERRY LEAVES mixed media 2014 65 x 92cm
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DAMSONS mixed media 2014 39 x 43cm
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BLACKBERRY mixed media 2015 15 x 15cm
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SEASHELLS mixed media 2015 19 x 28cm
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MUSSELS WITH BARNACLE mixed media 2014 16 x 16cm
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GRAPE HYACINTHS mixed media 2011 44 x 65cm
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SILVER BIRCHES mixed media 2015 27 x 33cm
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DUTCH IRISES mixed media 2015 67 x 42cm
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TULIP mixed media 2014 20 x 16cm
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REEDS mixed media 2015 65 x 23cm
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TWO ROSES mixed media 2015 22 x 33cm
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SEASHELL mixed media 2015 8 x 9cm
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MUSSELS mixed media 2014 16 x 16cm
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THREE TULIPS mixed media 2015 33 x 45cm
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PALE IRIS mixed media 2015 29 x 8cm
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CHICKLING VETCH mixed media 2015 5 x 9cm
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NARCISSI mixed media 2015 46 x 20cm
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