Emma Jeffryes - Rollers and Breakers

EMMA JEFFRYES

Cover: Many Waves Create White Water Acrylic on board 61 x 82 cm

EMMA JEFFRYES Rollers and Breakers

26 March – 5 May 2016

NEW CRAFTSMAN GALLERY 24 Fore Street · St Ives Cornwall TR26 1HE 01736 795652 www.newcraftsmanstives.com Wild Seas Acrylic on board

19 x 22 cm

The full exhibition can be viewed on our website All work for sale from receipt of this catalogue.

ROLLERS AND BREAKERS Twenty years on from her very first exhibition of paintings, held at the New Craftsman gallery, few contemporary artists are as closely associated with the town of St Ives as Emma Jeffryes. The abundance of brightly coloured flowers in spring, the fresh coastal colours of early summer, the triangular patterns of rooftops against rich blue skies and the impossibly bold shapes and colours of harbour boats in the summer sun are enduring themes in her work. The vivid, ever changing light and lively atmosphere of this famous seaside town are rendered with real affection in Emma’s distinctive, rainbow coloured palette while her broad, airy compositions speak of the endless open spaces that define West Cornwall’s unique landscape. Her style is distinct from other painters, combining as it does the historically important naïve style that has been associated with St Ives painting since Alfred Wallis and the high set horizons and luminous colour of contemporary Cornish painting. Perhaps most importantly, in their perceptive simplicity Emma’s paintings exude a pleasing familiarity, mirroring not so much the visual, but the sensory experience of time spent in St Ives. ‘There is an infinite amount of stimulus in St Ives and when I work I have to somehow tame this richness in my own mind, to refine it into finished pieces. The more I study the sea, the beach, the boats, birds and flowers, the more I want to delve beyond the obvious, to simplify the things I perceive right down to the bare bones.’

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Blossom Bursts above Rooftops Acrylic on board 67 x 100 cm 3

Crab Rock Seagulls Acrylic on board 48 x 61 cm 4

Rollers and Breakers Acrylic on board 75 x 100 cm 5

Lighthouses and White Water Acrylic on board 61 x 48 cm 6

Waves Breaking Acrylic on board 61 x 74 cm 7

Two Regatta Boats Acrylic on board 42 x 67 cm 8

Barnabas Acrylic on board

100 x 67 cm 9

Regatta Ships Acrylic on board 43 x 67 cm 10

Tall Ship and Accompanying Boats Acrylic on board 65 x 91 cm 11

Navigating Rocks Acrylic on board 21 x 25 cm

Yacht (at Tall Ships Regatta) Acrylic on board 19 x 23 cm 12

Rigging and Terraces Acrylic on board 77 x 100 cm 13

Harbour Beach, Tide Coming In Acrylic on board 70 x 102 cm 14

Blue Boat with Bright Fenders Acrylic on board 85 x 122 cm 15

Wave Patterns (with Cormorant) Acrylic on board 31 x 37 cm

Harbour Colours Acrylic on board 31 x 39 cm 16

Sea Colours (2) Acrylic on board 67 x 85 cm 17

September, Still Day Acrylic on board 58 x 48 cm 18

Porthmeor Beach with Dusky Pinks Acrylic on board 61 x 83 cm 19

Incoming Tide Acrylic on board 52 x 42 cm 20

Spring is in the Air Acrylic on board 51 x73 cm 21

Beach, End of Summer Acrylic on board 61 x 46 cm 22

Porthminster, Perfect in September Acrylic on board 61 x 87 cm 23

Small Sea Place Acrylic on board 32 x 26 cm 24

Harbour of Many Colours Acrylic on board 36 x 43 cm 25

Lighthouse Acrylic on wood panel 31 x 26 cm 26

Harbour of Many Blues (Winter) Acrylic on board 55 x 67 cm 27

Agapanthus and Blue Harbour Acrylic on board 37 x 42 cm 28

Porthminster, Autumn Acrylic on board 37 x 46 cm 29

Harbour Beach, Bright in Winter Acrylic on board 27 x 34 cm 30

Seabirds on Crab Rock Acrylic on board 39 x 48 cm 31

Little Harbour Blossom Painting Acrylic on board 19 x 24 cm

White Boat and Harbour Buildings Acrylic on board 18 x 22 cm 32

Smeatonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lighthouse Acrylic on board 22 x 18 cm 33

Blue Bay, White Boat Acrylic on wood panel

Porthmeor Acrylic on board 34

26 x 31 cm

20 x 25 cm

EMMA JEFFRYES Education 1992–1994

Royal College of Art

1989–1992

University of Middlesex

Selected exhibitions August 2015

Mixed Exhibition / Ainscough Contemporary, Dartmouth

April 2015