NEWCRAFTSMAN : Present & Future
paintings : Sarah Woods
sculptural works : Anthony Bryant
NEWCRAFTSMAN : Present & Future
paintings Sarah Woods sculptural works : Anthony Bryant
Our Present, Future exhibition brings together the works of two Cornish artistsSarah Woods, a painter, and Anthony Bryant, a sculptor working in wood.
In this collection Sarah Woods captures a feeling of softness from the ocean and the grounding forms of the landscape, with a focus on simplicity of colour and mark making. She works with the natural quality of canvas, painting with single, directional brush strokes inspired by the balance and harmony of the coastline.
Anthony Bryant is internationally recognised for his unsurpassed work in ‘green’ woodturning. He creates work which stretches the potential of his material to its furthest limits – both in scale and in his unrivalled ability to turn his wood to a breathtaking thinness.
sarah woods
‘ moving tides ’
“Moving Tides’ brings together a series of large-scale paintings and smaller studies from the west coast and St Ives, drawing on the elemental movement between the land and sea, the light captured in a breaking tide, and a sense of calm in spaces that are always in motion. Reaching the edges of the land and looking across the curving headland or a sweeping shore, this motion is visible in textural brush strokes, often sweeping across the surface of the canvas and from edge to edge.
There is a tactility to working by hand, and the process of each piece is considered and intuitive, having gathered inspiration from the landscape and then returned to the studio to create the collection. Each canvas has been slowly prepared before painting, and small works on paper are created as an intimate collection of studies to inspire the larger works as they form - capturing soft coastal hues of cerulean, sand and alabaster, and becoming familiar with balanced compositions of the land and sea.” - Sarah Woods, 2023
‘Over West Porthmeor’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Warm Hues from Sennen’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Between the Land and Sea, Gwynver’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Gwynver from the Cliffs’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Bright Morning Seascape, St Ives’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Early Morning Seascape, St Ives’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Morning Spring Tide, Porthmeor’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Sand Dune White, Sennen’, acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm, £2,250
‘Towards the Island, St Ives’, acrylic on canvas, 90x45cm, £1,650
‘Light Sky over Porthmeor’, acrylic on canvas, 75x75cm, £1,850
‘Clouds over the Horizon, Porthmeor’, acrylic on canvas, 75x75cm, £1,850
‘Soft Coastal Land in Umber, Porthmeor’, acrylic on canvas, 90x45cm, £1,650
‘West Coast Landscape, St Ives’, acrylic on canvas, 180x90cm, £3,200
‘Morning Light and Ocean’, acrylic on canvas, 180x90cm, £3,200
‘Low Tide Sand and Sky’, acrylic on canvas, 90x45cm, £1,650
‘Late Summer Waves, St Ives’, acrylic on canvas, 90x45cm, £1,650
‘Early Morning Low Tide, Porthmeor’, acrylic on canvas, 90x45cm, £1,650
‘Along the Coast towards Gwynver’, acrylic on canvas, 180x90cm, £3,200
anthony bryant
‘ sculpture ’
‘I am not concerned with function in my work. Instead, I prefer to explore the sculptural potential of the vessel at the physical limits of woodturning. My driving aim is to create powerful forms with poise and presence.’ Anthony
Bryant
“Wood can be made to resemble malleable clay modelled by hand and pinched into shape. Bryant, however, intervenes only with natural processes, drying slim wafers of oak so they warp into lithe and subtle folds. […] These are artful works. They make a smooth transition from workshop to metropolitan art gallery, and from observable effect into visual metaphors that stimulate the imagination. Lifting any vessel overturns the assumption of a wooden form necessarily being heavy. A thin, lightweight structure is the distinct feature of Bryant’s output. Sycamore turns on his lathe to an edge fine enough for light to penetrate while holly, a pale white wood with virtually no visible grain but liable to whirls of dark-coloured knots, can be milled to a width of one eighth of an inch. He has known about wood all his life.” Martin
Holman, Drift Magazine
‘Tall Ash V, 2023’, Wood, 51 h x 28 d cms (19.68 x 9.84 ins), £2,000
‘Tall Ash Vessel IV, 2023’, 50 h x 25 dia cms (19.68 x 9.84 ins) - sold
‘Yew Vessel X, 2023’, Wood, 33 x 22 cms (12.99 x 8.66 ins), £800
‘Tall Ash Vessel XI, 2023’, Wood, 53 x 29 cms (20.87 x 11.42 ins), £2,000
‘Yew Vessel VI, 2023’, Wood, 23 x 40 cms (9.06 x 15.75 ins) - sold
‘Yew Vessel VII’, Wood, 23 h x 40 d cms (9.06 x 15.75 ins) - sold
‘Wide Ash Bowl Vessel IX, 2023’, Wood, 26 x 70 cms (10.24 x 27.56 ins), £2,500
‘Yew Vessel XIII, 2023’, Wood, 36 x 36 cms (14.17 x 14.17 ins), £1,000
‘Large Elm Vessel, 2023’, Wood, 51 h x 57 d cms (20.08 x 22.44 ins), £ 3,000
‘Large Ash Vessel I, 2023’, Wood, 52 h x 54 d cms (20.47 x 21.26 ins), £ 3,000
‘Yew Vessel III, 2023’, Wood, 35 h x 35 d cms (13.78 x 13.78 ins), £2,000
