Mungo Powney & James Newton Adams

Mungo Powney & James Newton Adams 26th March - 20th April 2011

Mungo Powney Mungo Powney now resides in Normandy but loves to travel. He has recently visited Vietnam and Spain for this new collection of paintings as well as using a few similar surroundings in Normandy.

Mungo loves the onlooker to feel colour rather than simply observe his composition. Whilst painting he constantly plans several layers of different colours in order to match the power of the scene absorbing both the light and ambience which exists in what in he loves to capture at that precise moment of time.

The subjects Mungo chooses are very important to him so that when he works he feels free to change the composition and objects in order to create an emotional harmony. The result timeless paintings with a superb colour palette.

Front Cover : Tip Top Tailor Top : Dusk Bottom : Winter Interior

James Newton Adams Working as a sculptor and painter, James explores his experience of the land and seascapes of Scotland as well as the people, animals and objects that inhabit them, often highlighting tensions in their relationships with each other and with the landscape itself. He works from memories of such places, drawing upon a narrative within. This allows him to build a composition around a theme - the title will as often inform the work as the other way round.

The perspectives in his work are the perspectives of memory, in which different stages of a narrative may be seen simultaneously or a scene may be viewed from above as if in a dream or a map.

Engaging the viewer in this way he provokes an interaction with the work, unleashing a once dormant childhood appreciation or stirring a haunting memory within.

Top : Behind The Harbour Wall Bottom : Shock Of The Flock

The Darkside of the Hill

Crossing The Line

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