EMMA McCLURE
Yellow Flowers oil on board – 33 x 28cm
Emma McClure 15 – 25 February 2022 PREVIEW DAYS Thursday 10 February: 12-6 Friday 11 February: 12-6 Saturday 12 February: 11-4 The entire exhibition can also be viewed at www.thackeraygallery.com The exhibition continues until 1pm on 25 February 2022 All work is available to view and purchase as of now Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10am - 6pm, & Saturday, 11am - 4pm Private Appointments Available
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This collection includes paintings of a variety of different subjects but many are of themes that I return to repeatedly such as dogs and their owners, birds and flowers. The starting point for all my work is something I have seen and as I walk with my dog daily from home to my studio, it might be a chance encounter that inspires a painting, perhaps the image of a dog walker (p.7) that catches my eye or some birds, (p.8). At other times I make a more conscious decision to seek out subject matter of interest. I travel around the area of Cornwall where I live on the look out for an inspiring image such as the goose and gate, (p.5) seen in a local village or a chicken coop, (p.3) on a smallholding. A place I visit specifically to draw is a bird sanctuary called Paradise Park, (p.10) which is home to the flamingos in these paintings and birds of all sorts are a recurring theme, such as the wood pigeons that built a nest in the Buddleia outside my studio window, allowing me to observe, sketch and paint the brief transition from egg to fledglings, (backcover). One of my favourite subjects are flowers, (inside frontcover, p.4, p.11) which I enjoy painting for the possibilities of shape and colour they offer as well as the pleasure of observing nature at close hand.
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Little Blue Car II mixed media on card – 22 x 30cm
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Flamingos and Parasols at Paradise Park mixed media on canvas – 100 x 100cm
Chicken Patch oil on canvas – 100 x 110cm
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Spring Flowers oil on canvas – 61 x 76cm
Pugs in Pink oil on board – 23 x 30cm
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Nesting Rooks mixed media on canvas – 50 x 50cm
Fledglings oil on board – 28 x 33cm
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Collie in the Red Van oil on wood – 33 x 40cm
Winter Coat oil on wood – 23 x 30cm
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Flamingos on Mud Islands, Paradise Park mixed media on paper – 57 x 83cm
Mug with Spring Flowers oil on canvas – 30 x 30cm
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The Nestlings oil on board – 25 x 27cm 14
Goose and Gate oil on canvas – 61 x 76cm 15
BIOGRAPHY
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Born 1962
London
EDUCATION 1980-81 1981-84 1984-85
Falmouth School of Art Winchester School of Art, BA Hons Fine Art Chelsea School of Art, MA Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1986 1986/87/92 1989/93 1994-2018 2019
Angela Flowers Gallery, London ‘ Artist of the Day’ Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London Wolf at the Door Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance
SELECTED MIXED EXHIBITIONs FROM 1986 - PRESENT New Contemporaries, ICA; Contemporary Art Society, Art Market, Smiths Gallery, London; Jonathan Clark Gallery, London; Mothers and Daughters, Cadogan Contemporary; Wilson Stephens Fine Art, London Art Fair; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Piers Feetham Summer Exhibition, Aldeburgh; Cadogan Contemporary Millennium Exhibition; Thompsons Gallery London, Annual Exhibition; Chase Charity exhibition, RCA; Piers Feetham Gallery, London,‘Thames 2002’; Singer and Friedlander/ Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Gallery, London; Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall - Two person exhibition; Thompsons Gallery, London, Three person exhibition; Thompsons Gallery London , ‘The Cornish Show’; Piers Feetham Gallery, Cornish Painting - A Family Quartet; Thompsons Gallery, London, Four person exhibition; Cornwall Contemporary, Two Person Exhibition; Eastwood Fine Art, Spring Exhibitions; 20/21 British Art Fair, London, Gray Modern and Contemporary Art; Thompsons Gallery London, Howard de Walden Exhibition; Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Summer exhibition; Gray Modern and Contemporary Art- London Art Fair; Gray Modern and Contemporary Art- Works on Paper Fair, London; David Simons Gallery, Bath; Lemon Street gallery, Truro, Spring Show; The Old Mill, Hamatethy, West Country Exhibition and London Show; Lemon Street Gallery - London Art Fair; Cornwall Contemporary Spring, Summer and Winter exhibitions; Ainscough Contemporary, Dartmouth, Mixed exhibition; Cotswold Contemporary, Cirencester, Mixed Exhibition; Thackeray Gallery, Kensington
Above: Garden by the Sea – oil on canvas – 60 x 60cm Front Cover: detail: The Nestlings – oil on board – 25 x 27cm First Published in 2022 by Thackeray Gallery Ltd, 18 Thackeray Street, Kensington, London. Copyright © 2022 Thackeray Gallery Ltd
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Yellow Flowers – oil on board – 45 x 50cm