Annie Ovenden and The Arnolds ‘ PAT T E R N S O F F R I E N D S H I P ’
16th May to 6th June 2020 TW ENT Y T W E NTY G A L L E RY L U D LOW
Front cover: The Swallows Depart Oil on board 24” x 36”. Annie Ovenden
Annie Ovenden and The Arnolds ‘PATTERNS OF FRIENDSHIP’
16th May to 6th June 2020 O N- L I NE :
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Annie Ovenden in Shropshire
Patterns of Friendship Annie Ovenden’s recent paintings are shown here alongside work by her friends and fellow former members of the Brotherhood of Ruralists, the late Ann and Graham Arnold. In a continuation of her long engagement with the bucolic countryside of north Cornwall, Ovenden returns to her favoured subject of trees, in depictions both celebratory and elegiac. Her landscapes are transfigured by heightened colour, and by judicious effects of light and shadow, metaphors for transience. A subtle vocabulary of painted marks establishes a gentle kinesis that captures the movement of sunlight and air on pasture and foliage. Light is at its most dramatic in paintings such as Restormel Castle, its slender foreground trees as though strobe-lit in early morning sun, and in the illuminated memorial landscape of Those were the Days my Friends. The visionary romance of such pictures is also found in Ann Arnold’s, certainly those with an implied narrative: the watercolour study of the journeying John Clare for instance, or the idealised dream landscape of The Merlin. Poetry exists too in the handful of highly sensitive drawings by Graham Arnold shown here, his tiny and intimate Wedding Photos reminiscent of a Morandi etching. The work of all three of these artists arises from an English tradition whose antecedents include Samuel Palmer and John Nash, a tradition that now assumes a greater and more urgent poignancy under present circumstances. Ian Massey, April 2020
Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park Oil on canvas 24” x 36” Annie Ovenden
Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park II Oil on canvas 24” x 36” Annie Ovenden
Owl amongst the Trees Oil on board 24” x 29” Annie Ovenden
Beech Tree Trio Oil on board 10” x 12” Annie Ovenden
River Island - Autumn Oil on board 10” x 12” Annie Ovenden
Beside the Camel Trail Oil on board 10” x 12” Annie Ovenden
View across the Valley Oil on board 10” x 12” Annie Ovenden
Here Comes Summer Oil on board 24” x 33” Annie Ovenden
Fir at Delamore Oil on board 24” x 33” Annie Ovenden
Restormel Castle Oil on board 24” x 30” Annie Ovenden
Bocconnoc in November Oil on board 18” x 24” Annie Ovenden
Boconnoc Deer Park Oil on board 23” x 19” Annie Ovenden
Autumn at Wenmouth Oil on board 12” x 10” Annie Ovenden
Those were the Days my Friends Oil on board 28” x 38” Annie Ovenden
Wedding Photos Pen and Ink on paper 10 x 10cm Graham Arnold
Graham and Ann Arnold
Girl Viewing the Eclipse Photo coloured pencil 18 x 40cm Graham Arnold
Alice Balancing Pencil 30 x 58cm Graham Arnold
Moths Pencil on board 16 x 23cm Graham Arnold
Drawing of a Model Pencil on paper 30 x 58cm Graham Arnold
Polyanthus for Mother Watercolour 20 x 30cm Ann Arnold
Under the Wood Watercolour 10 x 14cm Ann Arnold
The Merlin Oil on canvas 50 x 60cm Ann Arnold
Woman on the Bridge Watercolour 30 x 20cm Ann Arnold
The Broken Wall Watercolour 26 x 19cm Ann Arnold
The Crossing Pastel 23 x 28cm Ann Arnold
Stormy Sunlit Mountain Pastel 26 x 20cm Ann Arnold
White Horse in a French Field Watercolour and charcoal 20 x 22cm Ann Arnold
Study for John Clare Watercolour 19 x 13cm Ann Arnold
Portrait of Graham Arnold (unfinished) Oil on canvas 50 x 60cm Ann Arnold
Twenty Twenty Gallery We have been exhibiting Annie Ovenden for 15 years with occasional group shows with her old friends and fellow artists Ann and Graham Arnold. Annie’s paintings and drawings of trees and inland Cornwall are renowned with collectors from around the world. Based in Shropshire, the Arnolds exhibited regularly in London and with Silk Top Hat gallery in Ludlow, now Twenty Twenty Gallery. Whilst Ann and Graham have sadly passed away it is true to say that friendship lives on and this exhibition ‘Patterns of Friendship’ with Annie Ovenden keeps their memories alive. Thanks Thanks to the Estate of Graham Arnold cour tesy of Tamsin Abbott who has made the exhibition possible.
COVID-19 Until fur ther notice this exhibition will be on-line at: www.twenty-twenty.co.uk However, if we are able, we will hang the exhibition at the gallery in 4 Quality Square, Ludlow with visits by appointment only. Please do email or call us on the following telephone number to arrange a viewing. We shall be updating our website regularly with the latest information. Contact Email: info@twenty-twenty.co.uk Telephone: 07770 752902
Back cover: The Merlin Oil on canvas 50 x 60cm Ann Arnold
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