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| Polzeath Bathers |
Did you know that there is a physical reaction when you look at art that you like. It feels a bit like butterflies, or that feeling when you almost trip downstairs, not totally pleasant, its a rush of adrenalin, Apparently, according to the science programme on Radio 4 yesterday, it is measurable! Your pulse quickens and your palms sweat!
Expect a lot of sweaty palms tonight, these paintings are exciting and masterful. There is a breathless ease with which Andrew Tozer manages to choose such sublime colours, those blues in a sparkling sea, one can imagine that they come out of the tube complete with the cry of gulls and the shouts of children playing.
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| Summer, Polzeth |
The same thing happens with "Summer Polzeth" Effortless brushstrokes become dozens of figures, a sweep of colour is easily a windbreak. It looks so easy and is actually so difficult. What hours of work allow someone to catch a shadow, to convey a fleeting moment with such unerring confidence?
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| Durgan Light, July. |
The colours in this body of work are surprisingly bright, like the acid green in Durgan Light, or the joyful grass in Birthday Party,
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| Birthday Party |
but they sit beautifully within the context of each painting. It is like a glorious summer day, playing on the beach then home for bedtime. Because after all the excitement of the sea, boats in the bay, clouds scudding across a blue evening sky, a shiny birthday party, we are taken home, where the breeze softly blows the curtains and a little girl plays with precious things
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| Precious Things |
and later, just before bedtime, there is a little time for drawing.
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| Drawings for Freddie. |
This is a wonderful exhibition by an artist who paints with his heart on his pallet.
Opening tonight 16th March and continuing until 28th March.
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