Saturday 27 July 2013

Ben Warner Special Collection

Sailing, Falmouth Bay
155mm x 245mm, oil on board
SOLD
We have been showing a collection of new works by Ben Warner over the last week and, I am happy to report very busy selling them.  The painting above was tiny and absolutely exquisite.
There are still a few left on the walls if you want to wander along to the gallery and have a look.  He is an artist whose work has the most mesmerising atmosphere and beautiful depth.
Falmouth Docks
180mm x 265mm, oil on board
£695
Timeless pieces full of a glowing luminous light, suggested shapes giving the familiar skyline of Falmouth a new aspect.
Greenbank towards Falmouth Docks
380mm x 640mm, oil on board
£1250
 
They really benefit from viewing in person as the layers of paint, washed back and worked up to produce a wonderful patina, are fascinating in themselves.
Early Evening, Falmouth Docks
720mm x 770mm, oil on board
£1750

If you cant visit the gallery, you can visit our website where you are able to browse and purchase with one click. We deliver world-wide and can gift wrap anything!  Own Art, the brilliant interest free credit system, can help spread the cost of a painting and can be completed over the phone.

Thursday 4 July 2013

Amanda Hoskin, Landscape Stories

Watching the Sun Going Down, Not a Sound
300mm x 295mm, oil on paper
£700
Tomorrow we open a new exhibition of paintings by Amanda Hoskin.  Cornwall in all its lovely guises.  Quiet evening sunsets, silent river stillness, beautiful light across the bay, images framed with the glories of Cornish hedgerows, overflowing with wild flowers.
Towards Menabilly, Daffodils and Sunlight
330mm x 695mm, oil on paper
£1150
Amanda has taken her paints and her sketchbooks and explored her favourite places.  Living in Fowey many of these are also places that DuMaurier used as inspiration for her writing.  Both artist and writer capturing the mystery and magic of this ancient landscape.

“ I decided to visit many of the areas described in Du Maurier’s novels. Seeing these places through her books and her imagination and then using the way I work to connect with the landscape has been a very interesting process. Her fascination with Cornish history has also provided a sense of the landscape of the past. Working on Bodmin Moor, time stands still where only the sky or light seems to change or Polridmouth Beach on a stormy morning with the sky a pinkish grey and the rocks black and menacing, images of Daphne Du Maurier characters would come to mind. For me she has put into words the landscape of Cornwall.”

Silence of the River Fowey
565mm x 640mm, oil on paper
£1750
It is a lovely collection of paintings, infused with a peaceful mood and created in a very fine, seemingly magical, manner.  Amanda's sensitive splattering and perfectly placed marks working themselves into light on water, flowers on the cliff tops, distant masts and faraway homes.
Please join us at the gallery for an evening view with wine and canapés, on Friday 5th July from 6pm.  The artist will be there and there will be a chance to see her brilliant sketchbooks, which will take your breath away!
There is also a hard backed book published to compliment this exhibition which contains many pages from her sketchbooks and the paintings that those sketches inform.  It costs £25.00 and can be brought with a few clicks from our web site or from the gallery.
Morning Light Fills Pont Pill, View from my Kitchen
205mm x 540mm, oil on paper
£800
The exhibition is part of the summer long series of shows under the title of "Cornish Light".  Amanda's work will be in the downstairs gallery from Friday 5th July until Wednesday 17th July.