A Blast Of Colour – Sussex In The Summertime is the latest exhibition at the Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Woodruffs Farm, Woodruffs Lane, Egdean, Petworth.
It brings together works by some of the gallery's favourite artists including John Hitchens, Tuëma Pattie, Pippa Blake, Jonathan Pocock, Min Maude, Tobit Roche, Marguerite Horner, Lin Sproule, Lilian Delevoryas, Sarah Bowman, Georgina von Etzdorf, Lu
cy Powell and David Humphreys.
Elspeth Bray, who runs the gallery, promised: "The exhibition is a real celebration of painting and traditional painterly skills exploring the joys of colour, landscape, still-life and figure painting."
The show is open daily 11am–5pm (evenings by appointment) throughout the next month.
More details on
moncrieff.bray@btinternet.com or
www.moncrieff-bray.com.
As for the artists, Elspeth offers the following guide:
* John Hitchens lived all his life in Sussex. Superb atmospheric landscapes dating from the 1970s and 80s of Duncton Hill and Selsey Marshes. Outstanding landscape painter of his generation.
* Pippa Blake, from Emsworth, moody expressionistic interpretation of Sussex landscape, series of paintings based on the theme of the road, and of journeying. Pippa is an inveterate traveller herself and still spends a lot of time in New Zealand where her late husband, Sir Peter Blake was born.
* Tuëma Pattie, bold expressionistic bravura brushstrokes, her work is a celebration of life and colour. Paintings include Arundel Castle from the water meadows and the Downs above Arundel.
* Min Maude, from Bosham.
Still life and flower paintings. Formerly a theatre designer, Min in her art offers a loose interpretation of nature and its patterns and colours. Her celebrated flower paintings are a personal response to the colours and forms found in nature. A series of large-scale still-lives celebrate the seasons of the year.
* Eliza Meath Baker, London based. Evocative, moody paintings of lambs and birds emerging from a dark background. They have a mysterious, emblematic quality which plays with the notion of representation.
* Tobit Roche. Tobit spent much of his childhood in India and now lives in London. His romantic paintings of mountainous landscape are a combination of his imagination and remembered places.
His painting technique involves layer upon layer of glazes to build up the luminous surface reminiscent of the techniques of the old masters.
* Marguerite Horner, London-based, regularly exhibits at the Royal Academy Summer show. Her restrained monochromatic paintings are ethereal and very beautiful. They have a luminescent almost lunar quality with ghostly echoes of another world. By contrast, her monochrome paintings conjure up a luminous, ghostly world.
* David Humphreys, Sussex-based, accepted for this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Glorious paintings of the wilds of Scotland. Two large-scale paintings of South Uist are included in the exhibition. He has an eye for narrowing down a composition to the essential details.
* Sarah Bowman is from the West Country. Heavily influenced by the St Ives School, Sarah juxtaposes her flower still-lives against an open window looking onto a garden or landscape.
These paintings bridge the gap between the domestic and outside worlds.
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