SPRING TIDE

5th April - 5th May 2012

A bevy of artists drawn to the sea diversely interpret their love of all things maritime through painting, sculpture, ceramics and weaving.

JESSICA BRIGHT moved to Cornwall over 30 years ago following a career as a professional illustrator in London.  Fascinated by life at sea, her lively painting style brings atmosphere and a narrative element to watercolour and mixed media studies of working boats, harbours, estuaries and rivers.

Images of more paintings by Jessica can be seen on request to gilly@yewtreegallery.com

IMOGEN BONE was first lured to the coast of Cornwall whilst studying at Falmouth College of Arts.  For the last few years she has painted and taught at her studio on the Isles of Scilly.  Abundant subject matter for her light, impressionist style surrounds her, and vigorous brushwork gives a great sense of immediacy to her oil paintings.

MORAG MacINNES's glazed earthenware dishes bear mermaids and other fishy delights as decoration, bringing both humour and practical use to the table. Her skill in graphic line and glaze painting brings to life her interpretations of myths and archetypal imagery. She divides her time between her workshops in Spain and in Bristol.

To DEREK NICE ships and the sea have been life-long interests, not least those of mythology and legend.  Paring down to almost skeletal minimalism, he carves and constructs his imposing sculptural ships from found materials, including fragments of painted boats from the shores of Malta where he has a studio.

SUE MARSHALL weaves on a tapestry loom at her studio in West Cornwall, a technique she learnt as apprentice to Breon O’Casey. The colours she favours in the rag and wool rugs in SPRING TIDE reflect her Swedish origins as well as hues in sea and cliff-top around her home. The illustrated rug is woven from hand-spun wool, dyed in madder, gorse and Indigo.

CAROLYN WHITE is a plein-air painter of many years’ standing, with a deep love for Cornwall and its coastline.  Although living in the Cotswolds, she spends many weeks each year sketching and painting on the cliff tops of Penwith and the Lizard. Her simplification of form and rich colour give a sense of atmosphere and drama to her work.

Both a potter and painter, BEA DUXBURY is drawn to the boatyards and harbours around her Mousehole home for much of her subject matter.  She works in mixed media on paper, using ink, pencil, oil pastels and paint - and whatever seems appropriate to arrive at the multi-layered, colourful images she creates.

Describing his furniture as ‘rugged, risky, energetic~functional but sculptural’, PAUL ANDERSON allows free rein to the imagination!  Individual and eccentric his work may be, but it has enormous appeal and his thrones, tables and benches grace many a garden and interior room.  Living by the Atlantic in North Devon, he sources his materials from defunct barn roofs, boats, gates and fences.