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The gallery will be closed from 30th August - 6th September 2010
30th August to 6th September 2010
Cork Street
Foreword
The gallery will re-open on Monday 6th September 2010.
If you have any queries, please call 0207 437 5545 / 01628 486 565 or email info@messums...
The gallery will re-open on Monday 6th September 2010.
If you have any queries, please call 0207 437 5545 / 01628 486 565 or email info@messums.com.
Alan Cotton
15th September to 2nd October 2010
Cork Street
Alan Cotton: Hartland, Ireland, Piemonte & Provence
Â13.00
Fully illustrated catalogue (28.5 x 24 cm) with 64 pages and 53 colour illustrations, together with several drawings from the artist's sketchbook...
Foreword
In his forthcoming show at Messum’s, ever-popular knife-painter Alan Cotton returns to familiar stamping grounds—to the west coast of Ireland, where the cliffs are pounded by Atlantic rollers, and to the gentler climes and rich, warm hues of the Italian landscape around Piemonte...
In his forthcoming show at Messum’s, ever-popular knife-painter Alan Cotton returns to familiar stamping grounds—to the west coast of Ireland, where the cliffs are pounded by Atlantic rollers, and to the gentler climes and rich, warm hues of the Italian landscape around Piemonte. In Ireland, he was particularly captivated by the coastline of Donegal and the area around Cruit Island. The swift passage of clouds across the sky and the constantly changing light caused him to work with renewed energy and vigour, capturing the drama of this landscape.
The catalogue to accompany this superb collection of new paintings has a foreword by John Struthers, the Director of the Institute of Disciplinary Arts at the
University of Bath, and a short essay by Cotton’s biographer, the writer and art historian Jenny Pery.
Cotton’s continued success as a painter is marked this year with the publication of a new book by Jenny Pery. Alan Cotton: Giving Life a Shape (Halsgrove, 2010), reveals the way in which Cotton’s ideas take shape through drawing in landscape and show how these drawings become the seed corn from which he paints the knife paintings that have made his name. The book describes how the imperative to produce a body of work for an annual exhibition has shaped his life, and how his travels and charitable activities fit around these exhibitions. With interviews with collectors and reminiscences from friends, as well as pithy commentary from Alan himself, this book gives a comprehensive overview of Alan Cotton’s work through more than three decades and also contains much of interest for the would-be painter.
A signed and numbered silkscreen print produced in a limited edition of 250 will be available exclusively with a special slipcase edition of Giving Life a Shape at a price of £125.
20/21 British Art Fair
15th September to 19th September 2010
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7
Foreword
The 20/21 British Art Fair is the only fair specialising exclusively in modern and contemporary British art. Now in its 23rd year, the fair is held at The Royal College of Art – an establishment which is widely recognised as the spiritual home of modern and contemporary British art...
The 20/21 British Art Fair is the only fair specialising exclusively in modern and contemporary British art. Now in its 23rd year, the fair is held at The Royal College of Art – an establishment which is widely recognised as the spiritual home of modern and contemporary British art. Attended by 60 leading dealers, the fair offers an opportunity to experience the breadth and depth of art that Britain has produced over the last hundred years. Messum’s will be exhibiting a selection of works by Modern British and contemporary artists.
A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available. Please contact the gallery for more information.
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