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23/04/2008 - 10/05/2008
Messum's Cork Street
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For 250 years East Anglia can claim to have drawn more and better artists than any other part of the country – and Messum’s is now staging a show of paintings and carvings by six of the recent best.
MARY NEWCOMB needs no introduction as a singularly poetic painter of the rural scene, with imagery from her life as a Waveney Valley farmer’s wife admired by everyone from Ben Nicholson to Mary Fedden. And although GUY TAPLIN has carved out a name for himself as our leading sculptor of birds, he is now fledging to human figures of lithe and haunting grace – dancers, walkers and recliners recalling voodoo dolls and fertility symbols, or 3D Modiglianis and Giacomettis.
SIMON CARTER has transcribed the topography of his native Tendring peninsula into scintillating paintings, based on hundreds of drawings and watercolours but then blurred and obliterated so that water, mud and buildings dissolve in brilliant light. And painter-sculptor DEREK NICE has taken the spirit of ancestral West Mersea fishermen into boat-rife abstracted pictures and models in driftwood picked up from north Norfolk to the eastern Mediterranean.
Shipwright turned depicter of boats and ports in paintings and prints, JAMES DODDS sails his poignant and powerful imagery from remembered boatyards into an ocean of myth and mystery. And HELEN NAPPER appears to inhabit a shack just off the coast of Aldeburgh where she paints a castaway’s finds – battered furniture, plastic jugs, bananas - in sublime colour.
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23/04/2008 - 10/05/2008
Online
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Messum's has long been noted for casting a fresh light on fine art executed across these islands over several centuries. Starting with Newlyn and St Ives in the far west of Cornwall, we have turned in the last 15 years to England's easterly edge - to artists flocking to places such as Southwold, Walberswick and Aldeburgh in the wake of Philip Wilson Steer and other pioneering English Impressionists. Besides our regular East Anglian-focused exhibitions, work by stellar talents such as Arnesby Brown, Cedric Morris, Mary Potter and William Bowyer is usually in stock. We also handle the Peggy Somerville, Margaret Green and Lionel Bulmer studio estates. In April works by all these names will be displayed alongside the six-artist show East Anglian Influences and can be bought on our website.
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