PRESS RELEASE
27.11.17 | For immediate use
Monochrome
at The Old Coastguard, Mousehole
20 October 2017 - 8 January 2018
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HeartBeat| Etching with Chine Colle | Trudy Montgomery
Over Christmas and into the New Year, The Old Coastguard Hotel, Mousehole, presents Monochrome, an exhibition of prints and paintings by Cornwall-based artists Gillian Cooper, Catherine Harvey Jefferson, Trudy Montgomery and Paul Wadsworth.
The drawings, prints, paintings and mixed media works on show all explore the use of black and white, and occasionally one additional colour, and gain inspiration from the textures and forms of granite, windswept hawthorns, the wild seas of the Scilly Isles and the stormy skies of the Cornish landscape. All works are for sale, with prices ranging from £150 to £2000.
Of this exhibition, which is the seventh in an ongoing series of exhibition to be held at the hotel, manager Charles Inkin says "We are very excited to be showcasing these wonderful artists' works, that encapsulate the essence of this dramatic land around us at The Old Coastguard". The exhibition is open daily from 9.30am, until Monday 8 January.
The Old Coastguard
The Old Coastguard is a small, fourteen-bedroomed hotel on the seaside of the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole, with fantastic views across the Atlantic looking out to St Michael's Mount and St Clement's Isle. The hotel is managed by Eat Drink Sleep, who also manage West Cornwall's Gurnard's Head, the Tresco Estate, and The Felin Fach Griffin in Wales. The Old Coastguard has a traditional brasserie menu, serving lunch from 12.30pm - 2.30pm and supper from 6.30pm - 9pm.
The Old Coastguard Hotel, The Parade, Mousehole, Penzance TR19 6PR |www.oldcoastguardhotel.co.uk
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PRINT READY HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES:
Heartbeat | Trudy Montgomery
Exhibition enquiries: Frances Ford 01736 731 222 frances@oldcoastguardhotel.co.uk
Press enquiries: Philippa Hodson 07980 444 961 philippa.hodson@gmail.com
Restaurant and room bookings: 01736 731 222 enquiries@oldcoastguardhotel.co.uk
Editors Notes
Gillian Cooper
With the rural Cornish landscape as a starting point, Gillian's work combines abstract mark
making with figuration to explore moments of transition and metamorphosis. Through paintings, drawings and prints using charcoal, collage and oil on paper and gesso canvas, she explores both the physical and metaphysical qualities of landscape, intransience, memory and the shifting cycles of time and place.
"Between light and dark lie an endless range of subtle mid-tone shades that can be used to create dynamic shadows and highlights, whilst different colours complemented each other, the use of black and white has an intrinsic nature which pares every scene down to a palette of shades, lending itself to a different aesthetic, one which is about tone, form and texture." Gillian Cooper.
Gillian was born in London and studied at Camberwell, Bristol (BA Fine Art) and Cardiff (MA, Fine Art). She has lived in Cornwall since 1999 and is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. Her work has been published in ‘Revolver Art Cornwall' and ‘Catching the Wave, Contemporary Art in Cornwall' by Tom Cross. Gillian has exhibited nationally and internationally and in Cornwall including Revolver, Newlyn Gallery, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Openspace Gallery, Penryn, Badcocks Gallery and Great Atlantic Mapworks, Falmouth.
Catherine Harvey Jefferson
Catherine's studio on the North coast of West Penwith looks out over the high cliffs of Cape
Cornwall and out to the Scilly Isles to the West. She is a third-generation painter from the Harvey family in Cornwall and comes from a line of painters and creative people all of whom have been seafarers and the intense relationship from spending time at sea drawing, painting and studying has led to a life making marine works. Catherine Harvey Jefferson trained at Falmouth and Winchester Schools of Art and has exhibited widely from pre Graduation in Fine Art Painting and has work in private collections around the world.
www.catherineharveyjefferson.com
Trudy Montgomery
Joyful and uplifting, Trudy Montgomery's paintings portray an active vitality and freedom of spirit. Trudy's tendency towards pure, bold colour — often on an immersive scale —is influenced by the light and space of California where she lived for 14 years. She draws inspiration from her travels, both inner and outer, and sees her work as spiritual landscapes depicting the unseen. Working from a meditative state of action, she uses the possibilities of paint to convey in the abstract what is, so often, inexpressible via words.
Trudy was born in Bristol, England in 1970 and has studied in the UK, France and USA. Her work has been exhibited in London, Los Angeles and Berlin. She returned from the USA to the UK in 2012 and now works from her studio in West Cornwall.
Paul Wadsworth
Paul lives out on the moors of west Penwith, which has had a great impact on his painting. His studio is an old barn surrounded by hills and all aspects of ancient wild Cornwall; fields separated by stone walls, tumbling down granite buildings, ancient stones placed in the landscape centuries past and wild wiry trees blown and bent by southwesterly winds. The moors offer the most amazing beauty of a landscape hit by all the various types of weather that Cornwall throws at it.
All Paul's landscape works start on location, responding directly to the situation, the colour, the weather and the movement. They may not get finished immediately, as he likes to spend time with the paintings in the studio. It takes time to live with the painting and time to look at its rhythms of mark and colour, texture and narrative.
Paul was born in Norfolk, and studied Fine Art at Ipswich College of Art, before relocating to Cornwall where he completed his Fine Art Degree at Falmouth University. He has exhibits regularly locally and at the Campden Gallery, Bath Contemporary and the Strover Gallery. He has also travelled, painted and shown work in the Middle East for more than sixteen years.
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