PRESS RELEASE
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Suki Wapshott | Featured Artist
1stto 29thNovember 2021
Suki Wapshott | Quintessence, June in Polzeath
This November, Whitewater Contemporary presents an exhibition by painter Suki Wapshott. Her new collection reflects the artistic ideology of the great Romantics - painters, writers and poets who have experienced the joy and heartbreak of real life, and then poured that energy into works inspired by the sublime beauty of the natural world and its relationship with human spirituality. In particular, these paintings explore concepts of ‘inscape' and ‘instress', which poet Gerard Manley Hopkins termed as ‘the unification of the characteristics of each thing or place'. In the great tradition of Romanticism, Suki's love of both literature and landscape have always been the driving force behind her work. This collection of 18 paintings, inspired by the silence of the setting sun, or a squall rushing in on a sudden breeze, demonstrates her unique passion and talent for emotive landscape.
Suki graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature, before moving to Cornwall's dramatic North Coast and using the inspiration she gained from her studies of Medieval and Anglo-Saxon poetry to become a painter of impassioned, semi abstracted landscapes. She lives and works in an ocean view house above the spectacular beach at Polzeath, where Hayle Bay and the surrounding coastline are her creative focus.
Whitewater Contemporary, The Parade, Polzeath, PL27 6SR.
www.whitewatercontemporarygallery.co.uk|art@whitewatercontemporary.co.uk
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Quintessence, June in Polzeath
Editors Notes
Whitewater Contemporary
Whitewater Contemporary specialises in painting, print, sculpture, studio ceramics and craft by Cornwall's leading contemporary artists, all on show at our beautiful ocean front space in Polzeath, Cornwall.
Our adjacent sister venue, Whitewater Gallery, offers an extensive collection of limited-edition prints, photography, pottery and handcrafted jewellery.
Whitewater Contemporary, The Parade, Polzeath, Cornwall PL27 6SR
art@whitewatercontemporary.co.uk|www.whitewatercontemporary.co.uk
For further press information or additional images contact Mercedes Smith at Fine Art Communications director@fineartcommunications.co.uk / Tel 07825 270235 / www.fineartcommunications.co.uk