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Land & Sea
27th February - 11th March 2009
 
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For Robert, painting the ever-shifting lights of the sea, sky and landscape equates to capturing a parallel range of human emotions. This is why so many make a human connection to his art. It is not just about decoration, pretty colours painted with great facility and flair, but a reflection of the artist's and our own changing moods and feelings. This exhibition provides an opportunity to view the mature painting of a true Cornish artist who knows the subject of the sea like the back of his hand but still finds new ways to express it and continues to give it new meaning.
   
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Summer Oak - Sheep
210mm x 260mm, oil on board,
£495
Summer Oak II
250mm x 250mm, oil on board,
£495
"Last summer I passed an open gateway and saw a dark presence in the landscape. An oak with sheep sheltering in the shade beneath. I made several paintings of this and other oaks, and sensed that they were almost worlds in themselves providing a home for birds, insects, animals etc."
Summer Oak
620mm x 670mm, oil on board,
£2100
   
     
     
     
Winter Trees - Rooks I
355mm x 255mm, oil on board, £560
Winter Trees - Rooks II
355mm x 265mm, oil on board, £560
Rooks and their Nests II
620mm x 670mm, oil on board, £2100
"A few years ago I visited France. We came to a small town in the evening. Chateaux Briant. The town seemed pretty deserted, but was alive with the noise of the calls of roosting rooks."
Rooks and their Nests I
610mm x 670mm, oil on board,
£2100
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Robert found himself captivated by old oak trees in Wales "a dark presence in the otherwise sunlit landscape."
"In late autumn the oaks seemed to glow in their autumn colours."

  Autumn Oak I
240mm x 280mm, oil on board,
£525
Autumn Oak II
250mm x 280mm, oil on board, £525
Autumn Oak III
230mm x 280mm, oil on board, £525
       
Oak Tree Autumn I
610mm x 670mm, oil on board, £2100
Oak Tree Autumn II
620mm x 670mm, oil on board, £2100
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"The Pine trees St. Ives Bay are a theme I have often returned to. Again, mysterious dark shapes, but seen against the sea, full of life and energy and moved by the wind, with the shadows of passing clouds."
Oak Tree Summer
250mm x 360mm, oil on board,
£595
Pine Trees, St. Ives Bay
670mm x 610mm, oil on board,
£2100
   
       
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