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‘Patterns of Friendship’
16th May – 6th June 2020

Annie Ovenden and The Arnolds

Annie Ovenden’s recent paintings are shown here alongside work by her friends and fellow former members of the Brotherhood of Ruralists, the late Ann and Graham Arnold.

 

Exhibiting alongside will be Tamsin Abbott showing new work created specially for this show. It is by Tamsin’s kind permission that we are able to exhibit selected works from the estate of Ann and Graham Arnold.

Also part of this exhibition are Anna Lambert’s landscape inspired pots. Anna  has developed her hand built forms to reflect a connection with her locality and to the fragile and constantly changing environment, responding to places as diverse as wild bleak moorland and bird-filled hedgerows.

 

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INNTRODUCTION BY IAN MASSEY

In a continuation of her long engagement with the bucolic countryside of north Cornwall, Ovenden returns to her favoured subject of trees, in depictions both celebratory and elegiac. Her landscapes are transfigured by heightened colour, and by judicious effects of light and shadow, metaphors for transience. A subtle vocabulary of painted marks establishes a gentle kinesis that captures the movement of sunlight and air on pasture and foliage.

Light is at its most dramatic in paintings such as Restormel Castle, its slender foreground trees as though strobe-lit in early morning sun, and in the illuminated memorial landscape of Those were the Days my Friends.

The visionary romance of such pictures is also found in Ann Arnold’s, certainly those with an implied narrative: the watercolour study of the journeying John Clare for instance, or the idealised dream landscape of The Merlin. Poetry exists too in the handful of highly sensitive drawings by Graham Arnold shown here, his tiny and intimate Wedding Photos reminiscent of a Morandi etching.

The work of all three of these artists arises from an English tradition whose antecedents include Samuel Palmer and John Nash, a tradition that now assumes a greater and more urgent poignancy under present circumstances.

Ian Massey, April 2020

Annie Ovenden

Annie Ovenden in Shropshire
Annie Ovenden in Shropshire
Mumeration Over Lanhydrock Park

Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park
Oil on canvas 24” x 36”
Annie Ovenden

Mumeration Over Lanhydrock Park-II

Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park II
Oil on canvas 24” x 36”
Annie Ovenden

Owl Amongst The Trees (white-out)

Owl amongst the Trees
Oil on Board 24” x 29”
Annie Ovenden

Boconnoc Deer Park

Boconnoc Deer Park
Oil on Board 23” x 19”
Annie Ovenden

Beside The Camel Trail

Beside the Camel Trail
Oil on board 10” x 12”
Annie Ovenden

View Across The Valley

View across the Valley
Oil on board 10” x 12”
Annie Ovenden

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Graham and Ann Arnold

Graham and Ann Arnold
Graham and Ann Arnold
Wedding Photographs

Wedding Photographs
Pen and Ink on paper 10 x 10cm
Graham Arnold

Girl Viewing the Eclipse

Girl Viewing the Eclipse
Photo coloured pencil 18 x 40cm
Graham Arnold

Drawing of a Model

Drawing of a Model
Pencil on paper 30 x 58cm
Graham Arnold

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The Broken Wall

The Broken Wall
Watercolour 26 x 19cm
Ann Arnold

Woman on the Bridge

Woman on the Bridge
Watercolour 30 x 20cm
Ann Arnold

The Merlin

The Merlin
Oil on canvas 50 x 60cm
Ann Arnold

White Horse in a French Field

White Horse in a French Field
Watercolour and charcoal 20 x 22cm
Ann Arnold

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