ABOUT:

Nicholas Wriglesworth presents a new series of his cityscape paintings alongside Kate Sherman's small landscapes and still life paintings.

Nicholas Wriglesworth provides the "Town" element with his photo-realist paintings of London and Brighton. These are often as viewed from a high point and rarely show any people.

Despite working from photographs, Nicholas paints freehand, without tracing or projecting images onto the canvas. Thus the viewer sees evidence of the painters hand at work, and allows the artist some freedom in the compositions.

The “Country” section is provided by Kate Sherman with her wonderful small oil paintings on board showing everyday country landscapes with great skill and a painterly touch.

The paintings, all oil on board no larger than 30 x 20 cm, originate form photographs she has taken from the surrounding Sussex landscape. This photogenic source is important because the paintings capture a reflective notion of memory, of the emotional distance between a real landscape and a photograph, between experience and longing.

The works have a poignant and quiet melancholy reminiscent of Edward Hopper, that is expressed both by the portrayal of sparse unpopulated landscapes containing elemental traces of man, and by her restrained palette which is often suffused in a reserved Northern European light of chalky blues and pink-blushed greys.

We will also show several of her Still Life flower paintings.

ARTISTS:
Nicholas Wriglesworth Oil on canvas
Kate Sherman Painting