Linda Landers, “Home”, oil on canvas, 76×50.5cm.
Linda Landers: Memories, Dreams, Visions – Earth and Beyond. 12 -23 June 2021
A sense of magical realism pervades Linda Landers’ work where past memories meet the present, and landscapes and figures take on an aura of wonder and mysticism.
Linda draws inspiration for her paintings, etchings and wood engravings from nature and the people around her, as well as from NASA space missions which Landers heard about as a child, when she met Buzz Aldrin.
A sense of magical realism pervades Linda Landers’ paintings, etchings and wood engravings where past memories meet the present, and landscapes and figures take on an aura of wonder and mysticism. Inspiration is drawn from nature and people around us, as well as from NASA space missions which Landers heard about as a child, when she met Buzz Aldrin.
Landers sites Etruscan art and frescos as a strong stylistic influence. These sculptures and paintings are often peopled by smiling figures, and Landers’ own work is imbued with this sense of optimism; it celebrates the natural world and the joy of life and of the imagination.
There is a sculptural aspect to her work. In the early paintings Landers builds up layers of paint to create texture as if a painted stucco. In more recent work this building and layering is achieved rather through colour than a textured surface. In wood engraving, the unprinted areas are cut and carved out in fine detail and the relief surface of the work is printed.
Landers was born in Hertfordshire but now lives and works in London. She completed a Foundation course at Watford School of Art under Michael Werner and Peter Schmidt and went on to study Fine Art at Central St Martins under Cecil Collins. She holds an MA in Art from the University of Kingston. Landers won a printmaking prize at the Mall Galleries where she also taught. She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Highgate Watercolour Group at the Highgate Festival
The HWG will be showing a selection of paintings made during the ‘Lockdowns’ of
the last year. It will be available in the Highgate Society’s premises at 10A South
Grove. The group have met occasionally outside but mainly we’ve kept in touch
through Facebook. We’ve chosen a different theme each week and displayed a
selection of our members’ lovely work periodically. Recent topics have included
Nature, Spring, Dreams, Family and Travel – so an eclectic mix! Please check with
the HS for when the hall will be open to visitors.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Highgate Watercolour Group at the Highgate Festival
The HWG will be showing a selection of paintings made during the ‘Lockdowns’ of
the last year. It will be available in the Highgate Society’s premises at 10A South
Grove. The group have met occasionally outside but mainly we’ve kept in touch
through Facebook. We’ve chosen a different theme each week and displayed a
selection of our members’ lovely work periodically. Recent topics have included
Nature, Spring, Dreams, Family and Travel – so an eclectic mix! Please check with
the HS for when the hall will be open to visitors.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Highgate Watercolour Group at the Highgate Festival
The HWG will be showing a selection of paintings made during the ‘Lockdowns’ of
the last year. It will be available in the Highgate Society’s premises at 10A South
Grove. The group have met occasionally outside but mainly we’ve kept in touch
through Facebook. We’ve chosen a different theme each week and displayed a
selection of our members’ lovely work periodically. Recent topics have included
Nature, Spring, Dreams, Family and Travel – so an eclectic mix! Please check with
the HS for when the hall will be open to visitors.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
A midsummer celebration of the life, legacy, attitude and work of Scotland’s filmmaking pioneer Margaret Tait (1918-1999) with the London premiere of a series of newly commissioned films by contemporary artists and filmmakers created for the centenary of her birth and launch of the LUX publication of Margaret Tait‘s unpublished book, Personae. In addition the LUX garden will be open all day as part of Highgate Festival Open Gardens day.
- 1-6pm Screening of films at LUX
- 6pm Readings and book launch in the LUX Garden
Film Screening – showing continuously on a loop at LUX
Highgate Watercolour Group at the Highgate Festival
The HWG will be showing a selection of paintings made during the ‘Lockdowns’ of
the last year. It will be available in the Highgate Society’s premises at 10A South
Grove. The group have met occasionally outside but mainly we’ve kept in touch
through Facebook. We’ve chosen a different theme each week and displayed a
selection of our members’ lovely work periodically. Recent topics have included
Nature, Spring, Dreams, Family and Travel – so an eclectic mix! Please check with
the HS for when the hall will be open to visitors.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm
The artist Helen de Sybel will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk).
To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Helen de Sybel: Borders. 25 June – 8 July.
Highgate Gallery is pleased to host Borders, an exhibition of paintings by Helen de Sybel. Working in acrylic, oil, collage, charcoal and mixed media, she creates intense and forceful images, with an emphasis on the figure depicted in landscape or cityscape. Colour, dynamic line and challenging themes forge a powerful connection with the onlooker.
Borders first grew out of a deeply felt reaction to the plight of the refugees in the ‘Calais Jungle’ (2016). Through the medium of oil paint and collage she references the conditions of war and displacement that have driven many of these individuals and their families from their countries of origin to seek a better life.
“In this body of work, I have become interested in the separation between the figures which struggle to remain ‘whole’ and the surrounding hostile and unstable landscape in which they find themselves.”
The characters who populate these canvasses are highly ambiguous, in singles and in pairs, sometimes running, sometimes hiding or following or being followed. Much is left open for the viewer to interpret in these charged, vital, expressionistic works.
As the series evolved, Helen has continued to delve into the interior world of metaphorical boundaries, of transgressions and borders crossed, of personal alienation.
About the artist Helen de Sybel studied Art History in Italy and went on to train at Harrow and Camberwell School of Art where she gained a BA (hons) and was selected as part of Christie’s Pick of the Graduates. She works from her studio in East London and exhibits regularly with galleries and as part of the Shoreditch Community. She is currently Artist in Residence at St Martin`s Church, Gospel Oak, London, where she will be exhibiting an installation of twelve paintings based on the Old Testament.
Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper at the Shipton Gallery, and British Paintings II at the Project Space, Bermondsey. Major projects have also included a series of collages based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, now in private collections in the UK and the US, and Urban Journeys (oil and mixed media), an exploration of the human condition depicted through uncertainty and isolation.
Gallery Talk: 6 July, 3.30-4.30pm The artist will talk about the background to, and evolution of her work, including her techniques. Chris Brice, Chair of the London Churches Refugee Fund, will discuss the work of this important charity, which will receive 30% of all artwork sales (www.lcrf.org.uk). To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
For further information please contact: helencdesybel@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.helendesybel.co.uk
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Gallery Talk: ‘From the Olduvai to the HLSI’. 11 July, 6-7pm including questions.
Cuillin Bantock will talk about his show, ‘Hiraeth’ (10-23 July) and how his own work relates to that of earlier painters.
To book tickets: www.hlsi.net/highgate-gallery.
Free to HLSI members though donations welcome. £5 to non-members.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Cuillin Bantock – Hiraeth. 10-23 July 2021
Described by Bantock as ‘a summation of over fifty years of painting’, most of the work in this wide ranging exhibition is new, and seen here at Highgate Gallery for the first time. The pastel drawings and watercolours were made during the lockdowns of 2020 and the oil paintings this year.
The exhibition falls broadly into three categories. The landscapes are in part duneland ‘plein air’ studies in conte or black ink, based on the Harlech Morfa duneland in North Wales, and part non-depictive acrylics and watercolours, also based on maritime Harlech. The third category is made entirely from memory; chalk pastel drawings of Harlech Morfa and gouache paintings of Barnt Green, the Worcestershire village where the Bantock family lived when not in Wales.
All the work conveys a sense of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word which cannot be translated exactly, but implies an absence, a longing for homeland that can never be resolved. The external and interior landscapes, whether depictive or abstract, are never nostalgic, but always rigorous in their mark-making, interrogating the ambiguous balance between form and shape, light and space, representation and abstraction. The studies show the gradual simplification of an aesthetic; as Bantock himself once commented, “possibly echoing the composer Chopin’s 1848 remark, ‘Simplicity is the final achievement’.”
Though retaining strong links with his native Wales, Bantock is based in Crouch End and has shown at numerous exhibitions in UK, Canada, USA and Italy. He was Director of the Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015 and has contributed to many art publications as well as being the author of books on Cytogenetics and Evolutionary Ecology, having trained originally as a zoologist. His work is in private and corporate collections in UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Pakistan, Greece and Mexico.
Bantock’s recent autobiography, ‘Landscapes in the Grain – Recollections of a Zoologist-Painter’, is published by First Servant Books.
Further information: cuillinb@yahoo.com. www.cuillinbantockpaintings.com
Catalogues will be available at the show.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Penny Elder’s exhibition, ‘Beyond Confinement’, gives expression to her feelings during the past year or more of lockdown and the consequent longing for social connection again. Her experience of this troubled time is depicted in a series of acrylic paintings and collages of ‘Lockdown’ and a series of screenprints entitled ‘Together Again’ and ‘Closer’.
The theme of ‘Beyond Confinement’ in her printed images is accompanied by colourful abstract and semi-abstract oil paintings of imagined landscapes. Her use of striking colours applied in deepening layers on the canvas gives rise to a hope for future renewal from the natural world. These fantasised landscapes are inspired by the Scottish countryside with which Penny has become familiar over more than thirty years. She has a studio close to the coast in south-west Scotland where she produced many of the screenprints conceived during lockdown.
Some of her landscapes and abstracts are full of movement and exuberance while others are quieter, more peaceful and reflective. Titles such as Rebirth, Out There, What will Emerge, Connecting and Seeing Beyond, describe images which are looking at the future and the importance of connectedness. Penny enjoys the contrast of oil painting and printmaking which lead to very different images. Her layering technique in both mediums is a strong characteristic of her approach.
This exhibition comes at a time when the restrictions of quarantine are being lessened and people are able to meet up again, although still facing a somewhat unknown and uncertain future. The importance of close relationships has been uppermost in Penny’s mind during the pandemic as is illustrated in her exhibited work.
Apart from participating in many group exhibitions over the years, this is Penny’s ninth solo exhibition in London. She is a retired psychoanalytical psychotherapist who has lived and worked in Muswell Hill for nearly 50 years and who has painted all her life. She has a studio with Collage Arts in Wood Green and has had annual Open Studio weekends in the Chocolate Factory and Artspace 3 for twenty years.
See more of Penny’s work at www.pennyelder.co.uk; www.eastfinchleyopen.org.uk/artist-listing and instagram@pennyelder.
Exhibition continues until 23 Sept. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Penny Elder’s exhibition, ‘Beyond Confinement’, gives expression to her feelings during the past year or more of lockdown and the consequent longing for social connection again. Her experience of this troubled time is depicted in a series of acrylic paintings and collages of ‘Lockdown’ and a series of screenprints entitled ‘Together Again’ and ‘Closer’.
The theme of ‘Beyond Confinement’ in her printed images is accompanied by colourful abstract and semi-abstract oil paintings of imagined landscapes. Her use of striking colours applied in deepening layers on the canvas gives rise to a hope for future renewal from the natural world. These fantasised landscapes are inspired by the Scottish countryside with which Penny has become familiar over more than thirty years. She has a studio close to the coast in south-west Scotland where she produced many of the screenprints conceived during lockdown.
Some of her landscapes and abstracts are full of movement and exuberance while others are quieter, more peaceful and reflective. Titles such as Rebirth, Out There, What will Emerge, Connecting and Seeing Beyond, describe images which are looking at the future and the importance of connectedness. Penny enjoys the contrast of oil painting and printmaking which lead to very different images. Her layering technique in both mediums is a strong characteristic of her approach.
This exhibition comes at a time when the restrictions of quarantine are being lessened and people are able to meet up again, although still facing a somewhat unknown and uncertain future. The importance of close relationships has been uppermost in Penny’s mind during the pandemic as is illustrated in her exhibited work.
Apart from participating in many group exhibitions over the years, this is Penny’s ninth solo exhibition in London. She is a retired psychoanalytical psychotherapist who has lived and worked in Muswell Hill for nearly 50 years and who has painted all her life. She has a studio with Collage Arts in Wood Green and has had annual Open Studio weekends in the Chocolate Factory and Artspace 3 for twenty years.
See more of Penny’s work at www.pennyelder.co.uk; www.eastfinchleyopen.org.uk/artist-listing and instagram@pennyelder.
Exhibition continues until 23 Sept. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Penny Elder’s exhibition, ‘Beyond Confinement’, gives expression to her feelings during the past year or more of lockdown and the consequent longing for social connection again. Her experience of this troubled time is depicted in a series of acrylic paintings and collages of ‘Lockdown’ and a series of screenprints entitled ‘Together Again’ and ‘Closer’.
The theme of ‘Beyond Confinement’ in her printed images is accompanied by colourful abstract and semi-abstract oil paintings of imagined landscapes. Her use of striking colours applied in deepening layers on the canvas gives rise to a hope for future renewal from the natural world. These fantasised landscapes are inspired by the Scottish countryside with which Penny has become familiar over more than thirty years. She has a studio close to the coast in south-west Scotland where she produced many of the screenprints conceived during lockdown.
Some of her landscapes and abstracts are full of movement and exuberance while others are quieter, more peaceful and reflective. Titles such as Rebirth, Out There, What will Emerge, Connecting and Seeing Beyond, describe images which are looking at the future and the importance of connectedness. Penny enjoys the contrast of oil painting and printmaking which lead to very different images. Her layering technique in both mediums is a strong characteristic of her approach.
This exhibition comes at a time when the restrictions of quarantine are being lessened and people are able to meet up again, although still facing a somewhat unknown and uncertain future. The importance of close relationships has been uppermost in Penny’s mind during the pandemic as is illustrated in her exhibited work.
Apart from participating in many group exhibitions over the years, this is Penny’s ninth solo exhibition in London. She is a retired psychoanalytical psychotherapist who has lived and worked in Muswell Hill for nearly 50 years and who has painted all her life. She has a studio with Collage Arts in Wood Green and has had annual Open Studio weekends in the Chocolate Factory and Artspace 3 for twenty years.
See more of Penny’s work at www.pennyelder.co.uk; www.eastfinchleyopen.org.uk/artist-listing and instagram@pennyelder.
Exhibition continues until 23 Sept. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Penny Elder’s exhibition, ‘Beyond Confinement’, gives expression to her feelings during the past year or more of lockdown and the consequent longing for social connection again. Her experience of this troubled time is depicted in a series of acrylic paintings and collages of ‘Lockdown’ and a series of screenprints entitled ‘Together Again’ and ‘Closer’.
The theme of ‘Beyond Confinement’ in her printed images is accompanied by colourful abstract and semi-abstract oil paintings of imagined landscapes. Her use of striking colours applied in deepening layers on the canvas gives rise to a hope for future renewal from the natural world. These fantasised landscapes are inspired by the Scottish countryside with which Penny has become familiar over more than thirty years. She has a studio close to the coast in south-west Scotland where she produced many of the screenprints conceived during lockdown.
Some of her landscapes and abstracts are full of movement and exuberance while others are quieter, more peaceful and reflective. Titles such as Rebirth, Out There, What will Emerge, Connecting and Seeing Beyond, describe images which are looking at the future and the importance of connectedness. Penny enjoys the contrast of oil painting and printmaking which lead to very different images. Her layering technique in both mediums is a strong characteristic of her approach.
This exhibition comes at a time when the restrictions of quarantine are being lessened and people are able to meet up again, although still facing a somewhat unknown and uncertain future. The importance of close relationships has been uppermost in Penny’s mind during the pandemic as is illustrated in her exhibited work.
Apart from participating in many group exhibitions over the years, this is Penny’s ninth solo exhibition in London. She is a retired psychoanalytical psychotherapist who has lived and worked in Muswell Hill for nearly 50 years and who has painted all her life. She has a studio with Collage Arts in Wood Green and has had annual Open Studio weekends in the Chocolate Factory and Artspace 3 for twenty years.
See more of Penny’s work at www.pennyelder.co.uk; www.eastfinchleyopen.org.uk/artist-listing and instagram@pennyelder.
Exhibition continues until 23 Sept. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.