28 South Hams Art
THE COLOUR OF THE COLOUR
A groundbreaking exhibition featuring five women artists who studied under Robert Lenkiewicz. In its heyday the Lenkiewicz studio on the Barbican, Plymouth wasn’t only a place where the artist painted. It was a world in itself; a hive of activity with a constant procession of people coming and going. It attracted numerous artists and art students, keen to learn what art colleges no longer taught: the basics of academic painting. Lenkiewicz encouraged his students to follow
their own paths and to develop their own ‘private language’. His disciplined teaching method was termed ‘the shape of the shape, the tone of the tone and the colour of the colour’.
FIVE PAINTERS WITH DISTINCT VOICES The exhibition presents five artists with very diverse styles. Through her use of largely muted and closley toned colours, Louise Courtnell creates paintings in which she is strives for subtlety and a sense of poetry. Karen Ciambriello’s figurative, idiosyncratic paintings are imbued with a joyful sense of colour. Strongly narrative, her paintings have a dreamlike quality which a vivid use of colour intensifies. Lisa Stokes’ expressionistic, figurative
paintings reflect a sense of memory and emotion. Sombre and heavy as if veiled or faded with time, her paintings have a disquieting sense of foreboding with meanings hidden or merely hinted at. Described by Lenkiewicz as ‘a natural
Yana Trevail - And if I do
colourist’ Diane Nevitt’s distinctive abstract style is suffused with luminous and radiant colours. yana Trevail’s paintings are derived from a physical engagement with the landscape and of the haunting, silent presences of abandoned places and archaeological sites. Rich, gem- like colours are used to create unpredictable, cosmological images that resonate with energy. The Colour of the Colour runs from 15 April to 7 May at The Brownston Gallery, Modbury PL21 0QR email:
art@thebrownstongallery.co.uk tel: 01548 831338
www.thebrownstongallery.
co.uk Contact the gallery for details.
Below. Left to right: Lisa Stokes Nettles. Louise Courtnell- Still life Diane Nevitt- Evening on the Terrace.
by Catherine Gillen FROM THE BROWNSTON GALLERY, MODBURY
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