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COOMBE gallery


WELCOME TO A GREAT SUMMER OF NEW ARTWORK AT COOMBE GALLERY


the last remnants of an old, pagan Europe, and we witness them seemingly attempting to revive bizarre ceremonies and rituals they no longer remember, or even believe in. “By their very nature, paintings only allow us to engage with a few disjointed fragments of reality. There are no explanations, not even for the artist. In the end, all we have are a few slices of time, and our own unlimited imaginations.”


‘Sun: Moon: Cosmos’ by Chuck Elliott


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fter our very successful James Stewart solo exhibition in May we have now restocked the gallery with some new work by Alison Pullen and Bill Bate. We are also pleased to be exhibiting the completely contrasting work of Chuck Elliott and David Shanahan. We also have a great range of new jewellery by Tina Riley and handblown glassware by Will Shakspeare among other delights.


Chuck Elliott’s work is concerned with a fluid investigation of colour, movement and light. Entirely computer generated, free form shapes are cropped, recoloured and enhanced as if editing in a camera view. The images are produced as Lambda photographic prints in limited edition series.


David Shanahan’s paintings explore a culture that has lost touch with its myths, its religion, and indeed, the storytelling tradition that once lay at its very core. “The people in the paintings look as if they might be


Alison Pullen has developed a unique style in portraying interiors. “I borrow sympathetic images from The World of Interiors and then I paint on top of the pages, using acrylic to change certain colours or darken areas. I mould the objects, such as chairs, curtains, window recesses or shutters from the photograph. Finally the image of the room is dominant, but coexists with a totally different room beneath.”


Bill Bate “When starting a painting I have an image in my mind of how I want it to be but after sketching the initial pose on the canvas the image develops and takes on its own path. I take my reference from many sources including models, imagination and life all around me. I work from dark to light, laying on dark brown or blue washes as a ground, and build up from there whilst still wet. I will work on a canvas for a few hours before leaving it to dry. I aim to achieve ‘tight’ realism in parts of a painting whilst in other areas leaving it loose and less defined. This is to escape the confines that realism can impose and to be more expressive.”


Coombe Gallery is open Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm


For more information contact Mark Riley of the COOMBE GALLERY 20 Foss St. Dartmouth TQ6 9DR 01803 835 820 / 07890 314 715 www.coombegallery.com | mark@coombegallery.com


‘Solitude’ byBill Bate


‘Noss’ by Alison Pullen


‘The Bellringer’s daughter’ by David Shanahan


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