After a year of intermittent lockdown, the desire to travel has never been stronger. As we wait and hope for the world to open up this summer, Richard Green Gallery presents Longing for Abroad, an online exhibition of paintings celebrating blue skies and sparkling seas, shady forests and babbling brooks.
Albert Marquet’s Voiliers à Porquerolles conjures up the intense light of southern France which cast its spell over the rebels of Modernism. Marquet was influenced by the Fauves early in his career; the simplicity and saturated colour of this painting continue their legacy.
The far north-west and the far south-west of the United Kingdom have their own magical atmosphere. The Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell’s Iona, East Bay, c.1923-25, revels in the pure, clean air of this island off the west coast of Scotland. Cadell is fascinated by the white sand, the forms and colours of the rocks, portrayed with an almost Cubist simplicity, and the constantly changing light.
Patrick Heron was one of many artists drawn to England’s Celtic enclave, Cornwall, with its rugged coastline and radiant light. He first went there as a child and lived in St Ives during the Second World War. Bedroom, Mousehole, 1946, explores his marriage of indoor and outdoor space, enticing the viewer through the window to gaze at the harbour below. Objects are presented with rhythmic linearity and decorative colour in a joyous affirmation of the sense of sight.
28 апр 2021
