Three Artists, One Place was a great success and thoroughly enjoyable. It was great so many of you were able to visit.
Three Artists, One Place brought together my work with the work of St Ives-based ceramicist Julie Harper and artist Hani Mroz in a celebration of how one landscape can inspire three distinct creative languages.
We appear to have achieved our aim as all three of us sold well and visitors commented on how very different our work was from each other.
The Private View was a great success too. It was very buzzy and we were delighted to welcome the Mayor and Mayoress of St Ives to the event. It was pleasing to see them in their ceremonial chains even if it was far too hot for them to be clad in ermine robes.
I’d been given the job of filling the main long wall of the large space in the Crypt Gallery – “because you do big works and we don’t!”.
Unsurprisingly, and I would say this wouldn’t I, but my work created the eye candy – filling the enormous long wall of the cavenous Crypt with a riot of bold colour.
One visitor loved the way I had themed my works and moved through blues from Julie’s works, through bold sunsets, and into the rust and earthy tones of the Harbour to transition into Hani’s atmospheric oils : “it is very sensitively and thoughtfully hung. You’ve created a natural segway through your exquisite colour palette“.
Others commented on the “purity, light and simplicity” of my works and that I had “captured the essence of things“.
There were a number of Shorelines works featuring in the blue section of my long wall. From the very large – ie these two beauties featured above – to much smaller, more affordable works. A couple of works sold – smaller ones – but they were all very well received. Jane said : “I particularly love the Sound & the Silence works – the scale, the depth, the colours“. Andrew from Singapore was very taken by “The Sound”. He loved all the layers of blues and particularly liked the way I had incorporated rust into the work. He was excited to learn that I’d got some large works in communications giant Huawei’s corporate headquarters in Shenzhen, China.
There were also a range of Sunsets featuring in the exhibition, including a brand new artwork that doesn’t technically fit into the sunsets category – it being a moonscape. Although one sunset sold, it was Under Blue Moon I Saw You – the moonscape – and its sibling – the sunset – Porthmeor Gold that received the most attention at the exhibition. Of the two, visitors said things like “simply stunning“, and “breathtaking“.
My Harbour section of the exhibition featured mostly new work. Two harbour works sold and the section went down very well with visitors. People liked the industrial feel of the works, and the 3D elements. One said : “the rivets are so clever. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Truly unique“. The only one in the show majoring on verdigris rather than rust created disappointment for a couple of other customers who came back to buy it after going away to think about it only to find it had gone.
All in all, it was a thoroughly enjoyable and successful show.
