First Blush: Spring

Location

PORTHMINSTER GALLERY, St Ives | View on Google Maps

Dates

Sat 12th February, 2022 — Sat 11th June, 2022
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About this event

Changing show of new artworks by artists celebrating their reawakening from winter’s lockdown.

Porthminster Gallery is pleased to announce ‘First Blush: Spring Collection’, a group exhibition bringing together new paintings, prints, ceramics, and sculptures by selected artists, whose practice celebrates their reawakening from winter’s lockdown.

Featuring Sam Boughton, Melvyn Evans, Trevor Price, and Erin Ward.

All of these artists are creating works that reflect their personal inner spaces in response to the natural world they live in, and their place within it.

As the show progresses along its journey, new ‘Spotlight’ collections of works by invited artists will spring up, notably: London-based Darren Appiagye’s pyrographic turned wood vessels; and Trevor Price’s drypoint and engraved relief prints from an ongoing series of Woodland-themed works, will mark the ‘International Day of Forests’ (21 March). A ‘Spotlight’ on pioneering women artists (Sandra Blow, Wilhelmina-Barns Graham, and Barbara Hepworth) of the St Ives Movement will mark ‘International Womens’ Day’ (8 March).

The featured artists’ works will be complemented by newly acquired sculptures and ceramics by permanent and invited artists, along with works for sale by a selection of Tate St Ives artists who were also inspired by springtime and nature, notably: Terry Frost; Barbara Hepworth; Patrick Heron; and Bryan Pearce. Heron, for example, created works in direct response to the light, colour and natural shapes that surrounded his home and studio high above Zennor in west Cornwall.

Contact

01736 795 888 | https://www.porthminstergallery.co.uk/