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Michael Praed currently works out of his studio in Madron with extensive views of land and sea. His enthusiasm for painting his native Cornwall is as strong as ever and although his style is ever developing a clear distinctive use of line, texture and colour prevade.
“In my most recent painting I have become more concerned with the vertical and horizontal line, found in Cornwall’s harbour walls, contrasting with the softer, curving forms of the fishing craft within these compositions. The spacing and positioning of abstracted shape, within the frame, are as important to me as the layering of texture, colour and tone using oil paint in with a mixed media. I am seeking to capture the vibrancy and luminosity of the changing Cornish light and this governs the final outcome of each painting.”
– Michael Praed.
John Piper
“It was a visit to the Penwith Gallery in 1964 that started my interest in painting. Five years later I was to have my first painting exhibited in a Member’s exhibition. I have been involved, on and off, with the Penwith ever since, although for a number of years I spent more time with the Newlyn Society of Artists. My paintings are mainly in oils and are always based on the landscape of West Penwith. It is the starkness of the area that appeals, granite houses and barns, blackthorn and hawthorn trees, and the weathered and lichen covered outcrops of rock. It has become an obsession.”
John Emanuel
Since the early 1980s John has lived in St Ives, working from a Porthmeor Studio overlooking Porthmeor Beach. The studio was previously used by the sculptor John Milne.
Over the years, John has visited the Scillies – in particular St Agnes and St Martins; the northern fells and lakes of Cumbria and the island of Mull.
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The Poly, Falmouth
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Morrab Library, Penzance
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Saltash Wesley Methodist Church, Saltash
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Housel Bay hotel, Lizard
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