Paintings Lustreware

Peter Wray & Judy Collins, Neil Pinkett, Sutton Taylor

PETER WRAY & JUDY COLLINS

Peter and Judy relocated to West Penwith in 2008. They share similar responses to materials, landscape and the art process, and so collaboration enables them to collectively express their individual responses in a way which brings new meaning to each. Wray’s interest in the personal significance of sheltered spaces such as harbours, quarries and inlets, and Collins’ focus on the edges of things, where differences merge – sea/land, man/nature, etc – and the extremes of weather, make a fertile combination. While initial inspiration and content may vary for each work, certain elements link their individual contributions – an interest in textural qualities, sensitive use of colour, experimentation with the medium and a mutual respect for the subject matter.

NEIL PINKETT

Neil born in St. Just, Cornwall in 1958, began his artistic career as a successful illustrator but moved into the fine art arena with a hugely successful debut solo exhibition in 1996. Since that date Neil has become one of the foremost landscape painters in Cornwall. His work has been exhibited at a large number of venues throughout the UK and has also toured in America.

SUTTON TAYLOR

‘What is Lustreware? In the history of Ceramics Lustreware is defined as `an iridescent metallic surface used in the decoration of ceramics`. It is certainly that – but here it is rather more complicated. Historians believe that the technique of combining precious metals and ceramic glazes first emerged in ancient Egypt when glass – makers attempted to make glass vessels resemble solid metal vessels by coating the surfaces in gold or by incorporating gold into the glass. This may well be the case, for glazed pottery is coated in a film of glass.