The Great Atlantic Galleries

catherine harvey jefferson
western seaboard

Catherine Harvey Jefferson is most at home on the cliffs and coastline of West Penwith. Living in Penzance, she is well placed to make a daily dash off to one or more of her many favourite locations. Sheltering from the worst of inclement weather, Catherine works swiftly and confidently in the open air, painting and sketching, preparing her work for finishing later in her studio.

Being a third generation painter from the Harvey family in Cornwall, Catherine carries on a long and distinguished tradition, having studied at Falmouth and Winchester Schools of Art. Although her roots lie in Cornwall, she worked in the Home Counties for many years and has only recently re-settled in the far south west.

She describes her latest collection of drawings and paintings as being about the places where the Atlantic Ocean, pushed by Westerly winds, meets the granite stronghold of the Land’s End peninsula. “I spend most of my time painting and drawing outside on the cliffs and have a strong sense of the enduring shape of the land”, she says. “The granite is the core rock, left behind as the softer rocks that once enveloped it, have been washed away and ground into sand. My work reflects the products of endless interaction between the weathering and erosive action the sea and the varying resistance of the land.”

Catherine Harvey Jefferson’s long awaited 2010 exhibition “Western Seaboard” opens at The Great Atlantic Bank Square Gallery, St Just-in-Penwith on May 1st and runs till May 26th

Call the gallery on 01736 788911 for further details or e-mail catalogue@greatatlantic.co.uk for a copy of the exhibition catalogue.

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Aire Point & the Brisons 16 x 27cm oil on canvas £195	Brisons, spring 16 x 27cm oil on canvas £195	Building the new lifeboat slip at Sennen 30 x 35cm oil on canvas £425	Cape & the Brisons 15 x 40cm oil on canvas £395
Catching the last warm light II 29 x 60cm oil on canvas £650	First light, Godrevy 91 x 121cm oil on canvas £2395	Godrevy oil sketch 25 x 30cm oil on canvas £395	Gwenver 16 x 27cm oil on canvas £195
High Tide, Nanjizal Easter 2010 75 x 100cm oil on canvas £1525	Inside The Manacles 71 x 91cm oil on canvas £1395	Lamorna, spring squall 70 x 90cm oil on canvas £1395	Nanjizal 75 x 100cm oil on canvas £1525
New Year, 2010 25 x 30cm oil on canvas £395	Porthchapel walk 29 x 60cm oil on canvas £650	Porthgwarra 16 x 27cm oil on canvas £195	Porthnanven, January 2010 76 x 101cm oil on canvas £1525
Prussia 16 x 27cm oil on canvas £195	Resurgam 29 x 60cm oil on canvas £650	Scilly 13 x 18cm oil on canvas £175	Stevensons' Trawlers at Newlyn 29 x 60cm oil on canvas £650
The Mount, early spring 71 x 91cm oil on canvas £1395	Tide race, Porthnanven 70 x 90cm oil on canvas £1395	Two fishing boats 25 x 30cm oil on canvas £395
Storm shelter I 15 x 20cm monotype £150	Storm shelter II 15 x 20cm monotype £150	Storm shelter III 15 x 20cm monotype £150	Storm shelter IV 15 x 20cm monotype £150
Storm shelter V 15 x 20cm monotype £150	Trenyn Dinas 38 x 57cm screenprint edition of 14 £295	Zawn Buzz 40 x 55cm screenprint edition of 14 £295
Little Cudden, Puskies Cove 19 x 23cm pencil sketch £225	Logan Rock 19 x 23cm pencil sketch £225	South Zawn Kenidjack Castle 19 x 23cm pencil sketch £225	The Gurnard's head 19 x 23cm pencil sketch £225
Under Carn Gloose, Priest's Cove 19 x 23cm pencil sketch £225