The Great Atlantic Galleries

stephen prince
this present place

Incoming
20 x 36” 50 x 92cm oil on canvas

THIS PRESENT PLACE

Yet this place finds me
And forms itself again.
This present place...

W.S.Graham The Nightfishing

Stephen Prince as a young student at the Central School of Art in London discovered for himself the mysteries and marvels of West Penwith when he took absence without leave and camped in and around St Just for ten days in May 1975. The drawings with which he returned to London impressed his tutors and inspired painter David Haughton* to revisit the area with small groups of students in the following year. Such trips became a permanent feature of teaching at the Central for several years. Prince also continued to visit St Just longing to live and work in this area as a permanent resident. In 2006 the dream came true and The Great Atlantic Galleries are pleased to be staging Steve Prince’s first exhibition of work from his new St Just base.

(*In the inaugural exhibition “40 Years of Art in St Just” at The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery in 1996, a David Haughton drawing of some terraced houses in St Just took pride of place. Haughton influenced a generation of young painters including long-term Penwith resident artist, Noel Betowski.)

“The excitement and inspiration I felt when exploring the landscape of West Penwith for the first time thirty years ago is still with me today. A move to Cornwall in the summer of 2006 to live permanently in St Just has enabled a fresh start and the opportunity of change and discovery within my work. I am now able to explore my response to the landscape of Penwith for the first time as no longer just a visitor but as a resident painter.”

Stephen Prince, Carn Bosavern, St Just-in-Penwith

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