Geevor Cliffs 740 x 550mm mixed media   The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery is pleased to present a new collection of paintings by Paul Lewin entitled “Touchstones”. Order Line - 01736 788911 or 01736 786016 or e-mail: gallery@greatatlantic.co.uk Paul Lewin was born in Manchester in 1967. He studied at Stockport College of Art and then Bristol Polytechnic, graduating in 1989 with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. After leaving College he moved to Penwith where he stayed for an influential ten years. He now lives near Bideford, North Devon - another area with a richly stimulating landscape. The coastal and moorland areas of North Devon and Cornwall are a constant source of inspiration to him, and he can often be found out painting in all weathers. Of his working method the poet Christine Evans has written “His relationship with landscape is intense; he seems absorbed, almost subsumed into it, driven by a restless energy that is characteristic of the sort of places he is drawn to - the extreme edges of the land, jutting promontories and tidal shores where the frontiers between land and sea are blurred and perspectives ever changing as the sky. His practice is to complete a painting at a single sitting if possible. Sometimes a piece will resolve itself quickly, in a couple of hours or so; more often, he will be working out in the open for five or six hours or until the light goes”. Lewin has had work published in Dorling and Kindersley’s ‘Art School’ series. He was involved in setting up an artists’ co-operative gallery in Penzance and was the Art Director at The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery in its first year, where his meticulous standards and intuitive artistic judgements formed the foundation for future developments at the gallery. Indeed he was one of a small number of influential and talented artists who, through The Great Atlantic stimulated a growing reputation for high quality art in St Just-in-Penwith, Britain’s most westerly town. Lewin has achieved considerable success relatively early in his painting career and his works have been purchased for collections in the UK, USA, Germany, Mexico, The Far East and Australia. He has had almost 30 solo exhibitions over the past 15 years and with each exhibition, his work continues to mature. Recently Lewin has spent time painting in Australia and on the North Yorkshire Moors.  Over the past few years he has also benefited from periods of residency on Nantucket Island off the eastern seaboard of the USA and much more remote islands off the British Coast - Bardsey Island off North Wales, Orkney Islands off Northern Scotland, Isles of Scilly off Cornwall and Lundy Island off the Devon Coast. These particular influences on his work are very much in evidence.    Across Bideford Bay from Cornborough 535 x 730mm mixed media   Portherras Beach 180 x 240mm mixed media   Warren Beach Sandbanks into the Sun 535 x 730mm mixed media   Porth Nanven and Carn Gloose 380 x 280mm mixed media   Winter Sunset, Rixlade 190 x 250mm mixed media   From Carn Bosavern 430 x 560mm mixed media   Low Tide Winter Beach 390 x 390mm mixed media   From Tresco, Isles of Scilly 250 x 250mm acrylic   Under the Watch, Pendeen 650 x 1000mm mixed media   High Seas, Pendeen Watch 690 x 540mm mixed media   Low Tide, Porth Nanven 220 x 330mm mixed media   Crashing Seas, Pendeen Watch 650 x 1000mm mixed media   Towards Camden Head, NSW 550 x 740mm mixed media   Kenidjack Valley 600 x 810mm oil on board   Oak Shadow 450 x 520mm mixed media   Carn Gloose, Autumn Afternoon 380 x 560mm mixed media   Looking South, Pendeen Watch 650 x 1000mm mixed media   Pacific Coast, Laurieton, NSW 550 x 740mm mixed media   Winter Moorland, Zennor 180 x 250mm mixed media   To view further paintings please CLICK HERE

Exhibition dates: 7th December 2002 - 5th January 2003

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