The Great Atlantic Galleries

Cornwall based art gallery group, The Great Atlantic have a long established tradition of exhibiting some of their top artists at locations outside Cornwall. After their successful visit to KCS 3 or 4 years ago, they are back in the school’s Cotman Gallery immediately after the Easter break.

Three professional artists will be represented, each a specialist oil painter.

Catherine Harvey Jefferson is a third generation painter from the Harvey family in Cornwall. She studied at Falmouth and Winchester Schools of Art. Moving back to Cornwall recently after living in the Home Counties for many years has led to work that reflects new energy and fresh re-appraisal of the Cornish coastline. Catherine likes working on drawings and paintings out on the cliffs and enjoys the excitement and energy that comes from being in the landscape, quiet, for long periods of time.

She is a regular exhibitor at The Great Atlantic Galleries and an enthusiastic participant in the Galleries’ travelling road-show programme. She often undertakes workshop sessions with students at host road-show venues, where her flair and energy inspires young artists.

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Porthledden, incoming tide March 1st 55 x 75cm charcoal drawing £695	From Dunquin, Dingle, Ireland 56 by 76cms oil on canvas £895	Cape Cornwall 25 x 35cm oil on canvas £395	Gwenver from Trevedra Cliff 75 x 100cm oil on canvas £1,195
Colour under the sun 25 x 30cm oil on canvas £350	Gwenver pink, Summer 2008 70 x 91cm oil on canvas £1,195	Gwenver, hot southwesterlie 61 x 77cm oil on canvas £950	Intense heat, Boat Cove 20 x 50cm oil on canvas £425
Pink seaweed and the incoming tide 35 x 35cm oil on canvas £395	Portheras from Boat Cove 76 x 101cm oil on canvas £1,495	Storm rising over The Tribbens 70 x 91cm oil on canvas £1,200	Supper on the beach at Porthchapel 25 x 30cm oil on canvas £350
The Kenidjacks 70 x 91cm oil on canvas £1,195

Mark Spray was born in Derbyshire and moved to West Cornwall in 2000. He was a student at Manchester Metropolitan University (1992-95) and Goldsmiths College, London (1998-99). He is now a dedicated artist living and working in the Land’s End area of Cornwall, Dartmoor and parts of his native Derbyshire.

Very much a project man, Mark Spray produces a series of paintings along a particular theme – the Moor Land and Strata series, the Unearth series, inspired by the words of American Poet Paul Auster and, more recently a collection called “I’ll invite the poets” in which each individual painting and drawing was inspired by a particular line of poetry from a range of Poets.

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To begin at the beginning (from ‘Under milk wood’ - Dylan Thomas) 40 x 40cm oil and mixed media on canvas £550	Under broken stone I halt (from ‘The man and the echo’ - W.B.Yeats) 30 x 30cm oil and mixed media on canvas £475	To begin at the beginning (from ‘Under milk wood’ - Dylan Thomas) 55 x 55cm drawing £495	See what I want today (from ‘Variations on Ma Rainey’s see see Rider’ - Allen Ginsberg) 35 x 35cm drawing £350
It knows you (from ‘Untitled final poem’ - Paul Celan) 20 x 20cm oil and mixed media on canvas £395	Go no more a-roving (from ‘So, we’ll go no more a-roving’ - Lord Byron) 20 x 20cm oil and mixed media on canvas £395	In song and dance about the sacred hill (from ‘Paradise Lost- Book V’ - John Milton) 20 x 20cm oil and mixed media on canvas £395	And solitude, and me (from ‘Rain’ - Edward Thomas) 40 x 40cm oil and mixed media on canvas £550
Out of solitude, he begins again (from ‘Disappearances’ - Paul Auster) 40 x 40cm oil and mixed media on canvas £550	Or is it only the breeze (from ‘The Voice’ - Thomas Hardy) 40 x 40 cm oil and mixed media on canvas £550	Unravelled 60 x 60cm oil and mixed media on canvas £995	Flowers of the promised land 60 x 60cm oil and mixed media on canvas £995
From one stone touched 40 x 40cm oil and mixed media on canvas £495

Michael J Strang has been a professional oil painter for 40 years and in The Great Atlantic Falmouth Gallery there will be an exhibition celebrating this time span throughout the month of May. He graduated from Wimbledon and then Camberwell Schools of art. He has shown his work in over 100 exhibitions including, Bond Street, Cork Street, The Royal Academy and St Martins-in-the-Fields in London and most notably in the Tate, St Ives in 1995.

Michael is knowledgeable about almost every aspect of his profession. His paintings may be found in private and public collections all over the world and donated pieces are closely associated with a number of fine charitable appeals - Great Ormond Street and several other hospitals, Cancer Research, St Martins-in-the-Fields, and many more. For a long period during the late 80’s and 90’s, Michael exhibited at the Gallery in Virginia Water owned by film director Bryan Forbes, where his paintings of London landscapes were particularly popular.

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Bouquet (2005) oil on panel 30 x 24.5cm £995	Poppy field towards Winterbourne Stoke (2004) oil on panel 32 x 40.5cm £1,950	Castallack cornfield oil on canvas 30 x 40cm £1,950	* Porthmeor, St Ives (1995) oil on panel 13.5 x 16.5cm £750
Salcombe bouquet (1986) oil on panel 90 x 60cm £4,750	Porthmeor, St Ives (studio) (1995) oil on panel 15 x 20cm £750	January 2007, Longrock (2007) oil on panel 19.5 x 24.5cm £895	Porthmeor Beach, St Ives (1996) oil on panel 15 x 20cm £750
* Porthmeor Beach oil on panel 21 x 15cm £750	Near Penberth (2005) oil on panel 24 x 19cm £875	The Poppyfield (2004) oil on canvas 91 x 121cm £8,950	* From Maurice Sumray’s flat, Porthmeor II oil on panel 14.5 x 20cm £550
Castallack Cornish Hedge (2006) oil on panel 89.5 x 89.5cm £4,950

*A proportion of all sales will go to Cancer Research UK

Cancer research UK is The Great Atlantic’s chosen charity this year as part of their Equinox Appeal (follow the link for details). Five percent of all sales made at KSC during the exhibition will be donated to Cancer research UK so please support us in this noble cause. Our last appeal raised over £10k.

For further details, an invitation to the Private View on the evening of April 24th (Champagne raffle) and a prospectus to the show, please contact Michael Jay at gallery@greatatlantic.co.uk or call 01736 788911.