Jenny Grevatte, midlands based but with a home in West Cornwall, has been a most frequent visitor to Cornwall since infancy and the magic just doesn’t wear off.  Her highly individual style that combines oil paint on intricate collage structures produces and effect that both pleases and intrigues. Several collectors of her work have said words to the effect that they found something new in her paintings every day.

This work in this selection rejoices in the colours and vibrancy of this most familiar of subjects - the harbours and coves of Cornwall.  Some of the larger works encompass the drama and scale of the subject; others are more intimate close-ups and use colour and paint instinctively.

All paintings are framed and glazed and prices include delivery to any UK mainland address. The paintings are currently on show in the Falmouth Gallery.

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Jenny Grevatte
Glimpses of Penwith25 x 30” oil and mixed media £1,650

Jenny Grevatte
Mousehole rooftops, St Michael’s Mount beyond
41 x 56” oil and mixed media £4,500

Jenny Grevatte
Coastal Glimpses
18 x 25” oil and mixed media £1,250

Jenny Grevatte
‘Nimrod’ reflections, Falmouth harbour
18 x 25” oil and mixed media £1,250

Jenny Grevatte
Glimpse of St Ives lighthouse
17 x 18” oil and mixed media £995

Catherine Grubb

Scottish born painter, printmaker and art historian, Catherine Grubb received her art education at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh.

Catherine first established her reputation as an artist through printmaking. Her etchings have been exhibited widely and may be found in many public and private collections - including those of Vanessa Redgrave, Sophia Loren and Brian Forbes. In recent years, she has spent more time painting, in a variety of media, working in particular on long term projects like “One Hundred Views of Lamorna Farmhouse” (near her home) and “The Journey” (featuring the A40 trunk road.) Her subject matter is otherwise wide ranging - from purely abstract paintings to etchings inspired by her interest in music and literature, as well as landscape, still life and animal studies at zoos and livestock shows. Drawing - from direct observation and from photography - forms the basis of much of her work.

Just as Catherine’s experience as an artist has benefited her teaching as an art historian, so her wide knowledge in this field has undoubtedly informed her own work. Those artists that she most admires include Pisanello, Palmer, Degas, Munch, Kandinsky, Bonnard, Nash and Burra.

Catherine now lives and works near Truro, Cornwall.

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Mark Spray - a small selection from “I’ll invite the Poets”

This new Mark Spray collection is heavily steeped in a heady brew of geomorphological investigation and poetic intrigue. Mark doesn’t just draw and paint, he excavates the soil and rock beneath the landscape and sets his spoils in a sophisticated literary context.
 
Mark has an incredible knack of recognizing and incorporating into his paintings and drawings, geologic and geographical features in his local terrain. 

A magic collection indeed - complete with a flotilla of poets, present in spirit if not in body.

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Mark Spray
Under broken stone I halt
(from ‘The man and the echo’ - W.B.Yeats)
30 x 30cm oil and mixed media on canvas £475

Mark Spray
I stood between them
 (from ‘making strange’ - Seamus Heaney)
30 x 30cmoil and mixed media on canvas £475

Mark Spray
A weeping mouth and a laughing mouth
(from ‘A weeping mouth’ - Yehuda Amichai)
35 x 35cm drawing SOLD

A further selection of work by Michael Strang:

Michael Strang has been a professional artist since 1973 when 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. He has a huge library and hence 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.

The agreed purchase price will include delivery to any UK mainland address. The work is currently on show in the Falmouth Gallery. 

"Michael Strang, our most successful artist is a particular favourite with the American collectors. He paints for dear life every day, illuminating his canvasses with a depth of colour and vividness that is all his own.”

Bryan Forbes, film director and former owner of The Gallery, Virginia Water

“Strang is a modern day Romantic, seeking to absorb and then reproduce the natural world, and in this tradition he has habitually formed fixations with certain locations, to which he has returned, again and again, capturing each place in a myriad different lights.”

Alison Bevan, Director of Penlee House and Museum, Penzance

“We invited Michael to continue the enthusiasm of earlier painters such as Sickert, Borlase Smart, Julian Olsson and Tony O’Malley, using as they had, Porthmeor Beach as their subject. The paintings were so energetically worked on that they were counted in their hundreds.”

Michael Tooby, Curator of Tate St Ives at the time of “Porthmeor Beach: a century of images”, 1995 in which Strang showed over 50 works

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