A sunny Saturday November morning in the beautiful Worcestershire Village of Clent couldn't be better for the opening of A Brush with Landscape. A double header featuring Richard Heywood Coyle and Ron Humphries.
Both painters portray the landscape with their own unique style both endeavouring to capture that elusive magic of a place and time frozen forever for the admiring onlooker. Cornwall, The English Lakes and Worcestershire itself feature strongly with a touch of the Cotswolds and Scotland too.
Ron Humphries concerns are those of the impressionists before him that fleeting moment of the light on the shimmering sea or even a dirty puddle joyously expressed.
Ron Humphries Kynance Cove, Lizard Oil
Richard H Coyle a bundle of nervous energy paints a ferocious calmness with a deceptive ease. Glorious iconic scenes to old rickety fishermen's shacks elevated to a higher status.
Richard H Coyle The Causeway St Michael's Mount Marazion Oil
Both painters far more at ease with their paints than the crowd of collectors squeezed into the bijou studio with the Sun creating the warmth of a season passed. There's humour too with the odd slice of cutting banter between painters maybe hiding an underlying anxiety. But as the slightly sun bleached old newspaper cutting pinned on the wall says "if you find painting relaxing you're not a real painter".
If you like your landscape you'll love A Brush with Landscape
Both painters far more at ease with their paints than the crowd of collectors squeezed into the bijou studio with the Sun creating the warmth of a season passed. There's humour too with the odd slice of cutting banter between painters maybe hiding an underlying anxiety. But as the slightly sun bleached old newspaper cutting pinned on the wall says "if you find painting relaxing you're not a real painter".
A Brush with Landscape @ The Heywood Studio
The exhibition runs until Dec 4th, Wed, Fri & Sat 11:00 - 16:00 at The Heywood Studio, Clent. DY9 9PB
Phone: 01562 882748
