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Harlequin Gallery |
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Iain Rutherford Turning the Tide - Recent Paintings 31st October to 21st November 2004 Below are examples
of some of Iain's paintings in the exhibition that are still available. All
are gouache on paper. |
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"Iain
Rutherford's recent gouache paintings, with their deep, intense, eye-catching
colour and radically simplified motifs, transform acute observations of
nature into an independent pictorial shorthand.
Vivid impressions of particular places, be they St. Ives in Cornwall, Swanage
or County Kerry in S.W. Ireland, are relayed not through the tonal mechanisms
of atmospheric and naturalistic description but through an artistic intelligence
that utilises and emphasises graphic process and plastic accord with
materials. The symbolising reduction of subject to an image of singular and
memorable significance lends the work a degree of abstraction otherwise
withheld by an insistence on looking directly at nature and working in front
of it. The
cornerstone of this artistic intelligence is selection of information and an
iconographic feeling for a good pictorial 'story'. A strange topographic
blemish, a natural or man-made landmark or a series of features replete with
the possibility to make a cogent pattern gives Rutherford's recent works on
paper a poetic charge and a vital tension between formal and evocative
elements." PETER DAVIES - Author, Critic and Artist |
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