Lucy Cavendish

8 - 31 October 2008

Stove, Evening, 2008

Stove, Evening, 2008

Oil on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm
  1. Stove, Evening, 2008
  2. Landscape, Cornwall, 2008
  3. Seascape, Tobago II, 2008
  4. Tobago Seascape with Rocks, 2008
  5. Dried Orange Peel, 2008
  6. Vase of Flowers, 2008
  7. Cornish Seascape with Lighthouse, 2008
  8. Tobago Seascape with Headland, 2008
  9. Morecambe Bay, High Tide, 2007

In her fourth exhibition at the gallery, Cavendish presented a wide variety of oil paintings that reaffirmed her position as a leading artist in the field of representational art. Large still-lives of flowers and intense studies of interiors and everyday objects are coupled with atmospheric views of Morecambe Bay and other areas of her native Cumbria. Following a period in Tobago, there are a series of works that present this Carribean Island.

Cavendish makes an intuitive and highly-charged emotional response to the visual world. She entirely rejects current extremes of deconstructivism or realism in order to super-charge representations of those things and places closest to her with her own sense of purpose. To that end, even small objects can be blown up on a giant scale and filled with a powerful impression of liveliness. The resulting images draw the viewer in to the picture space with increasing intensity.

Times art critic, Rachel Campbell-Johnston named the exhibition the number one show to see in October 2008. She wrote, 'Recent works capture the silver-grey of our seas and the damp green of our landscapes with lyrical sensitivity.'