• Experiencing Landscape : four artists at Lauderdale House

2nd  - 14th February 2010

About the exhibition:

This exhibition draws together four landscape painters that celebrate
landscape through observing the change in light, colour and form.

Richard Robinson’s abstractions of East Anglian landscape; Elizabeth
Pavey and Sue Whitmore’s interpretations of the mountains north of
Alicante and John Blandy following a particular places over long
periods of time.

About the artists:

Richard Robinson, Elizabeth Pavey and Sue Whitmore were contemporaries at the
Central School of Art & Design, and John Blandy graduated from St
Martins School of Art and the Royal College.

Bringing together science and nature leads Robinson to a continuing
interest in the possibility of non-figuration, the complete autonomy
of the artwork.

Pavey, quoting Lynton Lamb, says that her work is ‘flooded with
significance that echoes some deeply buried experience’.

Whitmore has always put trees, landscape and the figure at the heart
of her work. They all find an echo where she works when in Spain in
the mountains that circle Almassera Vella north of Alicante.

Blandy’s work combines an abstract style of painting with a constant
alertness to change, mood and movement in landscape. His present
projects include a tree he has followed on a daily basis in Queens’
Park over the last eleven years, a river near Oxford, and a hamlet in
the Charante.