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Elements

Lemon Street Gallery

April 13 – May 11 2019

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Frontier
Oil on canvas 137x213cm
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Enigma
Oil on canvas 153x153cm
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Icon
Oil on canvas 153x153cm
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Elements – Passing Landscape
Mixed media on paper 19x28cm
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Ocean Flow
Oil on canvas 91x122cm
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Rising Sea
Mixed media on canvas 91x91cm
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High Force
Mixed media on canvas 91x91cm
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Soaring
Mixed media on canvas 100x76cm
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Indigo Shore
Mixed media on canvas 91x76cm
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Sea Vision
Oil on canvas 78x78cm
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NYC - Siren
Oil on canvas 76x76cm
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Waking Light
Oil on canvas 66x61cm
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Summer Haze
Oil on canvas 61x66cm
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Free Flow
Oil on canvas 66x61cm
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Midnight Rapture
oil on canvas 61x66cm
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Cornish Nocturne
Oli on canvas 50x40cm
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Borderline
Mixed media on panel 60x60cm
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Edge of Light
Mixed media on panel 60x60cm
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New Dawn
Mixed media on panel 60x60cm
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Light Echoes
Mixed media on panel 60x60cm
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Freedom
Mixed media on panel 60x60cm
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Cityscape – Reflected White
Mixed media on panel 60x60cm
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Infinite Shores
Mixed media on panel 35x30cm
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Sea Whisper
Mixed media on panel 35x30cm
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Storm Indigo
Mixed media on panel 30x31cm
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Atlantic Storm
Mixed media on panel 30x31cm
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Sand Shadow
Mixed media on panel 31x30cm
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Solitude
Mixed media on panel 31x30cm
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Light Speed
Mixed media on panel 30x31cm
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Cityscape – Light Line
Mixed media on panel 35x30cm
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Cityscape – Rising Forms
Mixed media on panel 35x30cm
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Drifting Tide
Mixed media on paper 37x47cm
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Carried by the Wind
Mixed media on paper 37x41cm
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Zennor – Field Forms
Mixed media on paper 37x41cm
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Pendeen – Field Forms
Mixed media on paper 37x41cm
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Morvah – Field Forms
Mixed media on paper 41x37cm
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Mullion Harbour
Mixed media on paper 38x38cm
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Waking Tide
Mixed media on paper 38x38cm
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Before Dusk
Mixed media on paper 38x38cm
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Woodland Haze
Mixed media on paper 38x38cm
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Landfall
Mixed media on paper 38x38cm
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Ocean Rapture
Mixed media on paper 43x47cm
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White Rocks
Mixed media on paper 43x47cm
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Meadowland
Mixed media on paper 43x47cm
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NYC - Empire
Mixed media on panel 60x60cm
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HK - Ocean City
Mixed media on panel 30x31cm
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HK - Vision
Mixed media on panel 30x31cm
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Brightening Skies
Mixed media on paper 19x38cm
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Tidal Sweep
Mixed media on paper 19x38cm
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Tidal Flow
Mixed media on paper 19x38cm
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Elements - Tranquillity
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Dances of Nature
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Arrival
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements - Quiet Tides
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements - Ascend
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Break the Tide
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Silent Nature
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements - Nightfall
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Golden Shore
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Red Coast
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements –St Ives Harbour
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Further Away
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Winter Storm
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements - Autumn
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Storm Silver
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements - Refuge
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Pagan Sun
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Summer Green
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Elements – Winter White
Mixed media on paper 21x29cm
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Eternal Tide
Mixed media on paper 38x38cm
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Drifting Tide
Mixed media on paper 37x47cm

Over recent years foreign travel has allowed me to explore new subject matter. In some cases this encouraged me to use paint in very different ways, particularly in the cityscapes. Although these themes are on going, it seemed important to me with this series of paintings to concentrate once again on my immediate surroundings in West Cornwall.

Last year some of my key canvases featured more abstract elements, these were almost geometric. Squares and precise hard edges encouraged the viewer to be much more aware of surface and the illusion created by paint. These forms appear almost to float vertically or provide an anchor point. This helped to bring a much more contemporary edge to the land and sea based paintings. Perhaps suggesting man made structures within the landscape or windows framing it. They also allow me to develop subtle colour variations reflecting atmospheric conditions and changing light.

It was the more formal developments I felt compelled to explore further. As the work progressed it soon became apparent these more considered structures also encouraged greater exuberance elsewhere. The more pronounced dynamic brushwork often suggesting elemental forces. This is illustrated in canvases such as High Force (mixed media on canvas). The dramatic atmosphere of these stormy subjects contrasts with luminous, gentle pieces. In works like Soaring (mixed media on canvas), new colour combinations have evolved suggesting the light filled vistas of the Cornish coastline. Here land fades away, we are high up, rocked by sea breezes.

Further landscape themes have been introduced. Morvah – Field Forms (mixed media on paper) reflects the Iron Age field patterns of the West Penwith peninsular. Lozenge shapes are stacked high with a mere suggestions of granite or horizon. In contrast Enigma (oil on canvas) at first glance is reminiscent of a city skyline but was in fact inspired by the mature trees lining the drive to my studio. Their form dissolved by early morning light, transposed onto canvas by complex layers of knifed and brushed oil paint. The light from the rising sun is formally held in place by two squares of misty grey.

This new series of paintings, Elements has allowed me to further explore the strong connection I feel with being outdoors. More importantly, the new direction the work is taking provides me with new ways invigorating the surface and capturing those sensations in paint.

Neil Canning

March 2019

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