THE PADSTOW STUDIO
Press release
Sarah Adams
Preview: an opportunity to see the latest work by landscape painter Sarah Adams
in the context of her studio.
5th July - 1 September 2012
As seen on BBC Country Tracks and Countryfile.
After a highly successful show at the Maas
Gallery last year, Adams has returned to work
on the North Cornwall coast from her
workspace in Padstow. The new paintings
depict aspects of local geology and rock
formations, the changing light and tidal
conditions. Detailed observational works on
site, some made from a boat moored offshore,
are gradually transformed into large, studio
paintings.
A selection of the new pieces will be exhibited
at the gallery throughout the summer, along
with the artist’s sketchbooks, drawings, oil
studies and other works in progress.
Other Cornwall based artists represented in
the gallery downstairs include Chris Thomas,
Rachel Budd, Phil Naylor, Lynn Golden and
Kim Bentley (see list and images below).
Sarah Adams, Chapel Porth: quartz, oxides, slate, oil on linen, 120 x 120 cm
For further press information, including interviews and high resolution photography,
please contact Sarah Adams at sarah.padstowstudio@mac.com
Thursday Friday Saturday
11 - 1 2 - 5 or by appointment
t +44 (0)1841 533777
www.padstowstudio.co.uk
THE PADSTOW STUDIO 30 DUKE STREET PADSTOW PL28 8AB CORNWALL
THE PADSTOW STUDIO Press release, continued
Gallery artists, Summer 2012
Phil Naylor is Senior Lecturer at University
College Falmouth, Program Leader Foundation
and Award Leader BA Drawing. He studied
under Tim Mara as a postgraduate at Chelsea
School of Art, and has exhibited widely
nationally and internationally. ‘Lift ground ceramic’
is one of an exciting series of monotypes,
drawings and etchings which reconstruct the
landscape with contour lines, geological
references and artifacts.
Chris Thomas has spent the past thirty years
making paintings of the cottage and village
where he lives, on a dramatic stretch of the
North Cornwall coast between Boscastle and
Tintagel. The works produced are evocative and
intense, recording corners of his garden, the
surrounding fields, cliffs and the sea in all
weathers and seasons.
Kim Bentley is inspired by people-watching on
the beaches around Padstow. Her pieces are a
combination of embroidery and fabric ink on silk
taffeta. Best known for her work as one half of
the textile design partnership Bentley & Spens,
represented in the V & A and many other fashion
and interiors collections, including Paul Smith
and Liberty, Kim escapes to Cornwall whenever
she can and takes her airedale off to the beach for
a run and another chance to gather ideas.
THE PADSTOW STUDIO
Thursday Friday Saturday
t +44 (0)1841 533777
30 DUKE STREET PADSTOW PL28 8AB CORNWALL
11 - 1 2 - 5 or by appointment
www.padstowstudio.co.uk