PRESS RELEASE

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Kerry Harding | Krowji

Beside The Wave London

with Imogen Bone, Alasdair Lindsay, Amy Albright, Lizzy Bridges, Elisa McLeod, Siobhan Purdy and Joanne Reed.

10 to 29 September

Private View | Friday 9th September 6-8pm

 Kerry Harding | Newhams Tree | Oil on Canvas

Beside The Wave London presents contemporary landscape painter Kerry Harding as part of an exhibition of new work by eight artists from Cornwall's respected Krowji studios.

A graduate of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University and later Falmouth College of Art, Kerry Harding's semi-abstracted, occasionally surreal paintings reflect the artist's intense engagement with landscape. Exploring texture and physicality by way of a highly process led, responsive approach to working, old and new canvases are stained, masked, painted, sanded or stripped back with thinners as the image takes shape. Revisiting favourite viewpoints throughout the year, Harding responds to seasonal changes and new, incidental details in an otherwise familiar landscape, combining conflicting realities such as winter sky and summer light, flattened shape and detailed depth of field with other random, process-led oddities. The result is a pleasingly disconcerting collection of images which exploit the increasingly fluid boundary between figurative and abstract painting, on show as part of a wider collection of landscape inspired work by Krowji artists.

Situated in the impressive former Redruth Grammar School in Cornwall's industrial heartland, Krowji has now become the county's largest creative hub and is home to a wealth of contemporary artists and craftspeople. Kerry Harding is one of eight painters within this exhibition to have been specially selected to introduce London to the wealth of artistic talent from within the Krowji studio group, including recent Falmouth University MA graduate Imogen Bone, award-winning artist Alasdair Lindsay, and showing with the gallery for the first time, painters Amy Albright, Lizzy Bridges, Elisa McLeod, Siobhan Purdy and Joanne Reed.

Works will be available to view online at www.beside-the-wave.co.uk. To receive an invitation to the preview evening, where artists from the group will be in attendance, contact Beside The Wave London, 41 Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill, London, NW1 8LS | 0207 722 4161 |gallery@beside-the-wave.co.uk|www.beside-the-wave.co.uk. Opening times: Monday to Saturday, 10am - 6pm; Sunday 12pm - 5pm.

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Kerry Harding, Newhams Tree 

Kerry Harding

Kerry Harding is a contemporary landscape painter and works from her studio at Cornwall's Krowji Art Studios. A graduate of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University and later Falmouth College of Art, she has exhibited in the UK, Australia, America and South Africa. Having previously lived and worked in London and Cape Town, South Africa, she now lives in Cornwall with her husband and two sons.

Kerry Harding | Studio W23a, Krowji Art Studios, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ | 07531 116004 | hardingkerry@yahoo.com |www.kerryharding.co.uk

Beside The Wave

Established in 1989, Beside The Wave is one of Cornwall's best known and well established contemporary art galleries with an international following of collectors. The gallery opened a second space, Beside the Wave London, in Primrose Hill, London in 2015. Art works are predominantly rooted in the landscape; Cornwall's rich coast, countryside, towns and villages providing the inspiration for much of the work that we show. In addition, a number of our artists focus on paintings of place in a wider sense, including interiors and still lifes.

Beside The Wave London, 41 Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill, London, NW1 8LS | 0207 722 4161 |gallery@beside-the-wave.co.uk|www.beside-the-wave.co.uk| Opening Times Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm and 12pm - 5pm on Sundays

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