Press Release
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Rebecca Polyblank | Music for Those Who Listen
6thMarch to 27thMarch
New Craftsman Gallery St Ives opens its 2021 exhibition season with a new collection of painting and sculpture by Rebecca Polyblank. TitledMusic For Those Who Listen, the exhibition celebrates the sights and sounds of wild nature that can delight our senses if we only take the time to notice them.
Rebecca lives and works in a remote setting on the edge of Bodmin Moor, and the view from her studio looks out across the ancient landscape of Carne Down. Throughout the seasons she is immersed in nature's changing colours, the flowering and fading of plant life, and the coming and going of all the familiar birds, animals and insects of Cornwall's wild landscape. On daily walks she collects grasses, seedpods, flowers and berries from the hedgerows. Arranging them back at her studio into an assortment of jars, she uses them as subjects in her paintings, with the addition, perhaps, of an imaginary hare, the memory of a tiny bird, or the dream of a passing butterfly. All of nature's beauty and Rebecca's momentary encounters with Cornwall's wild creatures are brought together on paper through her delicate use of line and a palette of shimmering colour washes. In her papier-mâché sculptures, which have the elegance of figurative bronze, Rebecca brings out the unique character of each carefully observed subject: hares, owls and moor ponies are rendered in classic form, and finished to a fine texture that suggests the speckled tones of local granite and Blue Elvin stone.
For further information contact New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore St, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1HE.01736 795652 | info@newcraftsmanstives.com | www.newcraftsmanstives.com
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Editors Notes
New Craftsman St Ives
With an international reputation amongst art and craft collectors for its painting, sculpture and quality studio ceramics, the New Craftsman is regarded as one of the most important spaces for contemporary artists in St Ives. Founded in the mid-1960s by potter Janet Leach, it holds an unrivalled reputation as one of the country's leading art and craft venues. Today the gallery's annual programme of mixed and solo exhibitions continues to support the work of Cornwall's and the UK's very best painters and craftspeople.
New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore Street, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 1HE | Tel: +44 (0)1736 795652 |info@newcraftsmanstives.com|www.newcraftsmanstives.com
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