Press Release
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Lanes, Hedgerow and Coast Path
paintings by Emma Jeffryes, with ceramics by Adam Buick
3rdto 30thApril
Emma Jeffryes | Blossom Above the Sea
This Easter, New Craftsman Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by landscape painter Emma Jeffryes, alongside ceramics by leading British maker Adam Buick. Emma's new collection is inspired by the abundance of natural splendour we witnessed in Cornwall during the spring and early summer of Lockdown #1. As roads were silenced, air traffic ceased and the Cornish weather dazzled, Emma's attention was taken by the spectacular unfolding of spring in these unusual circumstances.Accordingly, Emma's paintings take us with her on her daily walks, along lanes and hedgerows overflowing with white hawthorne and yellow gorse, where primroses, snowdrops, bluebells, luscious green foliage and wildflowers merge to create a symphony of colour against a backdrop of clear blue skies and waters. These beautiful paintings celebrate a unique and wondrous moment in nature, one that accompanied the darkest and most difficult months of our recent history.
Adam Buick's newEmergencecollection considers the sea, in particular the boundary between sea and land, and coastal communities whose mutual experience of the sea is a relationship that stretches back thousands of years. Ideas of shared space, beginnings and endings, dreams and horizons, and of our love and fear of the ocean, are all explored in his distinctive and elegant Moon Jar forms, this time with an emphasis on a palette of subtle whites.
Adam Buick | Emergence 1, Porcelain with Porth Lleuog slate and transparent glaze
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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Print Ready 300dpi images for press use:
EMMA JEFFRYES Blossom Above the Sea
ADAM BUICK Emergence 1
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
For further press information or additional images contact Mercedes Smith at Fine Art Communications director@fineartcommunications.co.uk / Tel 07825 270235 / www.fineartcommunications.co.uk