PRESS RELEASE
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Caroline Cleave | Featured Artist
1st- 30thAugust 2021
Caroline Cleave |Hedgerow
Throughout August, Whitewater Contemporary presents a summer collection by Featured Artist Caroline Cleave.Caroline has lived and worked in Cornwall for over thirty years and is part of a family with a 400-year history in the fishing village of Port Isaac. She is well known for her contemporary paintings and handmade prints of coastal flora and sea life, which are inspired by her passion for nature, sustainability and the importance of the rural fishing economy.
Over the last 18 months, in response to the difficulties and limitations placed on our daily lives, Caroline has spent her time observing nature at close quarters, at a slower pace and on a more intimate level. The resulting body of work is a celebration of humanity's relationship with nature, and the many ways it has sustained us all through arduous months of lockdown. In particular, the emotionally uplifting return of spring is detailed in her images of snowdrops, tree blossom, burgeoning hedgerows and bright Cornish gorse, which the artist has created as a metaphor for joy, optimism and our emergence from the dark winter of Covid.
Also included are her much-loved paintings of lobsters, crabs, fish and other sea creatures, packed tightly together and touching to celebrate ideas of togetherness, and reflecting her love for the North Cornwall coast, its wild landscape and its precious rural communities.
Whitewater Contemporary, The Parade, Polzeath, PL27 6SR.
www.whitewatercontemporary.co.uk | art@whitewatercontemporary.co.uk
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Print Ready 300dpi images for press use:
CAROLINE CLEAVE Hedgerow
Editors Notes
Whitewater Contemporary
Whitewater Contemporary specialises in painting, print, sculpture, studio ceramics and craft by Cornwall's leading contemporary artists, all on show at our beautiful ocean front space in Polzeath, Cornwall. The gallery's sister venue, Whitewater Gallery, which is situated next door, offers an extensive collection of limited edition prints, photography, pottery and handcrafted jewellery.
Whitewater Contemporary, The Parade, Polzeath, Cornwall PL27 6SR. Tel: 01208 869301art@whitewatercontemporary.co.uk|www.whitewatercontemporary.co.uk
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
