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Press Release | LIEKE RITMAN at EIGHTY | New Craftsman Gallery, 12 March - 9 Apr

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Lieke Ritman | Eighty

12 March - 9 April 2022

Artist Lieke Ritman, photographed February 2022

New Craftsman St Ives presents an exhibition of work by Dutch born artist Lieke Ritman. Now in her 80th year, Lieke studied interior design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and came to Cornwall in 1968, captivated by the beauty and special light of the area. Her subsequent exposure to the work of British Modernists such as Patrick Heron, Wilhelmina Barnes Graham, Brian Pearce and Kate Nicholson inspired and influenced her own career as an artist. In the early 1970s she was elected as a Member of the Penwith Society of Arts, and in 1985 she was invited by Mary ‘Boots' Redgrave to exhibit her work at the New Craftsman for the first time, a professional association that has lasted almost forty years. Lieke continues to work today at her studio in St Ives, creating semi-abstracted paintings and prints inspired by her early morning walks along the many beautiful beaches and coastal and moorland paths of West Cornwall. Through simple compositions, textural marks and a distinctive, glowing palette, her works express the unique atmosphere of Cornwall's radiant Atlantic coast, its shifting white sands and shimmering blue ocean.

Cross Current| Lieke Ritman

Lieke Ritman will be on show from12 March to 19 April at New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore St, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1HE,info@newcraftsmanstives.com, www.newcraftsmanstives.com

 

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Lieke Ritman photographed Feb 2022
 
LIEKE RITMAN Cross Current


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