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Rob Pittam | Still Life Paintings

4^thto 17^thMay 2024

Rob Pittam |Mackerel, Bread and Paper Bag

For the very first time this May, New Craftsman Gallery present a collection of work by painter Rob Pittam. As a child Rob spent family holidays in Cornwall, where brilliant sun-drenched summer days on the beach inspired a lifelong awareness of the emotional power of light. As a still life painter, Rob's focus is on the way Cornwall's unique light sculpts everyday forms. Strongly influenced by the works of Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Rob aims for a certain quality of stillness in the tone, texture and composition of his paintings that give a heightened status to his subjects. His works often include fish, whose perfectly evolved forms offer colour, pattern, texture, reflectivity and three-dimensional shapes that ‘sculpt' light and shade. They can also be read as metaphors for the tranquillity of a life spent beside the sea.

Rob works in a classical technique, using the translucency of acrylic paint over a pencil drawing and monochrome underpainting on board, building tonal depth through multiple glazes of colour. His paintings are also varnished and float framed within a dark grey deep wood moulding.

Rob Pittam studied art and illustration at Rugby College, Swindon College and Kingston upon Thames University. He has exhibited in Cornwall, the Cotswolds, Bath and London, and his works are held in private collections in the United States, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Scotland and the Shetland Islands.

New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore St, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1HE

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ROB PITTAM Mackerel, Bread and Paper Bag
 

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

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