Exhibition 2009 - new paintings

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new paintings

Memories tag along
familiar paths explored as a lad,
re-treading as a man;
stamping a love of nature
back into the earth,
into each brush-stroke;
patterns in paint,
patterns in time.

For Paul Evans, his paintings lock personal memories onto the canvas. Each year he returns to old haunts to re-tread those paths began in childhood and nourish his love of nature. Captured by pencil, paint or ink on site, those routes and places are absorbed slowly by Paul as time and familiarity reveal new secrets. This year, he has spent three weeks based at Dollops Wood in Suffolk, immersed in the colour and scent of bluebells. “Something of each day injects itself in to the paint…the smells, the sounds…and infuses into the painting to make each one totally unique. I was privileged to hear the unmistakeable song of the nightingale and the first call of a distant cuckoo whilst painting there. I feel that these experiences are held on the canvas, unseen, but part of the visual occasion”.

Memories caught in the colours and the use of the paint are offered to fresh eyes to share that special time. In the exhibition “New Works”, Paul celebrates a life living with and enjoying nature in all weathers, from winter ponds lit by glinting ice; the grey mercury sea, gentle yet brooding at Aldeburgh; expansive fields of joyous red poppies near Felsham or scented lakes of bluebells stitched with lime; hay bales sitting in the countryside like transient standing stones; the River Stour washing through Sudbury water meadows, reflecting trees and light in mirror stillness or the quirky shoreline at Dungeness, where boats are beached next to sea-washed iron, rope and driftwood….all lovingly recorded for the future.

Subject maters wind in and out of focus, re-appearing, re-worked, weaving back in time and absorbing new discoveries to enrich and re-new. Paul’s journey continues….

Back in the studio
the canvas waits to catch the day:
green is spattered with cobalt,
drenched in the thick perfume of hyacinth.
From the painted trees,
a nightingale sings and,
among the studies and sketches
the distant cuckoo calls.

Alison Englefield, September 2009

To buy the painting of your choice please telephone the gallery.

There will be a further selection available in the gallery when the Exhibition opens on 7th November.

Exhibition open daily
Saturday 7th - Sunday 29th November 2009

01787 249451

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