Alice Mumford RWA David Simon Contemporary Award
2 - 30 November 2018
4 Bartlett Street, Bath, BA1 2QZ Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm (Closed Wednesday and Sunday)
T: 01225 460189 E: gallery@davidsimoncontemporary.com www.davidsimoncontemporary.com
In Autumn last year The Royal West of England Academy held its 165th Annual Open Exhibition, featuring work by emerging and established painters. The David Simon Contemporary Award was given to Alice Mumford, after singling out her painting from a selection of over 600 works of art. This solo exhibition features twenty-four new paintings, giving a strong and focused selection which have been a year in the making. Alice Mumford, a graduate of Camberwell School of Art, Southwark College of Art and Dartington Hall, has been based in Cornwall for the past 30 years. An admirer of Bonnard, Matisse and Winifred Nicholson, Mumford takes full advantage of the particular Cornish light and is known for her extreme competence in interpreting this through her favoured still lifes and interior subjects. Professor Richard Demarco CBE explains what he enjoys about her work – “Her brush strokes animate the surface of paper, canvas and board. The light of day is a basic and integral part of creation. Alice Mumford sees it as a blessing. Her chosen objects are certainly not still. They have a shimmering quality suggesting almost imperceptible movement.” Alice paints as if there is a light coming from within the canvas, and in seeing the work in the flesh, one appreciates her skill in handling paint in this mysterious way.
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Rose in a Glass oil on board 15 x 20cm £690
Roses and a Bowl of Peaches oil on board 15 x 20cm £690
Beech Leaves and Apple Blossom oil on canvas 60 x 60cm ÂŁ3,950 5
Cornish Dresser I oil on canvas 76 x 61cm £4,450
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Cornish Dresser II oil on canvas 76 x 61cm £4,450
Letter Box Red and Pink Geranium oil on canvas 51 x 41cm £2,500
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Cobalt Shadow oil on canvas laid on board 61 x 76cm £4,450
The Studio Room, Portscatho oil on canvas 61 x 76cm £4,450
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Two Greens oil on canvas 30 x 25cm £1,150
The Turquoise Square oil on canvas laid on board 38 x 38cm £1,950
The Turquoise Wall and Red Roses oil on canvas laid on board 38 x 38cm £1,950 11
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Annunciation oil on canvas 100 x 100cm £7,000
New Leaves, Lazarus oil on canvas 100 x 100cm £7,000 13
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Fresh Weather Outside oil on board 20 x 30cm £800
Light Shadows oil on board 20 x 30cm £800
Spring Morning oil on canvas 46 x 36cm ÂŁ2,280 15
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Raking Light, Polgean oil on canvas 70 x 70cm £4,580
Warm Early Summer, Polgrean oil on canvas 70 x 100cm £6,250
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The Striped Jug and Buttercups oil on canvas 25 x 30cm £1,150
The Dresser and Bill Marshall’s Yellow Slipware Jugs oil on canvas laid on board 38 x 58cm £2,850
Bill Marshall’s Yellow Slipware Jugs oil on canvas laid on board 38 x 38cm £1,950
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Reflected Studio oil on board 20 x 30cm £800
The Blue and White Ginger Pot oil on canvas 20 x 30cm £800
The Pale Blue Chair in the Studio Window oil on board 20 x 30cm £800
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4 Bartlett Street, Bath, BA1 2QZ T: 01225 460189 E: gallery@davidsimoncontemporary.com www.davidsimoncontemporary.com