Lynne Cartlidge and Andy Waite Catalogue

Lynne Cartlidge & Andy Waite 5 - 29 May 2017

david simon

contemporary

david simon

contemporary 4 Bartlett Street, Bath, BA1 2QZ E: gallery@davidsimoncontemporary.com T: 01225 460189 www.davidsimoncontemporary.com

Here are two painters shown together for the first time, whose approaches to painting share a number of common elements. Lynne Cartlidge, whose main focus is on the still life, uses the subject as an endless source of experimentation with light and shadow. Andy Waite’s paintings of remembered landscapes, drawing upon the tradition of the Romanticists, uses the handling of the subject to reflect his own wandering moods. There is a softness and a warmth to both of these painters’ work. Images emerge out of built up layers and a natural light pours over tablecloths and through the delicate petals of flowers, through heavy cloud and reflections on still waters.

For Lynne Cartlidge ‘colour, mark and tone offer a metaphorical language especially when everyday rational judgement is momentarily suspended’, she explains. ‘I’m fascinated in painting as a visual language that speaks in metaphors as poetry does for the language of words.’ Her work is influenced by painters such as Bonnard as well as compositions encountered in Oriental art, having spent time in China. Andy Waite paints from quickly worked field sketches and photographs back at his studio. These references are developed with a focus on particular suggestion of colour and form, sometimes changing in mood or composition, ‘so although based on real places the paintings are becoming, increasingly, landscapes of the soul’.

This emotive exhibition features entirely new work that demonstrates the impressive, painterly approach by two semi-figurative painters and is a collection best appreciated ‘in the flesh’.

Willow Vase with Lime Slices Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ780 Lynne Cartlidge was born in 1964 in Wellington, New Zealand and lived in Cornwall between 1967 and 1984. She studied art at Falmouth Art College and then Cardiff Art College attaining a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree in 1987 when one of her paintings was selected for the Whitworth Young Contemporaries. More recently she has enjoyed studying with Alice Mumford at the St Ives School of Painting and with Rose Hilton at the Newlyn School of Art.

Pears in a Bowl Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm £780

Embrace Andy Waite oil on canvas 100 x 120cm £3,000

Andy Waite graduated from West Sussex School of Art & Design in 1977 and pursued a successful career in graphic design. He has been painting full-time since 1989. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the United Kingdom and also the United States of America and has held regular solo exhibitions in Bath, London, Hampshire and Sussex since 1992.

An Ounce Of Light (triptych) Andy Waite oil on board 16cm x 48cm ÂŁ500

I Climbed a Hill to Lose Myself Andy Waite oil on canvas 100 x 120cm £3,000

A Blackbird’s Song At Twilight Andy Waite oil on board 25 x 60cm £600

Blue Anemones with Lime Slices II Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm £750

Witch Hazel and Mussel Shells II Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ780

Gardens on the Isle of Ischia Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 20 x 25cm £450

Grapes in a Saucer Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 13 x 17cm £360

Witch Hazel, Lime and Willow Vase Lynne Cartlidge oil on linen 55 x 65cm ÂŁ1,500

Walking to Church in Autumn Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 20 x 25cm ÂŁ450

Silvered Lake Andy Waite oil on canvas 70 x 70cm £1,400

Cloudburst Andy Waite oil on canvas 100 x 100cm £2,750

Pomegranates with Cyclamen and Mussel Shells Lynne Cartlidge oil on linen 71 x 86cm ÂŁ3,250

Witch Hazel and Mussel Shells I Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ780

Faerie Andy Waite oil on board 30 x 30cm £500

In Autumn’s Sweet Breath Andy Waite oil on board 30 x 30cm £500

Meadowsweet Andy Waite oil on board 30 x 35cm £550

How You Loved the Sea Andy Waite oil on board 20 x 23cm £400

Still Life with Broderie Anglaise Cloth Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ750

Cyclamens and Pomegranates with a Blue Jug Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ750

Under Summer Thunder Andy Waite oil on board 50 x 50cm £850

Nocturne Andy Waite oil on board 50 x 50cm £850

St Ives Window II Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 20 x 30cm £485

St Ives Window I Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm £750

The Sky Cradles the Lake Andy Waite oil on board 30 x 30cm £500

Wet Earth (diptych) Andy Waite oil on canvas 50 x 100cm £1,450

The Constant Sea Andy Waite oil on canvas 100 x 120cm £3,000

The Kiss of a Cloud for Borrowed Light Andy Waite oil on canvas 100 x 100cm £2,750

Pomegranates and Jugs with Broderie Anglaise Cloth Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ750

Apples in Lamplight Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ750

Blue Anemones with Lemon Slices I Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 30 x 40cm ÂŁ750

Violet Flowers in a Jug Lynne Cartlidge oil on board 17 x 15cm £360

david simon

contemporary

4 Bartlett Street, Bath, BA1 2QZ E: gallery@davidsimoncontemporary.com T: 01225 460189 www.davidsimoncontemporary.com