LIEKE RITMAN - E I G H T Y

Lieke Ritman ‘EIGHTY’

12 th March - 9 th April

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Lieke Ritman’s career as an artist is one enriched by international study, and a lifelong engagement with the art and artists of St Ives. Lieke, now in her 80th year, was born in the Netherlands. She studied interior design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and in 1968 she was invited to stay in St Ives by artists Douglas Portway and Betty Holman.

Captivated by the beauty and special light of Cornwall, she stayed, setting herself up as a picture framer and working with leading British Modernists such as Patrick Heron, Wilhelmina Barnes Graham, Brian Pearce and Kate Nicholson. This exposure to such influential painting and print became an informal education of sorts, inspiring her to her own career as an artist. In the early 1970s Lieke 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. Working from her studio in Penwith, Lieke creates semi-abstracted paintings and prints inspired by her early morning walks along the 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.

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LIST OF WORKS :

1 - ‘Sand Palette’, mixed media, 86.5x59cm - £1850 2. ‘Sky Reflecting Incoming Tide’, mixed media, 90.5x122.5cm - £5000 3. ‘Cross Current’, mixed media, 46x61cm - £1100 4. ‘Calm Morning’, mixed media, 48x61cm, £1100 5. ‘When the Tide is Out’, mixed media, 58x69cm, £5000 6. ‘Going Out to Sea’, mixed media, 51x84cm, £1500 7. ‘Blue Pool’, mixed media, 27x59.5cm, £850 8. ‘Coming in or Going out’, mixed media, 68x61cm, £1300 9. ‘Fast Flowing Stream’, mixed media, 50.5x51.5cm, £985 10. - ‘Night Ripple’, mixed media, 101x122cm, £5500 11. - ‘Off Shore Winds’, mixed media, 51x91.50cm, £1850 12. ‘Taking Flight’, mixed media, 43x60.5cm, £1100 13. ‘Porthkidney Sands’, mixed media, 43x51cm, £995 14. ‘Porthkidney Sands II’, 42x50.5cm, £995 15. ‘Reeds and Reflections’, mixed media, 59x61cm, £1200 16. ‘Porthkidney Sands IV’, mixed media, 51.5x60.5cm, £995 17. ‘Sand and Pebbles’, mixed media, 55.60.5cm, £995 18. ‘Through the Fields to the Sea’, mixed media, 69 x 58cm, £1100 19. ‘When the Tide is Out (Hayle Estuary), mixed media, 104x122cm, £520 20. ‘Estuary Mud’, mixed media, 101.5x104cm, £4500

Front cover - ‘La Mer’, mixed media, 45x51cm - £950 Reverse cover - ‘Path Through the Moors’, mixed media, 27x59.5cm, £850

Please see Lieke’s full collection via our website www.newcraftsmanstives.com

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