Judy Buxton: "Wild Spaces"

© Thackeray Gallery 2020 Photography by Steve Tanner

JUDY BUXTON Wild Spaces

1 – 17 December 2020

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Wild Spaces This year after lock down ended I needed to get back to my source of strength, away from the closed-in space of house and studio, I revisited Poltesco on the Lizard Peninsular which had been the inspiration, catalyst for paintings some twenty years ago. During these years I had worked on a series of plein-air paintings of the cove which were worked up into bigger studio paintings.

Once again, as if no time had passed, I found myself sitting on the same hard pebbles of all those years before, alone with the endless space of sea, sky, air, rocks and cliff occasionally visited by wild ponies for company making their way down onto the beach or peering over the cliff.

The landscape filled me with new hope for existence, it washed over me, my senses heightened by my new sense of freedom, nature had not complied with the rules and was just as vital and unpredictable as it ever was. I worked quickly and urgently, with palette knife and brushes. A balancing act on the serpentine pebbles with the wind flicking paint around the air.

With a new impetus and passion, my creative batteries fully charged, I went back into the studio and embarked on a new series of paintings inspired by the elemental forces of nature, untamed landscape of weather, shifting clouds, seafoam and tidal flux.

Counteracting the rugged edge of the Cornish coastline, the inland verdant hedgerows bounding the fields and lanes are another source of inspiration. Having fractured my pelvis in a riding accident the previous summer and unable to sit in the landscape or carry paints, I found myself pushing a wheelbarrow, come walking frame, around my fields, picking wildflowers from the native rambling hedgerows while my inquisitive equine friends were grazing. Carted into my studio at different times over the spring, summer and autumn months; foxgloves, campion, cow-parsley, meadowsweet, honeysuckle, thistle, briar rose, hemp, montbretia‌overflowed on my painting table and onto canvas.

This practise of bringing the landscape into the studio has continued resulting in these latest hedgerow paintings, they also act as a counter point to the quiet studio still-lives of flowers and studio objects, which are more singular and reflective.

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COVES

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Incoming Tide Green Hue oil on canvas – 80 x 80cm

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Silent Shore oil on canvas – 120 x 150cm

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Serpentine Shore I oil on canvas – 25 x 30cm

Serpentine Shore II oil on canvas – 25 x 30cm

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Sea Vista (Summer) oil on board – 20 x 61cm

Goonhilly Wetland, Horizon oil on board – 20 x 61cm

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Untamed Sea oil on canvas – 120 x 150cm

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Shifting Clouds over a Grey Sea oil on canvas – 80 x 80cm

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Serpentine Light I oil on canvas – 122 x 122cm

Serpentine Light II oil on canvas – 122 x 122cm

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HEDGEROW

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Hedgerow III (Montbretia Sparks) oil on canvas – 120 x 120cm

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Hedgerow II (Late Summer) oil on canvas – 120 x 120cm

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Hedgerow Summer I (Foxgloves and Campion) oil on canvas – 120 x 120cm

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STILL LIFES

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Garden Roses III oil on canvas – 100 x 100cm

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Wilting Sunflowers oil on canvas – 80 x 80cm

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Garden Roses II oil on canvas – 100 x 100cm

Garden Roses I oil on canvas – 100 x 100cm

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Windowsill objects and Hellebores II oil on canvas – 100 x 100cm

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Garden Roses (Spanish) II oil on board – 61 x 61cm

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Studio Roses oil on canvas – 62 x 66cm

Garden Roses (Spanish) I oil on board – 61 x 61cm

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Windowsill Jars with wilting Narcissi II oil on canvas – 60 x 60cm

Windowsill Jars with wilting Narcissi I oil on canvas – 80 x 80cm

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CREEKS

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Tidal Creek (Distant Shore) oil on board – 40 x 61cm

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Creek Reflection (Morning) I oil on board – 40 x 61cm

Creek Reflection II oil on board – 40 x 61cm

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HORSES

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Grace oil on canvas – 120 x 120cm

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Listening II oil on canvas – 120 x 120cm

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BIOGRAPHY 1961 1987-90 1990-93 1995 1996/97 1995 1996-00 2014-15

Born Sydney Australia Falmouth College of Art Fine Art (BA Hons) Royal Academy Schools (PG RA Dip) Elected member of the Newlyn Society of Artists Elected Newlyn Society of Artists Committee Visiting lecturer, Falmouth College of Arts, Fine Art Degree Chapel House Studios Courses Advisory Board member for MA in Landscape Architecture RCA, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS FROM 1996 – PRESENT: Thackeray Gallery, London; The Oxford Gallery, Oxford; Thornton-Beven Arts, London; New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall; Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge; Messums Fine Art, London; Beaux Arts, Bath; Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; New Craftsman, St Ives, Cornwall; Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall; Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Monmouth, Wales GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Judy Buxton exhibits widely in many mixed shows throughout the UK AWARDS & PRIZES: Judy Buxton has received numerous Awards & Prizes from 1992 to the current day.

MAJOR COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS: Garden Court Cambers, London; Godolphin Racing Stables; Richard Hannon Racing; Tresco Estate; The Swiss Bank; Commissions include the cruise ship The Crystal Serenity; Connaught Hotel; Falmouth College of Art; Fenton Arts Trust; Firmdale Hotels; Guinness Collection PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS: Guardian Newspaper Exhibition; RA Magazine; Financial Times; NatWest Art Prize catalogue; Inside Cornwall; Catching the Wave; Cornwall Today; The Times; Galleries Magazine; Art Colony in Transition; The Cornishman; The Sunday Times Magazine; Life by Will Gompertz; A Living Space by Kit Kemp; Hardie Grant Books Art in Cornwall by Michael Bird; Country Life; Art & Antiques ‘Back to Nature’; The Sunday Times; Wall Street International Magazine; IMS Charity Auction (catalogue forward by Nicholas Serota)

Front Cover: “Hedgerow III (Montbretia Sparks)” – oil on canvas – 120 x 120cm Back Cover: “Garden Roses II” – oil on canvas – 100 x 100cm

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