Judy Buxton

Judy Buxton watermark

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JUDY BUXTON 4 - 20 DECEMBER 2018

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overleaf: detail Windowsill Objects oil on canvas 80 x 100cm

Emerging Creekbanks oil on canvas 120 x 120cm

watermark “Painting is like a conversation with myself, like a brush mark, swipe or scrape of the palette knife, relating to the next mark or perhaps akin to a composer finding each note, part of a harmony, or a sequence of notes and to the whole symphony of colour and sound�.

Sitting alone by the waters edge for hours at a time, shading myself from the heat of the sun, the circle of my paints and boards creating a nest around me. The sensations of sound, light and stillness fill my head, eyes and body, absorbing all whilst making marks in paint. The oil paint is applied in layers wet onto dry and wet into wet. A stretch of creek, an expanse of sky, an infinity of space, another aspect, thought or reflection in time revealed on an eight inch panel.

The thrill of painting live allows for nature’s moods to play out, everything in a state of flux. Clouds change and hover over water, reflections emerge and fade, incoming and receding tides create sandbanks which appear out of the water in vivid pastel warm tones later to be submerged and disappear. Light creates marks on the water surface, colour reflected in painterly strokes, flecks and stabs of paint. The blue of the sky at one moment deep cobalt and changing to another blue, turquoise hue.

Like a battle taking place on the surface, freefalling for a while off the cliff edge, at a point it feels like all the marks are hanging in the air just waiting to fall into place and gradually get distilled into an image. Where it ends up is not something over which I have complete control, but at some stage the painting is rescued.

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Cornish Sunflowers II oil on canvas - 120 x 120cm

Studio Hydrangeas I (blue/violet) oil on canvas -100 x 120cm

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Creek Morning Mist oil on canvas - 103 x 127cm

Creek Reflections (red bark) oil on canvas - 120 x 120cm

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Creek Early Morning Reflection oil on board - 20 x 31cm

Reflected Creek Banks I oil on board - 20 x 31cm

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Clouds Reflected oil on board - 23 x 31cm

Summer Roses (Clies) oil on canvas - 80 x 80cm

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Creek, Distant Mountains with Powerboat I oil on canvas - 40 x 40cm

Creek, Distant Mountains with Powerboat II oil on canvas - 40 x 40cm

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Creek Banks Flickering Light I oil on board - 31 x 46cm

Treebanks oil on canvas - 103 x 127cm

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Windowsill Objects oil on canvas - 80 x 100cm

Windowsill with Roses (Merrymeet I) oil on board - 61 x 61cm

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 Tree bank (waters edge II) oil on board - 20 x 26cm

 Tree bank (waters edge I) oil on board - 20 x 26cm

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Creek Water, turquoise & ochre [diptych] oil on canvas - 40 x 80cm

 Trees (waters edge III) oil on board - 18 x 23cm

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Creek Banks Flickering Light II oil on board - 31 x 46cm

Reflected Creek Banks II oil on board - 23 x 30cm

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Caervallack Garden Flowers oil on canvas - 100 x 120cm

Cornish Sunflowers I oil on canvas - 120 x 120cm

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Water Passage (red ochre) oil on canvas - 103 x 127cm

Cobalt Sky Reflected II oil on canvas - 121 x 135cm

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Green Kayak oil on board - 18 x 23cm

Lone Paddle Boarder oil on board - 20 x 26cm

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Winter Studio Still Life oil on canvas - 100 x 120cm

Windowsill Objects with Roses (Merrymeet II) oil on canvas - 80 x 80cm

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Water Light [diptych] oil on canvas - 120 x 240 cm

Drifting Boat oil on board - 23 x 31cm

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Creek Afternoon Tide oil on board - 23 x 30cm

Creekshore with Eucalyptus oil on board - 21 x 36cm

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BIOGRAPHY 1961

1987-90 1990-93

Born Sydney Australia Falmouth College of Art Fine Art (BA Hons) Royal Academy Schools (PG RA Dip)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1996

1997

1998 1999 2000

2001 2002

2004 2005 2006

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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2015

2016

2018

The Oxford Gallery, Oxford Thornton-Beven Arts, London The Oxford Gallery, Oxford New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge Messums Fine Art, London Beaux Arts, Bath Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall ‘Celtic Land & Sea’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall ‘Reflected Landscape’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire ‘Light Pools’, Thackeray Gallery, London ‘Drawn from the Ancestral’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire ‘Under the Surface’, Thackeray Gallery, London ‘What is Revealed’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire New Craftsman, St Ives, Cornwall ‘Luminescence’, Thackeray Gallery, London ‘Twofold’, Lemon Street, (with Jeremy Annear) Truro, Cornwall Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Monmouth, Wales ‘Cascade’, Thackeray Gallery, London ‘watermark’, Thackeray Gallery, London

PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS

1993 Guardian Newspaper Exhibition, selected by Ed Nite, RA Magazine London Underground, poster campaign for Royal Academy Summer Season

(with David Hockney and Pissaro) 1997 Financial Times, Review by William Packer NatWest Art Prize catalogue, ‘The Indestructible Art’ by Brian Robertson 1999 Inside Cornwall, ‘Cornish Setting for Interior Landscapes’ 2000 Catching the Wave, Art and Artists in Cornwall, Halsgrove Press 2003 Financial Times, ‘Hunting Art Prizes’ by William Packer, Galleries, Pip Palmer Cornwall Today, Editor’s Choice The Guardian, ‘Modern Turners, Living on the Edge’ by Simon Edge & Jessica Lack 2005 Cornwall Today, Art Today 2006 A Wild and Free Lizard, Peta-Jane Field, Inside Cornwall Preview: Cornish Art in 2006, Peta-Jane-Field, Inside Cornwall 2007 The Times, ‘The Knowledge’ (Sept 8-14), ‘New Face of Cornish Art’ by Laura Gascoigne Galleries, ‘Thumbnails’, Nicholas Usherwood St Ives 1975 – 2005 Art Colony in Transition, by Peter Davies,

St Ives Printing & Publishing Company 2008 Cornwall Today The Cornishman, Frank Ruhrmund 2009 Galleries, ‘Thumbnails’ Nicholas Usherwood 2010 The Sunday Times Magazine 2011 Life by Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor, Delfina, London 2012 A Living Space by Kit Kemp, Hardie Grant Books Art in Cornwall by Michael Bird, Alison Hodge Publishers 2014 The Sunday Times 2016 Unmissable Events, Country Life ‘Lightscapes & water’ Interview by Adriana Dredge, Wall Street 2017 ‘Inside Aladdin’s Cave’ Interview with Alex Wade Arts Editor Cornwall Today (March)

‘Rose Hilton and Friends’ 50 years in Cornwall, Tremenheere Gallery, Cornwal 2018 IMS Charity Auction (catalogue forward by Nicholas Serota) 39

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 Commissions include the cruise ship The Crystal Serenity

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